Yu Gao
Hi! I’m a graphic designer based in Brooklyn. MorePractice: Motion & Prints
ygao74@pratt.edu
Explore it:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11SGLMZ8-AYDz2uaLAgSdWGU_unhle-1OI229JVhZBfA/edit#gid=0
Special thanks to Prof. Tyler Paige
Regarding the insecurity that cloud storage brings us, mentally, data, or some other sides, I call on people to think of cloud storage as a platform on which they can build websites and maintain them without specialized skills and on which they can share information, communicate, and play.
The project originated with a text version of a manifesto I wrote about cloud storage, and the professor asked us to present the manifesto using the technology we chose.
I built a website on a Google sheet, added some existing information-sharing platforms built on Google Drive, and created some templates to use as references to stimulate the imagination about how cloud storage can be used as a website. For the design part, I used Arial, the default Google Sheet font, and utilized the grid system of changeable lengths and widths in the Google Sheet to create a visual language that is unique to this site.
关于云储存给我们带来的不安全感（情绪上的，数据上的，或是其他方面的），我号召人们把云储存当做一个不需要专业技术就可以搭建网站和维护的平台，在上面尽情分享信息、交流与玩耍。
这个项目起源于一份我写的关于云储存的文字版本的宣言，教授要求我们用自己选择的技术将宣言呈现出来。
我选择在一个Google Sheet上建立了一个网站，加入了一些已有的在google drive上建立的信息分享平台，并且自己制作了一些模板作为参考，旨在激发大家关于云储存如何作为一个网站的想象力。在网站的设计上，我使用了Google Sheet默认的字体Arial，并且利用Google Sheet里可更改长和宽的网格系统，建立了一个只属于这个网站的视觉语言。