Richard Lin's Archive

As the UI designer at Mei Yuan Art Museum, I was responsible for creating a digital archive for the renowned Taiwanese minimalist artist Richard Lin. The goal was to design an online experience that showcased the full breadth of Lin’s work, while also communicating the philosophical depth behind it. The site provides access to his artworks, documents, exhibition history, biography, and creative timeline — all designed to be explored intuitively across digital devices.

Richard Lin’s visual language is rooted in modernism, his work avoids representational forms, instead using lines, grids, and monochrome palettes to convey precision and stillness. The challenge was to build an interface that didn’t overpower his work, but rather became a quiet extension of it. The design needed to reflect the emotional subtlety beneath the rational structure, while remaining simple and functional for users exploring his archive.

To honour Lin’s approach, I created a minimalist UI system grounded in geometry and visual restraint. The interface uses only three colours, each carefully chosen from his most iconic pieces. His archive is organised into six categories: Oil Painting, Work on Paper, White Series, Moon and Sun Series, Print, and Existence and Variation, allowing users to browse by theme. Each artwork is framed consistently to reinforce a sense of order and balance. When clicked, a clean subpage reveals the piece’s title, creation date, dimensions, and medium. The end result is a quiet, focused browsing experience that mirrors the thoughtful simplicity of Lin’s art.