Bronze Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design · 2021

X-Hale Campaign Design

by Yiwen Tu

A' Design Award 2021 Bronze Winner in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Awarded April 15, 2021
CLIENT: The International Society for Performing and Visual Arts
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About X-Hale Campaign Design

X-Hale is a campaign design created for a virtual art exhibition. The campaign includes a logo, posters, a banner, a trailer and graphic assets for live streaming. The main visual element is a 2.5D typographic structure. Iridescent colors are used to suggest lightness, flow and mystery. Many items, such as square posters and quote cards, are animated with a calm breathing movement. The materials are prepared for a website and social media in several formats. The campaign supports online conversations between artists and audiences during the pandemic.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: Oh, Not Gallery (a Beijing-based art institution specializing in the promotional art of public spaces) and ISPVA(The International Society for Performing and Visual Arts) present the first major virtual exhibition, X-Hale, with a series of live streaming conversations between artists and audience worldwide. This visual design project includes promotional materials like logo, posters, banner, trailer design, and graphic assets for live streaming.
Dimensions & Packaging: posters 3:4 ratio
Instagram post: square
Instagram story: 9:16 ratio
Youtube banner: varies by device
Tags: X-hale, Graphic Designer, Visual Direction, Campaign, Motion Design, Live Streaming, International Artists, Art And Design During COVID 19
Production Technology: 2.5D typography, Iridescent, photoshop, c4d
Design Challenge: COVID 19 is both the project's biggest challenge as well as the trigger. As Internet remains as the most viable and contingent way of connections nowadays, this exhibition takes this opportunity to invite artists for meaningful and engaging conversations, dialogues, and Q&As to share their thoughts and perspectives around art and its enduring possibilities: its creative agency in making changes, its role as a conceptual catalyst, its capacity to trigger inspirations, ideas, stories, and its therapeutic function for emotional and mental states.
Project Duration: This is an ongoing project starting in July 2020 in New York and Beijing
Operation Flow: Promoted on ISPVA.org and social media platform like Instagram. Live Stream in YouTube, and bilibili. Most of the promotional materials like square posters, quotes are designed in motion. The design aims to create a peaceful breathing movement and fluidity to attract audience's attention.
Research: The exhibition aims to provide a platform where artists can share their thoughts on how the pandemic changes their careers and lives. To some extent, the process of communication is an artistic exploration and design research itself.
Inspiration: The pandemic brought drastic changes in people's lives. As everyone is exploring their ways to cope with the unprecedented situation, new and creative ideas sprung up too. The primary subject is a 2.5D structure, and the designer used Iridescent color to present a sense of lightness, flow, and mystery.
Image Credits: Image #1: Yiwen Tu
Image #2: Shirong Gu
Image #3: Yiwen Tu
Image #4: Yiwen Tu
Image #5: Yiwen Tu, Shirong Gu