The Phoenix Cartel by Te-Sian Shih is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Hierro in Diseño Gráfico, Ilustración y Comunicación Visual Competition Category.

HierroGráfico· 2022

The Phoenix Cartel

by Te-Sian Shih

Client: Te-Sian Shih

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Gráfico Category

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The Design

About The Phoenix Cartel

El Fénix es un cartel de imagen clave creado para una academia y un festival de música en Taipéi. La imagen central combina ondas musicales con la silueta de un violín, formando un fénix que despliega sus alas. Las ondas naranjas del centro sugieren también una llama, que representa el esfuerzo y el entusiasmo de los músicos y del equipo organizador. El fondo azul oscuro se construye a partir de líneas curvas que evocan el mar y las ondas sonoras. El cartel se realizó íntegramente con líneas dibujadas, sin fotografías, empleando modos de fusión en un programa de edición de imágenes.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

The Phoenix Cartel ha ganado el A' Design Award de Hierro, un reconocimiento prestigioso concedido a buenos diseños que cumplen los requisitos profesionales e industriales que se esperan de creaciones bien diseñadas. Los ganadores de Hierro demuestran gran habilidad, alta especialización, comprensión experta y capacidad creativa de sus creadores. Se espera que The Phoenix Cartel sea una creación muy apreciada, admirada y querida, práctica e innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Hierro integra las mejores prácticas del sector y tiene características técnicas competentes unidas a conocimiento práctico y talento. The Phoenix Cartel es respetado por su minuciosidad y está concebido para aportar mejoras en la calidad de vida que ayudan a hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: She designed this key visual poster for Taipei Music Academy and Festival combines the violin with the image of flame, the phoenix, and the sea and music's sonic (music waves). The poster makes people feel the smooth lines, the sea's feeling, sonic waves, and musicians' enthusiasm.
Dimensions & Packaging: 18cm width x 0 cm dept x 24cm height
The lines should be thicker than 0.5 mm for printing, so she made each line in the poster thicker than 0.5 mm.
Tags: Visual design, poster design, layout design, key visual design, graphic design.
Production Technology: In adobe photoshop, the designer could choose a blend mode group.
She used lines to make two different shapes of images and combined them with adobe photoshop's multiply and color dodge to make the violin with phoenix's wings.
Besides, She made darken blue background with lines that look like waves.
Design Challenge: To create a poster without any real picture was a new challenge for 2021's poster design because, in 2020, the designer used the real violin's image to be the main character. This year she had to create the whole picture by herself.
Research: The trance-formations in eastern music performance are natural and flowing music style, floating clouds, and flowing water.
The shape in the background represents the feeling of flying in music and waves of music.

Besides, The center image combines music waves and a violin shape image, and it looks like a phoenix spreading its wings. The orange-colored waves in the center of the poster represent a flying phoenix. The phoenix represents hard work and the enthusiasm of musicians and all the staff.
Inspiration: The designer designed another key visual poster for Taipei Music Academy and Festival in 2020. She used the real violin's image to be Taipei Music Academy and Festival's main visual, so the team decided to use lines to communicate the abstract music feeling this year to separate the difference between 2020's key visual poster and 2021's poster.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2020 in Taipei and finished in December 2020 in Taipei, and it was exhibited in the United States in July 2021 due to Taipei's pandemic.
Operation Flow: When people look at the poster, they see the phoenix and violin combined image first.
When viewers follow the background's blue lines, their eyes will see the date, activity's name, and then sponsors' names on it.
Every image has logic to put in its place.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Te-Sian Shih, 2020.
Image Credits: Designer Te-Sian, Shih, phoenix, 2020.