Wuhan Diary Diarium Visuale by Yu Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Graphica Competition Category.

ArgentumGraphica· 2021

Wuhan Diary Diarium Visuale

by Yu Chen

Client: Hubei University of Technology

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Graphica Category

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The Design

About Wuhan Diary Diarium Visuale

Diarium Wuhanense est diarium visuale de vita cotidiana Wuhani per pestilentiam. Proiectum programmatione utitur ad linguas visuales in terra fundatas construendas ex opinionibus publicis collectis et datis casuum confirmatorum. Color et densitas formarum montium volventium ambitum socialem et animum mutantem cuiusque temporis exprimunt. Forma terrae tribus dimensionibus praedita ex datis parametricis in Unity aedificata est. Diarium Wuhanense ut affixum 420 per 594 millimetrorum praesentatur, una cum graphicis motis, realitate aucta et proiectione interactiva.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Wuhan Diary Diarium Visuale victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Wuhan Diary Diarium Visuale opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Wuhan Diary Diarium Visuale creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The Chinese people's concept of nature and world outlook are all firmly based on our land. I used programming to present a series of case studies on terrain-based visual languages and collected public opinions during the pandemic period. I used the color and density of rolling mountains to present the social environment and my emotions while under the pandemic situation, which creates a visual diary.
Dimensions & Packaging: Poster:420mm×594mm
Tags: Visual Diary, Motion Graphic, Mood, Program, Motion
Production Technology: Poster, AR , Motion Graphic, Interaction Projection
Design Challenge: I hope to combine the land elements with social data during the epidemic through visual design to create dynamic graphics that allow people to feel and reflect on what they experienced during the epidemic. A basic three-dimensional earth shape was built referencing the ubiquitous earth elements in Xu Bing's works, the collected public opinions, and confirmed case data of the epidemic. The data was then parameterized and with the combination of colours, they were imported to UNITY to realize a visual earth shape.
Research: In January, the city of Wuhan captured the world's attention overnight as COVID-19 swept the globe. At this special moment, I am in Wuhan, experiencing the whole process of Wuhan’s fight against the epidemic. In this difficult time, I recorded all the things that happened around during this period and showed the changes in personal mood during each period through visual diaries so that more people could understand the thoughts of people in this special city of Wuhan under the epidemic.
Wuhan is my hometown, and the land I love so much that I can't help but think of how close the poems of ancients’ homeland and national emotions are to my current feelings. This involuntarily makes me aware of the homeland feelings in my genes.
Inspiration: Due to the pandemic, I was quarantined at home for nearly three months, during which I had plenty of time to think about the modern relationship between humans and nature.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2020 in Wuhan and finished in April 2020.
Patents: Yu Chen
Team Members: Yu Chen
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Image Credits: Yu Chen