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Second Hand Life Plakatserie by Yilin Wang

Second Hand Life Plakatserie by Yilin Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Bronze in Grafikdesign Competition Category.


BronzeGrafik· 2023

Second Hand Life Plakatserie

by Yilin Wang

Client: Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

A' Design Award in Bronze Winner in Grafik Category

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The Design

About Second Hand Life Plakatserie

Second Hand Life ist eine Plakatserie über die Art und Weise, wie Menschen fragmentierte Informationen aufnehmen. Die Serie umfasst zwanzig A3-Plakate, die zu einem übergeordneten Gesamtbild angeordnet sind, und wird von einem aufgezogenen und gebundenen Buch begleitet. Sprache wird mittels Binärcode in visuelle Grafik überführt, wobei die Zeichen Eins und Null in logischen Operationen zugleich für wahr und falsch stehen. Diese Verknüpfung verdeutlicht, wie das eigene Urteil von jenen Informationen geprägt wird, die man annimmt. Die Plakate und das Buch fordern eine genauere Auseinandersetzung mit einer gesellschaftlichen Problematik ein, denn eine fragmentierte Sicht auf Informationen kann an die Stelle einer vollständigen treten.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Bronze

Second Hand Life Plakatserie ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Bronze, einer hochprestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für herausragende Designs, die sich durch Kreativität, Einfallsreichtum und Scharfsinn auszeichnen. Bronze-Gewinner sind reichlich geschickte und auffallend kreative Artefakte, die die große Erfahrung, Fantasie und Findigkeit ihrer Designer belegen. Von Second Hand Life Plakatserie wird erwartet, dass es ein hochgeschätztes, bewundertes und geliebtes Objekt ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Bronze prämierte Design verkörpert bewährte Verfahren in Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie und ist hervorragend in seiner Liebe zum Detail. Second Hand Life Plakatserie befriedigt Bedürfnisse auf großartige Weise, berührt Wünsche, bezaubert Gefühle und spricht die Neugier an.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The work Second Hand Life attempts to re-objectify language into visual graphics, in a programming structured Web language, presented graphically through binary as a container, and finally through a poster calling for more attention to this public social issue, which constitutes a greater danger than this, this fragmented reception of information deprives us of the information we get from the whole, one dimension, one perspective.
Dimensions & Packaging
A series of 20 A3-sized posters arranged for the main visual effect, book mounted and bound
Tags
Poster、Concept、Books
Production Technology
A series of posters and books designed to convey the theme of second-hand life
Design Challenge
Initially there was a lack of a font that would adequately convey the theme, so what font would represent the message and what font would tie the poster together and create a sense of interaction. After a lot of research, we found that binary was a good way to express the theme of the design. Firstly, the symbols '1' and '0' in binary are exactly the same as the symbols 'true' and 'false' in logical operations. The symbols "1" and "0" correspond to "true" and "false" in logical operations, which corresponds very well to the second-hand life of the discriminating acceptance of information and the ability to judge one's own thinking by its control.
Research
Since the deepening of the age of short videos and information technology, more and more people have become concerned with the problem of information reception in the face of an endless torrent of information. This design work will use the language of poster design to express why people's ability to discriminate is diminished by information in today's social environment, and to explain how this subconscious lure of information reception has profound effects.
Inspiration
I find that taking in a lot of fragmented information deprives us of a holistic, one-dimensional and one-pointed approach to information, and it is for this reason that people get one-sided, intensely personal and subjective information.
Project Duration
2022.5.23 in Hangzhou, China
Operation Flow
The language of the poster and the design of the book are used to convey the message to the audience.

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