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EDISON FANG WORKSHOP
EDISON FANG WORKSHOP2025

Visual Identity · 2025

Edison Fang Workshop

Liner notes
A small structure with room to behave.
Visual Identity
PRIMARY MARK / EFW—0103 LEVELS · 01 CONTINUOUS BASELINE
PRIMARY MARK

Evolved in 2025 from the workshop’s original circular emblem, the identity begins with a line arranged into three connected levels. It can be read as a stair, a section, a sequence of rooms or simply a memorable structure—open enough to invite interpretation, disciplined enough to hold the practice together.

Identity in motion · 2026

Let’s give it form.

Three reflections move across a piano-black mark, revealing the full Edison Fang Workshop identity beside its name and the line Let’s give it form. Accompanied by a low, slowly shifting tonal hum; no dialogue.

02 / 07

00:20 · With sound

Archive · 2016—2025

Before the stairs, the workshop lived inside a circle.

Introduced in 2016, the circular emblem carried the practice through its earliest projects. The 2025 redesign does not erase it; it keeps the history visible, then opens the enclosure into structure, rhythm and movement.
Original circular Edison Fang Workshop logo and early identity studies from 2016PREVIOUS TENANT · 2016—2025LEFT THE PREMISES IN GOOD CONDITION.
Original circular mark and early identity studies · 2016

03 / 07 · ORIGINAL MARK

04 · Identity system

One line. Three levels. No fixed reading.

Three open levels suggest a stair, a section or a sequence of rooms. Symbol, stacked and horizontal arrangements share the same structure and the measured rhythm of Source Code Variable Light.
Identity research sheet 1: Edison Fang Workshop primary mark, three levels with spans of 40, 20 and 20 units, and a shared baseline. Set in Source Code Variable Light.
01 / Structure & proportion
Identity research sheet 2: the mark grows through three levels, followed by horizontal and symbol arrangements, Source Code Variable Light specimens, and Let’s give it form.
02 / Arrangements & typography

04 / 07 · IDENTITY SYSTEM

05 · How it behaves

A serious system with a questionable personnel policy.

Motion extends the logic already inside the mark. Every action follows its levels and baseline; humour appears only when that order is briefly interrupted.
  1. 01

    Maintain structural alignment.

    All components report to the same baseline.

  2. 02

    Use the stairs whenever possible.

    The mark has no approved elevator budget.

  3. 03

    Do not leave punctuation unattended.

    Previous incidents remain under investigation.

Line entry test

The mark enters under its own supervision.

One continuous route draws the structure from the ground up, occupies every level and completes the journey without requesting an elevator.

05 / 07 · HOW IT BEHAVES

06 · Practice in use

A proposal. A drawing. A working identity.

The same line introduces a proposal, identifies a drawing set and carries the correspondence around a project. A clear hierarchy gives each document its place in the work.
Measured Light proposal booklet cover and open interior spread, carrying the Edison Fang Workshop identity
01 / Measured Light · proposal booklet
EFW drawing issue set with a charcoal document sleeve and the Virus Salon Meicun first-floor layout, presented on warm-white paper with a compact title block
02 / Drawing issue · Virus Salon, Meicun
Front and back of Edison Fang Workshop business cards, with Edison Fang's name and fictional contact details
03 / Business cards
Warm-white Edison Fang Workshop correspondence envelope and A4 document envelope, aligned on a charcoal surface
04 / Correspondence & document envelopes

06 / 07 · PRACTICE IN USE

07 · After hours

OPENING / 01ENTERING THE PRACTICE
SIGN-OFF / 02TAICHUNG, TAIWAN · © 2026
SERVICE CORRIDOR / 03.brand-mark--taking-the-stairs {
  filed-under: E.B.Y.E;
}

.full-stop--left-without-noticeAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY

Edison Fang Workshop · Identity 2025

Simple enough to draw from memory. Structured enough to hold a whole practice.
07 / 07 · STILL STANDING