Yuli Huang, a Chinese independent musician, released his new album titled "NOW." This album explores his self-awareness, beliefs, truth, and choice. By Yuli's words, his music creation is very flexible. He believes the free connection among lyrics, music, and composing resembles an "inspiration soup" in the universe. Six songs in the album respectively tell six stories of him about dreams, growth, and love. Yuli invited Yijia Xie to design his album as they share similar ideas.

Growing up in China, Yijia deeply loves China's extensive and profound culture. By practicing calligraphy, she understands Chinese characters are not just a carrier of information but also a beautiful art per se. There are thousands of forms of Chinese characters, and each of them is infused with history. As a designer, she is eager to discover more possibilities for the future of Chinese character design. Being invited to participate in creating Yuli's new album is a perfect opportunity for Yijia to explore how to integrate Chinese characters with modern design. In the album design, she takes the most meaningful Chinese character in each song title, like 宇 (Universe),雨 (Rain),信 (Believe),眼(Eyes),月(Moon),星 (Star). Then she experimentally discovers a new creative form merging Chinese characters, collage, and generative coding.

Yijia inserts the elements separately into computer programming and generates thousands of different new graphics. The generative collages are used in the packaging design for the new album. So everyone receives a unique packaging wrap. Then she fuses Yuli's music with these moving collages. Yijia loves experimenting with random collisions and producing mint and exciting things. Mixing traditional elements and modern technology delivers surprising outcomes and also brings balance between randomness and order.