Wood and Tree Tabula by Yu Zhuang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Graphica Competition Category.

ArgentumGraphica· 2020

Wood and Tree Tabula

by Yu Zhuang

Client: Jia Saitama

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Graphica Category

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The Design

About Wood and Tree Tabula

Lignum et Arbor est tabula ad seminarium architecturae Tokii in Iaponia habitum creata. Argumentum seminarii est novus usus ligni, materiae classicae, in architectura moderna. Tabula lingua graphica moderna utitur ad delineationem classicam anulorum arboris imitandam. Lineae numero, crassitudine, curvatura et colore variae probatae sunt ut figura formaretur. Effectus structura mathematicus est, sed pulchritudo naturalis manet. Tabula ducentos decem per ducentos nonaginta septem millimetra metitur. In introitu exhibita est, ubi visitatores libellos parvos sumere poterant.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Wood and Tree Tabula 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 Wood and Tree Tabula 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. Wood and Tree Tabula 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: It's a poster for an architecture seminar which is called "Wood & Tree" in Tokyo, Japan. The theme is about new possibility of application of wood which is a kind of classic material on modern architecture. So modern graphic language is used to simulate classic drawing to express annual ring. The main vision is mathematical but still can feel natural beauty.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 210mm x Height 297mm
Tags: Modern, mathematical, nature, minimal, geometric
Production Technology: Hundreds of annual ring's photo was collected as a reference. Adobe Illustrator is the main software to complete the poster.
Design Challenge: The hardest part is using mathematical graphic to simulate nature shape such as annual ring and expressing both aesthetics at the same time.
Research: The number, thickness, curvature, color, etc. of the lines have been extensively tested to express annual ring.
Inspiration: The inspiration is from annual ring. Wood is a kind of material without life. But different from other material, people can still feel vitality by the smell and texture and so on. The annual ring is the evidence which can prove it was lived as a tree. And the beautiful curve is intoxicating.
Project Duration: The project started in Aug 2018 and finished in September 2019 in Tokyo, and was exhibited in gallery of Myojyuji Saruein September 2018.
Operation Flow: It was displayed at the entrance, visiter could take the small flyers by themselves to understand the theme of the exhibition.
Team Members: Zhuang Yu
Image Credits: Image #1: illustrator Zhuang Yu, 2018.
Image #2: illustrator Zhuang Yu, 2018.
Image #3: illustrator Zhuang Yu, 2018.
Image #4: illustrator Zhuang Yu, 2018.
Image #5: illustrator Zhuang Yu, 2018.