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Chih-Yuan Chang Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for TwoSuns Storytelling Puzzle in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Chih-Yuan Chang honored for graphics, illustration and visual communication design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category for TwoSuns Storytelling Puzzle by Chih-Yuan Chang, designed for Cyc. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 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 scored 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.
More About TwoSuns Storytelling Puzzle
TwoSuns visually narrates an ancient story about one of the two suns becomes the moon from the indigenous Bunun tribe in Taiwan. TwoSuns demonstrates the work interactively and engagingly by combining the language with the puzzle. The puzzle intends to bring up people’s curiosity, entertainment, and the action of learning. To strengthen the connection between the tribe and the spiritual story, Chih-Yuan Chang uses diverse mediums and techniques representing the Bunun tribe’s features such as wood, fabric, and laser-cutting.
About Chih-Yuan Chang
Chih-Yuan Chang is an interdisciplinary designer based in Brooklyn, New York. He devotes himself to applying systematic thinking with engaging visuals across extensive forms and experimenting with various materials. His work has been recognized by multiple awards and featured in different press. He has won awards such as GDUSA, C2A, AVA Digital Awards, IDA, and LICC. Besides the full-time freelance job, he involves designing volunteer work, creating visual images, and promotional projects for non-profit organizations and charities such as Guyana Economic Development Trust (GEDT).
Award Record
Chih-Yuan Chang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to graphic designers, communication designers, graphic artists and illustrators from all countries. Entries typically include logos, posters, infographics, brochures, packaging designs and business cards. Awarded graphic designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/graphics
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/109611
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/109611
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!109611
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/283952
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/30jmpOD
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- TwoSuns Storytelling Puzzle
- Function
- Storytelling Puzzle
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Wheat, Burly Wood, Dark Khaki, Peru and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Cyc
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chih-Yuan Chang
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #109611
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer ChihYuan Chang, Overlook, 2018.; Photographer ChihYuan Chang, Box, 2018.; Photographer ChihYuan Chang, Puzzling, 2018.; Photographer ChihYuan Chang, Blocks, 2018.; Photographer ChihYuan Chang, Dictionary, 2018.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- TwoSuns is a visual communication design work of a constructed language based on visual forms to narrate a story. The symbols are created logically by their figure and divided into nouns and verbs. This work is unique because it demonstrates the diverse use of media and techniques, such as wood, laser-cutting, and fabric. The use of wood represents the tribe's location, and the use of laser-cut means the drought and burn caused by the suns. Also, Bunun is famous for its textile and weave, which the dictionary to decode the message is printed on fabric.
- Inspiration
- TwoSuns is inspired by the story of Retrospection Of The Sun from the Taiwanese indigenous tribe, Bunun. The story depicts how a father and a son from the tribe went on a long trudge for decades to destroy one of the two suns to the moon to save the earth from drought and high temperature. Moreover, Bunun is located in the central mountain in Taiwan with a distinct culture and language of their own. Hence, the idea of delivering the story with visualized symbols on the puzzles is to demonstrate the importance of preserving and passing on this fascinating ancient story.
- Research
- I used the essential elements such as circle, square, and lines to design the symbols because these are the iconic elements that the Bunun practice on their fabrics in cloths and tattoos. After creating this work, I interviewed people who don't acknowledge the story for feedback. The expected results were that they found attractive puzzling and worked hard on figuring out the symbol's meaning with and without checking the dictionary. Thus, this work is successful in sharing and worth expanding.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge is to simplify the forms instead of crafting. That is, minimizing the puzzle's shape and the symbols for the users to understand and play is more beneficial since it contains multiple items and materials. Hence, the puzzle requires to reach more intuitive and obvious to complete. For example, there were adjectives and prepositions, along with nouns and verbs. The puzzle's shape wasn't square but more triangular, and the hint for each plate was unaesthetic and more confused.
- Realization and Technology
- The use of wood represents the Bunun tribe's location in the mountain in Taiwan. The laser-cut indicates the drought and burn caused by the two suns. TwoSuns combines the wooden plates with the puzzles to propose that this ancient story has been passed down hundreds of years by indigenous people generationally. Since the Bunun is famous for its textile and weave, the fabric delivers the symbols' decoding message and instructions as it stands for people spreading the story.
- Operation and Interaction
- When users open the box, they will see the puzzle pieces on the top and the dictionary at the bottom. Each part of the puzzle has its associate plate, and the sequence is easy to figure out without guidance due to the blocks behind. There are two small blocks with different distances and angles behind the symbol surface. After completing the puzzle, users can understand the symbols by decoding them with the dictionary's help, expecting users to explore the spiritual Bunun story.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was created from October 2018 to November 2018.
- Specifications
- Puzzle dimension: 8 x 8 x 1.5 Outside box dimension: 8.375 x 8.125 x 1.75 Fabric dictionary: 8 x 41
- Keywords
- Visual language, Puzzle, Laser-cutting, fabric, Wooden pieces
