Title
Iroironairo
Cover&Book Design: I-Hsuan Lin
Editor: Lucien Hsieh
Author: Lucien Hsieh
Iroironairo
Cover&Book Design: I-Hsuan Lin
Editor: Lucien Hsieh
Author: Lucien Hsieh
Description
iroironairo means "various colors. This book originates from a series of photographs taken by Lucien Hsieh during his exchange year in Japan in 2022, capturing different places and moments throughout his stay. Using "color" as the central theme, he connected scattered images with similar hues to reweave a visual memory of his life abroad. The project was first presented in 2023 as a website, where a custom program analyzed the dominant colors in each photo. This allowed viewers to explore the full archive and discover images with similar color palettes—gradually piecing together a visual narrative of his collected memories.
Building on the digital version, he compiled these images into a physical book in 2025, as a way to commemorate the many colors he encountered that year, along with the people and stories that existed alongside.
The cover design echoes the concept of "color," listing all the places he visited and assigning each one a representative hue—taken from the most dominant color in the first photo captured at each location. Before even opening the book, readers are invited to feel the richness of those colors from the cover alone.
《色々な色》（讀作 iroironairo），意指「各式各樣的顏色」。本書源自謝明倫於 2022 年赴日交換留學期間，在不同地點與時刻拍攝的影像。透過「顏色」作為主題，串連色彩相近的零散照片，重新編織出留學生活的視覺記憶。此專案最初於 2023 年以網頁形式發表，運用程式分析每張照片中的顏色，讓觀者能一覽所有影像，並探索擁有相似顏色的照片，拼湊出他留學時所搜集的個人記憶。
iroironairo means "various colors. This book originates from a series of photographs taken by Lucien Hsieh during his exchange year in Japan in 2022, capturing different places and moments throughout his stay. Using "color" as the central theme, he connected scattered images with similar hues to reweave a visual memory of his life abroad. The project was first presented in 2023 as a website, where a custom program analyzed the dominant colors in each photo. This allowed viewers to explore the full archive and discover images with similar color palettes—gradually piecing together a visual narrative of his collected memories.
Building on the digital version, he compiled these images into a physical book in 2025, as a way to commemorate the many colors he encountered that year, along with the people and stories that existed alongside.
The cover design echoes the concept of "color," listing all the places he visited and assigning each one a representative hue—taken from the most dominant color in the first photo captured at each location. Before even opening the book, readers are invited to feel the richness of those colors from the cover alone.
《色々な色》（讀作 iroironairo），意指「各式各樣的顏色」。本書源自謝明倫於 2022 年赴日交換留學期間，在不同地點與時刻拍攝的影像。透過「顏色」作為主題，串連色彩相近的零散照片，重新編織出留學生活的視覺記憶。此專案最初於 2023 年以網頁形式發表，運用程式分析每張照片中的顏色，讓觀者能一覽所有影像，並探索擁有相似顏色的照片，拼湊出他留學時所搜集的個人記憶。
延續網站版本，他於 2025 年將這些影像集結成冊，紀念那年所見過的各式色彩，以及與色彩一同存在過的人與故事。
封面設計呼應「色彩」主題，列出他曾造訪的地點，並擷取各地拍攝的第一張照片中，最鮮明、佔比最多的顏色作為代表。希望讀者在翻開書之前，就能從書封直接感受到豐富的色彩。
