Wuhan Diary Visuel Dagbog by Yu Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award i Sølv in Grafik, Illustration og Visuel Kommunikationsdesign Competition Category.

SølvGrafik· 2021

Wuhan Diary Visuel Dagbog

by Yu Chen

Client: Hubei University of Technology

A' Design Award i Sølv Winner in Grafik Category

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The Design

About Wuhan Diary Visuel Dagbog

Wuhan Diary er en visuel dagbog om hverdagslivet i Wuhan under pandemien. Projektet bruger programmering til at opbygge terrænbaserede visuelle sprog ud fra indsamlede offentlige meninger og bekræftede sygdomstilfælde. Farve og tætheden af bølgende bjergformer udtrykker det sociale miljø og den skiftende stemning i hver periode. En tredimensionel jordform blev opbygget ud fra parametriserede data i Unity. Wuhan Diary præsenteres som en plakat på 420 gange 594 millimeter sammen med bevægelsesgrafik, augmented reality og interaktiv projektion.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Sølv

Wuhan Diary Visuel Dagbog er vinder af A' Design Award i Sølv, en usædvanligt prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles designs i topklasse, som er pragtfulde og imponerende. Sølvvinderne er enormt geniale og overordentlig kreative værker, der illustrerer deres designeres fremragende ekspertise, talent og skarpsindighed. Wuhan Diary Visuel Dagbog forventes at være et vidunderligt udstillingsværk, der er bemærkelsesværdigt professionelt og dybt innovativt. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Sølv, er en højst bemærkelsesværdig, beundret opfindelse, som gavner og flytter grænserne for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi. Wuhan Diary Visuel Dagbog er en skabelse, som mange misunder, og som vækker begær, bringer positive følelser og antænder forundring og undren.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The Chinese people's concept of nature and world outlook are all firmly based on our land. I used programming to present a series of case studies on terrain-based visual languages and collected public opinions during the pandemic period. I used the color and density of rolling mountains to present the social environment and my emotions while under the pandemic situation, which creates a visual diary.
Dimensions & Packaging: Poster:420mm×594mm
Tags: Visual Diary, Motion Graphic, Mood, Program, Motion
Production Technology: Poster, AR , Motion Graphic, Interaction Projection
Design Challenge: I hope to combine the land elements with social data during the epidemic through visual design to create dynamic graphics that allow people to feel and reflect on what they experienced during the epidemic. A basic three-dimensional earth shape was built referencing the ubiquitous earth elements in Xu Bing's works, the collected public opinions, and confirmed case data of the epidemic. The data was then parameterized and with the combination of colours, they were imported to UNITY to realize a visual earth shape.
Research: In January, the city of Wuhan captured the world's attention overnight as COVID-19 swept the globe. At this special moment, I am in Wuhan, experiencing the whole process of Wuhan’s fight against the epidemic. In this difficult time, I recorded all the things that happened around during this period and showed the changes in personal mood during each period through visual diaries so that more people could understand the thoughts of people in this special city of Wuhan under the epidemic.
Wuhan is my hometown, and the land I love so much that I can't help but think of how close the poems of ancients’ homeland and national emotions are to my current feelings. This involuntarily makes me aware of the homeland feelings in my genes.
Inspiration: Due to the pandemic, I was quarantined at home for nearly three months, during which I had plenty of time to think about the modern relationship between humans and nature.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2020 in Wuhan and finished in April 2020.
Patents: Yu Chen
Team Members: Yu Chen
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Image Credits: Yu Chen