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Across Plakát by Xuguang Zhu and Chao Yang

Across Plakát by Xuguang Zhu and Chao Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Stříbrná cena A' Design Award in Grafika Competition Category.


StříbroGrafika· 2022

Across Plakát

by Xuguang Zhu and Chao Yang

Client: Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Stříbrná cena A' Design Award Winner in Grafika Category

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The Design

About Across Plakát

Across je plakát vytvořený pro festival digitálního umění věnovaný skalním rytinám pohoří Che-lan v Číně. Plakát je vytištěn na lentikulárním materiálu. Jeden obraz zachycuje původní motiv z pohoří Che-lan a druhý zobrazuje moderní digitální verzi téhož motivu. S měnícím se úhlem pohledu starobylý motiv mizí a objevuje se motiv digitální. Tradiční obraz byl namalován směsí inkoustu, čaje, želatiny a zlatého prášku, nanesenou technikou rozstřikování, aby vznikla textura připomínající skálu. Cílem díla Across je uchovat a sdílet ohroženou starobylou kulturu.

The Recognition

About the Stříbrná cena A' Design Award

Across Plakát je vítězem Stříbrné ceny A' Design Award, mimořádně prestižního uznání udělovaného designům nejvyšší kvality, nádherným a působivým. Stříbrní vítězové jsou nesmírně brilantní a mimořádně kreativní díla, která dokládají vynikající odbornost, talent a bystrost svých designérů. Očekává se, že Across Plakát bude nádherným, reprezentativním dílem, pozoruhodně profesionálním a hluboce inovativním. Tento design, který získal Stříbrnou cenu A' Design Award, je vysoce pozoruhodný, obdivovaný vynález, který prospívá a posouvá hranice umění, vědy, designu a technologií. Across Plakát je výtvor, kterému mnozí závidí, který vyvolává touhy, přináší pozitivní pocity a vzněcuje úžas a údiv.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The poster uses lenticular material. On one side is a modern digital Helan Mountain motif and on the other side is the original Helan Mountain motif. The lenticular material makes the original Helan Mountain image disappear and become the new digital Helan Mountain as the viewpoint moves, thus expressing the theme of leapfrogging and symbolising the revival of an ancient civilisation.
Dimensions & Packaging
Poster: 1855mm*30mm*465mm
Tags
Chinese tradition, internationalism, rock art, cultural relics
Production Technology
1.Raster material. This kind of material is characterized by different pictures that can be seen from different angles and produce alternating effects. It is used to express the theme of across and symbolize the renewal and iteration of an ancient civilization.
2.Comprehensive material painting. I use a mixture of ink, tea, gelatine and gold powder to make pigments and then use a syringe to perform the Chinese painting technique of ink splashing. The pigment is sprayed on the ground and covered with rice paper. The next day, a special texture similar to rock will be obtained to show the traditional Holan Mountain rock painting.
Design Challenge
The biggest challenge was the clever use of materials and graphics to convey the concept of the theme.
Research
Type of research: modernisation of ancient civilisations
Research Objective: To modernise and digitally conserve the ancient rock paintings of the Holan Mountains
Methodology: To investigate the history and types of rock paintings in the endangered Holan Mountains. A modern redesign based on the original motifs so that they can continue to be disseminated and used in contemporary times.
Results: The design was presented and a digital art festival was carried out in Holan Mountains, which succeeded in making more people aware of the culture and many bought souvenirs of the design.
Inspiration
Holan mountain rock painting is a precious ancient civilization heritage of China. Nowadays, due to environmental reasons, it is gradually disappearing, but many people still don't know its existence. Therefore, I have planned a digital art festival of Holan Mountain with the theme of across. The main visual performance of this festival is to redesign the rock paintings digitally as a kind of digital protection, so that they can be spread and applied in the contemporary era and play the contemporary value of ancient culture.
Project Duration
The project starts in Hangzhou in March 2021, will be completed in Hangzhou in April 2021 and will be presented in Helan Mountain, Ningxia in May 2021
Operation Flow
Different motifs can be seen with different viewing angles of the poster. The traditional Holan Mountain motif and the modern Holan Mountain motif keep disappearing and reappearing as the perspective changes. This expresses the concept of an ancient civilisation disappearing and transforming into a new form, and the new form inheriting the ancient civilisation.
Team Members
Creative Director: Xuguang Zhu
Designer: Chao yang
Designer: Yiyang Li
Designer: Yilin Wang

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