Qin ポスターシリーズ by Kaidi Mao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銅賞 in グラフィックス・イラストレーション・ビジュアルコミュニケーションデザイン Competition Category.

銅グラフィック· 2021

Qin ポスターシリーズ

by Kaidi Mao

Client: Kaidi Mao

A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in グラフィック Category

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The Design

About Qin ポスターシリーズ

「Qin（沁）」は、中国の山水画の伝統をデジタルメディアによって再解釈したポスターシリーズである。名称の「沁」は、しみ込む、浸透するという意味をもつ中国語に由来し、その文字は「水」と「心」の記号が組み合わされて成り立っている。イメージは写真を出発点とし、Photoshop、Cinema 4D、Procreateといったデジタルツールを用いて展開された。本シリーズは2種類のサイズで制作され、プリントとスクリーンのいずれでも、またギャラリーでも住空間でも展示することができる。その意図は、道教的な自然観を国際的な鑑賞者に向けて表現することにある。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅賞

Qin ポスターシリーズは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Qin ポスターシリーズは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Qin ポスターシリーズは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Kaidi Mao's examination of the aesthetic and intellectual tradition of Chinese landscape painting has enabled him to understand the connection between classical Chinese painters and their natural environments. To explore such painting's relationship to nature in a contemporary context, Mao has used today's technology to produce digital images inspired by the traditions of China.
Dimensions & Packaging: There are two sizes for this poster series: 24 inches x 36 inches, and 24 inches x 30 inches
Tags: Art, poster, Taoism, culture, landscape, painting
Production Technology: The initial images are from photography, then digitally created using tools like Photoshop, Cinema 4D and Procreate.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge of this project is to visually communicate this East Asian worldview to international viewer, especially under the current political environment.
Research: This project is a pictorial reinterpretation of Chinese painters' use of nature to communicate the Taoist notion that the whole planet is permeated by invisible Tao, "the Way of the cosmos, which is evident in nature." Mao has titled this project Qin. Qin, comes from the Chinese word, which means "to permeate", "to seep into". This project allows different cultures, concepts and methods to seep together. The character Qin consists of two parts: the left represents water, and the right represents the heart. Heart can be interpreted as the depth of one's feelings, and when combined with water, expresses something that comes from one's innermost being. Qin explores the aesthetic depth with which Chinese culture responds to, reveres, and honors the natural environment by reexamining pictorial traditions using contemporary digital image production. It also serves as an expression of the connection felt by a producer of such imagery with the underlying concept of Tao that inexpressibly permeates universal being in the Chinese tradition.
Inspiration: As a designer from China living in the United States, I have sought to integrate my training in contemporary design with my personal and cultural identity. This has come through an examination of different media and technological approaches. This process has led me to a series of digitally produced design pieces that examine my own Chinese pictorial tradition. These works have also allowed me an alternative approach to understanding The Natural within my practice.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2019, finished in May 2020 in Los Angeles.
Operation Flow: These posters/graphic arts can be displayed physically and digitally, in a gallery setting or in a home setting.