Day Code Čínský Almanach by Wan Fen Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Železná cena A' Design Award in Grafika Competition Category.
ŽelezoGrafika· 2022
Day Code Čínský Almanach
by Wan Fen Chen
Client: Maruko Design Studio
Železná cena A' Design Award Winner in Grafika Category
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About Day Code Čínský Almanach
Na Tchaj-wanu mají kalendáře kromě vyprávění data i hodiny věštění a jaká znamení zvěrokruhu by si podle kalendáře měla během dne dávat pozor. Zahrnuje věci, kterých by se dnes dalo hladce dosáhnout a které by lidé měli odložit na jindy. Při pohledu na kalendář si Wan Fen Chen vždy pomyslí: co kdyby Wan Fen Chen převedl informace v kalendáři z tištěných slov na ikony? Stránka by po transpozici a novém uspořádání vypadala úžasně a jedinečně. Proto vznikl Denní kód - Čínský almanach.
The Recognition
About the Železná cena A' Design Award
Day Code Čínský Almanach je vítězem Železné ceny A' Design Award, prestižního uznání udělovaného dobrým designům, které splňují profesní a průmyslové požadavky očekávané od dobře navržených výtvorů. Železní vítězové prokazují velké dovednosti, vysokou specializaci, odborné porozumění a tvůrčí kapacitu svých tvůrců. Očekává se, že Day Code Čínský Almanach bude vysoce ceněným, obdivovaným a oblíbeným výtvorem, který je praktický a inovativní. Tento design, který získal Železnou cenu A' Design Award, integruje osvědčené postupy odvětví a má kompetentní technické vlastnosti spojené s know-how a talentem. Day Code Čínský Almanach je vážen pro svou důkladnost a je navržen tak, aby poskytoval zlepšení kvality života, která pomáhají činit svět lepším místem.
Behind the Design
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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
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