Money Talks Illustration by Chia-Liang Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
IronGraphic· 2021
Money Talks Illustration
Client: Huzhou University
A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
Verified Award Winner
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About Money Talks Illustration
Money Talks is a series of illustrations that comments on corruption within officialdom. The series depicts hundreds of ghosts to represent hidden greed, unspoken rules and the pursuit of fame and fortune. Dark and hideous imagery is set against the positive public image of officials. Each print measures 297 by 420 millimetres and was produced with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The illustrations call for honest government, diligence and justice, while offering viewers an artistic experience.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Money Talks Illustration is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Money Talks Illustration is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Money Talks Illustration is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The officialdom is a pool of deep water, dirty, chaotic and muddy, just like hundreds of ghosts that haunt at night. They are being an official, not seeking benefits for the people, but pursuing fame and fortune. This is a bad social atmosphere. There are unspoken rules everywhere. The ugly state of pursuit of these rights is the source of depraved social psychology. Therefore, the design team think that it is the best to use hundreds of ghosts to embody these twisted and terrifying situation.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width: 297mm x Height: 420mm x Weight: 200gm
- Tags
- Money Talks, Anti-Corruption, With the people in my heart
- Production Technology
- Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Design Challenge
- The most significant challenge was to express our perspectives via visual communication method in illustrations. Therefore, the design team spent a great deal of time studying and finding the way to balance the aesthetic, expression and visual elements at the same time.
- Research
- Money Talks is a condemnation of modern officialdom and social corruption. The series of works are hideous, showing the darkness behind the positive image of officialdom via images of hundreds of ghosts. The design team wanted to tell the officials that they should make every effort to govern, act honestly, be diligent for the people, and uphold justice. The design team hope that people get spiritual encouragement, ideological enlightenment and even spurs on words and deeds while providing people with artistic enjoyment, . This is the desire for honest and justice for modern officialdom in this series.
- Inspiration
- The design concept of Money Talks is derived from some things that people have experienced and seen before and more and more movies and TV series adapted from real events. Based on these and collected data, the design team sort out the general direction through investigation and propose myself. Finally, after discussing and revising with team members, formally confirm the visual sense of officialdom. The Money Talks is just like the name, it is to surface the ugliness and darkness in the officialdom.
- Project Duration
- This project was created and completed between January and June 2020 in Ningbo, China.
- Operation Flow
- This series received a number of positive opinions and were highly acclaimed on many fields. Moreover, numerous people had been touched and they had thought these works will not be forgotten ever.
- Patents
- Copyright©2020 CHIA-LIANG LIN. All rights reserved.
- Team Members
- CHIA-LIANG LIN
CHENG-YI YANG
TUBINJIAN SHEN - Image Credits
- Creative Director: CHIA-LIANG LIN
Art Director: CHENG-YI YANG
Designer: TUBINJIAN SHEN
Illustrator: TUBINJIAN SHEN
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