Day Code Almanaque Chino by Wan Fen Chen

Day Code Almanaque Chino by Wan Fen Chen 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

Day Code Almanaque Chino

by Wan Fen Chen

Client: Maruko Design Studio

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Gráfico Category

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The Design

About Day Code Almanaque Chino

En Taiwán, los calendarios además de decir la fecha, podrían decir las horas de la fortuna y qué signos del zodiaco animales deben tener cuidado durante ese día, según el calendario. Incluye cosas que podrían lograrse sin problemas hoy y que la gente debería dejar de lado para otro momento. Cuando mira el calendario, Wan Fen Chen siempre piensa: ¿qué pasaría si Wan Fen Chen transpusiera la información en el calendario de palabras impresas a íconos? La página se vería maravillosa y única después de la transposición y el reordenamiento. Por lo tanto, nació el código de día: el almanaque chino.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

Day Code Almanaque Chino 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 Day Code Almanaque Chino 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. Day Code Almanaque Chino 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

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

Unique Properties: On the calendar in Taiwan, in addition to providing information regarding the records of ancestors’ wisdom – lunar calendar. It also tells people to welcome good fortune and avoid bad omens every day. Nevertheless, the information is provided in verbal form. Day Code - Chinese Almanac presents signs transposed from words. It also filtered and deleted some suggestions for incompatibility in the regular lunar calendar and selected reminders suitable for modern people: marriage, business contract, opening a business, moving, etc. to remind them which items are suitable or unsuitable to be done today.
Dimensions & Packaging: w100 mm x d36 mm x h143 mm
Tags: Lunar calendar, calendar, graphic design, vintage, tiles with floral patterns
Production Technology: Risograph and Perfect Binding
Design Challenge: In the digital era and the modern times, few people use printed calendars. It may promote people’s intentions of using printed calendars by adding interesting and functions, such as: enlarging the note section, adding specially designed stickers for reminders, etc. to transform a regular calendar into a diary.
Research: Transpose words into simple and comprehensive graphics Using risograph technology, random derangement, uneven coloring, imperfect and unexpectable printing features adds a vintage feel. Traditional Taiwanese tiles with floral patterns and iron windows are used on the design to add Taiwanese style to the design. Now, the lunar calendar is commonly used by the Taiwanese in daily life. Therefore, in addition to dates of the solar calendar, the lunar calendar, corresponding to the wax and wane of the moon, are displayed completed.
Inspiration: Is today suitable for moving? In the 1960s to 1980s, on the walls of every family in Taiwan, calendars presented by xx companies or oo stores were hanging there. People tore off one page early in the morning to celebrate the coming of a new day. In addition to telling you the date, you could tell the fortune hours and which zodiac animals signs should be careful during that day, according to the calendar. It includes things that could be achieved smoothly today and which ones I should put aside for some other time. On this little piece of paper, many codes of daily life were hidden there.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2022 and finished in December 2022 in Taiwan
Operation Flow: No punch holes on the calendar. Pages are intact. The calendar is placed on a special rack to present a simple setting. On the note column and blanks, reminders of today can be written there. Using the corresponding reminder stickers, users can record things to do, time arrangement, thoughts, wish lists, etc. transforming a calendar into a diary.
Image Credits: Creator & Visuals: Wan Fen, Chen