Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Goes to Second Hand Life Poster by Yilin Wang
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yilin Wang for graphics, illustration and visual communication design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category for Second Hand Life Poster by Yilin Wang, designed for Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Second Hand Life Poster
Second Hand Life is a poster series about the way people receive fragmented information. The series contains twenty A3 posters, arranged to form one main visual, and is accompanied by a mounted and bound book. Language is turned into visual graphics through binary code, where the symbols one and zero also stand for true and false in logical operations. This link reflects how judgement is shaped by the information that is accepted. The posters and the book ask for closer attention to a social issue, because a fragmented view of information can replace a complete one.
About Yilin Wang
He is a designer from China who has won numerous design awards. He is dedicated to expressing traditional Chinese culture to the world through an international design approach, enabling more people globally to understand indigenous Chinese design.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yilin Wang a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2022 - 2023 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Award
The A' Graphic Design Award is an international graphic design competition recognizing good graphic designs by best creative agencies and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to graphic designers, communication designers, graphic artists and illustrators from all countries. Typical entries include logos, posters, infographics, brochures, packaging designs and business cards. The awarded graphic designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/graphics
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/141561
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/141561
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!141561
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/310096
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Second Hand Life Poster
- Function
- Poster
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Black, Dark Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yilin Wang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #141561
Design Details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Realization and Technology
- A series of posters and books designed to convey the theme of second-hand life
- Operation and Interaction
- The language of the poster and the design of the book are used to convey the message to the audience.
- Project Duration and Location
- 2022.5.23 in Hangzhou, China
- Specifications
- A series of 20 A3-sized posters arranged for the main visual effect, book mounted and bound
- Keywords
- Poster、Concept、Books
