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Across Primary Function: Fosta by Xuguang Zhu and Chao Yang

Across Primary Function: Fosta by Xuguang Zhu and Chao Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Kyautar A' Design Award ta Azurfa in Zane-zane Competition Category.


AzurfaZane-zane· 2022

Across Primary Function: Fosta

by Xuguang Zhu and Chao Yang

Client: Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Kyautar A' Design Award ta Azurfa Winner in Zane-zane Category

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The Design

About Across Primary Function: Fosta

Book Text: Across wata fosta ce da aka kirkiro don wani bikin fasahar dijital da aka kebe don fasahar duwatsu na tsaunukan Helan da ke kasar Sin. An buga fostar a kan kayan lenticular. Hoto daya yana nuna asalin zanen tsaunin Helan yayin da dayan kuma yana nuna sigar dijital ta zamani na zane iri daya. Yayin da kusurwar kallo ke canjawa, tsohon zanen yana bacewa sannan zanen dijital ya bayyana. An zana hoton na gargajiya da cakuda tawada, shayi, gelatine da fulawar zinare, wanda aka shafa ta hanyar yafawa domin samar da kamanni mai kama da dutse. Across na nufin adanawa da yada wata tsohuwar al'ada da ke cikin hadarin bacewa.

The Recognition

About the Kyautar A' Design Award ta Azurfa

Zanen Across Primary Function: Fosta ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Azurfa, wata karramawa mai tsananin daraja da ake bai wa zane-zane na matakin koli, masu kyau sosai kuma masu burgewa. Waɗanda suka lashe kyautar Azurfa ayyuka ne masu haske sosai da ƙirƙira mai yawa waɗanda ke nuna ƙwarewa, baiwa da kaifin tunanin masu zanensu. Ana sa ran zanen Across Primary Function: Fosta ya zama aiki mai ban mamaki, abin koyi, mai ƙwarewa sosai kuma mai ƙirƙire-ƙirƙire mai zurfi. Wannan zane da ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Azurfa ƙirƙira ce mai abin lura sosai, da ake sha'awa, wacce ke amfanar da kuma kai iyakokin fasaha, kimiyya, zane da fasahar zamani gaba. Zanen Across Primary Function: Fosta ƙirƙira ce da ake yi wa hassada sosai wacce ke tada sha'awa, tana kawo jin daɗi kuma tana haifar da mamaki da al'ajabi.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The poster uses lenticular material. On one side is a modern digital Helan Mountain motif and on the other side is the original Helan Mountain motif. The lenticular material makes the original Helan Mountain image disappear and become the new digital Helan Mountain as the viewpoint moves, thus expressing the theme of leapfrogging and symbolising the revival of an ancient civilisation.
Dimensions & Packaging
Poster: 1855mm*30mm*465mm
Tags
Chinese tradition, internationalism, rock art, cultural relics
Production Technology
1.Raster material. This kind of material is characterized by different pictures that can be seen from different angles and produce alternating effects. It is used to express the theme of across and symbolize the renewal and iteration of an ancient civilization.
2.Comprehensive material painting. I use a mixture of ink, tea, gelatine and gold powder to make pigments and then use a syringe to perform the Chinese painting technique of ink splashing. The pigment is sprayed on the ground and covered with rice paper. The next day, a special texture similar to rock will be obtained to show the traditional Holan Mountain rock painting.
Design Challenge
The biggest challenge was the clever use of materials and graphics to convey the concept of the theme.
Research
Type of research: modernisation of ancient civilisations
Research Objective: To modernise and digitally conserve the ancient rock paintings of the Holan Mountains
Methodology: To investigate the history and types of rock paintings in the endangered Holan Mountains. A modern redesign based on the original motifs so that they can continue to be disseminated and used in contemporary times.
Results: The design was presented and a digital art festival was carried out in Holan Mountains, which succeeded in making more people aware of the culture and many bought souvenirs of the design.
Inspiration
Holan mountain rock painting is a precious ancient civilization heritage of China. Nowadays, due to environmental reasons, it is gradually disappearing, but many people still don't know its existence. Therefore, I have planned a digital art festival of Holan Mountain with the theme of across. The main visual performance of this festival is to redesign the rock paintings digitally as a kind of digital protection, so that they can be spread and applied in the contemporary era and play the contemporary value of ancient culture.
Project Duration
The project starts in Hangzhou in March 2021, will be completed in Hangzhou in April 2021 and will be presented in Helan Mountain, Ningxia in May 2021
Operation Flow
Different motifs can be seen with different viewing angles of the poster. The traditional Holan Mountain motif and the modern Holan Mountain motif keep disappearing and reappearing as the perspective changes. This expresses the concept of an ancient civilisation disappearing and transforming into a new form, and the new form inheriting the ancient civilisation.
Team Members
Creative Director: Xuguang Zhu
Designer: Chao yang
Designer: Yiyang Li
Designer: Yilin Wang

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