Day Code L'almanacu Cinese by Wan Fen Chen

Day Code L'almanacu Cinese by Wan Fen Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award di Ferru in Disignu Graficu Competition Category.

FerruGrafica· 2022

Day Code L'almanacu Cinese

by Wan Fen Chen

Client: Maruko Design Studio

A' Design Award di Ferru Winner in Grafica Category

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The Design

About Day Code L'almanacu Cinese

In Taiwan, i calendari sò in più di cuntà a data, puderianu dì l'ora di furtuna è chì i segni di l'animali di u zodiacu deve esse attentu durante quellu ghjornu, secondu u calendariu. Include cose chì puderianu esse ottenute bè oghje è chì a ghjente deve mette da parte per un altru tempu. Quandu guardà u calendariu, Wan Fen Chen pensa sempre: è se Wan Fen Chen traspone l'infurmazioni nantu à u calendariu da e parolle stampate à l'icone? A pagina serebbe maravigliosa è unica dopu a trasposizione è riarrangiamentu. Per quessa, u Codice di u ghjornu - Almanac Chinese hè ghjuntu.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award di Ferru

Day Code L'almanacu Cinese hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru, una ricunniscenza prestigiosa attribuita à i boni disegni chì rispondenu à i requisiti prufessiunali è industriali aspettati da creazioni ben cuncipite. I vincitori di Ferru dimustranu una grande abilità, una alta specializazione, una cumpresa esperta è a capacità creativa di i so creatori. Si aspetta chì Day Code L'almanacu Cinese sia una creazione assai apprezzata, ammirata è cara chì hè pratica è innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru integra e migliori pratiche di u settore è hà caratteristiche tecniche cumpetenti ligate à u sapè fà è à u talentu. Day Code L'almanacu Cinese hè rispettatu per a so meticulosità è hè cuncipitu per furnisce miglioramenti di a qualità di a vita chì aiutanu à fà di u mondu un locu megliu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: On the calendar in Taiwan, in addition to providing information regarding the records of ancestors’ wisdom – lunar calendar. It also tells people to welcome good fortune and avoid bad omens every day. Nevertheless, the information is provided in verbal form. Day Code - Chinese Almanac presents signs transposed from words. It also filtered and deleted some suggestions for incompatibility in the regular lunar calendar and selected reminders suitable for modern people: marriage, business contract, opening a business, moving, etc. to remind them which items are suitable or unsuitable to be done today.
Dimensions & Packaging: w100 mm x d36 mm x h143 mm
Tags: Lunar calendar, calendar, graphic design, vintage, tiles with floral patterns
Production Technology: Risograph and Perfect Binding
Design Challenge: In the digital era and the modern times, few people use printed calendars. It may promote people’s intentions of using printed calendars by adding interesting and functions, such as: enlarging the note section, adding specially designed stickers for reminders, etc. to transform a regular calendar into a diary.
Research: Transpose words into simple and comprehensive graphics Using risograph technology, random derangement, uneven coloring, imperfect and unexpectable printing features adds a vintage feel. Traditional Taiwanese tiles with floral patterns and iron windows are used on the design to add Taiwanese style to the design. Now, the lunar calendar is commonly used by the Taiwanese in daily life. Therefore, in addition to dates of the solar calendar, the lunar calendar, corresponding to the wax and wane of the moon, are displayed completed.
Inspiration: Is today suitable for moving? In the 1960s to 1980s, on the walls of every family in Taiwan, calendars presented by xx companies or oo stores were hanging there. People tore off one page early in the morning to celebrate the coming of a new day. In addition to telling you the date, you could tell the fortune hours and which zodiac animals signs should be careful during that day, according to the calendar. It includes things that could be achieved smoothly today and which ones I should put aside for some other time. On this little piece of paper, many codes of daily life were hidden there.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2022 and finished in December 2022 in Taiwan
Operation Flow: No punch holes on the calendar. Pages are intact. The calendar is placed on a special rack to present a simple setting. On the note column and blanks, reminders of today can be written there. Using the corresponding reminder stickers, users can record things to do, time arrangement, thoughts, wish lists, etc. transforming a calendar into a diary.
Image Credits: Creator & Visuals: Wan Fen, Chen