All We Need is Love Cartel by Pin Gao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Bronce in Diseño Gráfico, Ilustración y Comunicación Visual Competition Category.

BronceGráfico· 2023

All We Need is Love Cartel

by Pin Gao

Client: Shenyang Jianzhu University

A' Design Award de Bronce Winner in Gráfico Category

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The Design

About All We Need is Love Cartel

All We Need is Love es un cartel que une caracteres chinos con letras del alfabeto inglés. El diseño se basa en el carácter chino que significa amor. El carácter está formado por imágenes fotográficas e integra además las letras l, o, v y e y el número 2023. Para crear la obra, que mide 700 por 1000 milímetros, se emplearon la fotografía y programas de tratamiento gráfico. El cartel puede exhibirse en espacios públicos. El objetivo es mostrar un antiguo carácter chino en una forma visual contemporánea y expresar la idea de unidad y paz.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronce

All We Need is Love Cartel ha ganado el A' Design Award de Bronce, un reconocimiento sumamente prestigioso concedido a diseños sobresalientes que se distinguen por su creatividad, ingenio y astucia. Los ganadores de Bronce son artefactos ampliamente hábiles y sorprendentemente creativos que acreditan la vasta experiencia, imaginación e ingeniosidad de sus diseñadores. Se espera que All We Need is Love Cartel sea un objeto muy apreciado, admirado y querido, notablemente profesional e innovador. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Bronce incorpora las mejores prácticas del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología, y es excelente por su atención al detalle. All We Need is Love Cartel satisface espléndidamente las necesidades, toca los deseos, encanta los sentimientos y atrae la curiosidad.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is an innovative design using text elements. It is to excavate the new form of Chinese character art, take the Chinese characters as the prototype, and to make full use of photography technology to deduce its charm, making the text more visual. In this way, the ancient Chinese characters have a new visual display and transmission.
Dimensions & Packaging: 700 mm x 1000 mm
Tags: Poster, design, public service, visual communication
Production Technology: Photography and graphics processing software and other tools were used to create this design work.
Design Challenge: The challenge of this work is to design the ancient Chinese characters more visually and graphically without affecting the recognition of characters.
Research: By exploring the design history and development of English font elements, this work aims to investigate the methods and measures of the interaction design between Chinese and Western characters , so that more people can understand the art of Chinese characters, and establish more exchanges and cooperation between in the east and the west. This is an innovative design using text elements. It is to excavate the new form of Chinese character art, take the Chinese characters as the prototype, and to make full use of digital technology to deduce its charm, making the text more visual. In this way, the ancient Chinese characters have a new visual display and transmission.
Inspiration: The creative inspiration of this work comes from the visit in UK. After in-depth study of English fonts, an interesting idea came into being. a connection between Chinese and English is been established .The Chinese character “love" made from special images. it integrates English letter "l' "o" "v" "e" and 2023. It symbolizes the power of unity to unite into love, and wants to express the power of peace through this design. These ingenious design presents the perfect mixture of Chinese characters and English letters, and also makes the ancient Chinese characters show a new modern style.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2022 in London of UK and finished in November 2022.
Operation Flow: This work can be posted in the various public environments, in order to achieve the role of showing studio image and warning humans.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Gao Pin, Variations, 2022.
Optional Image #1 Illustrator Gao Pin
Optional Image #2 Illustrator Gao Pin
Optional Image #3 Illustrator Gao Pin
Optional Image #4. Illustrator Gao Pin