The Phoenix Plakat by Te-Sian Shih is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award i Jern in Grafikk, illustrasjon og visuell kommunikasjonsdesign Competition Category.

JernGrafikk· 2022

The Phoenix Plakat

by Te-Sian Shih

Client: Te-Sian Shih

A' Design Award i Jern Winner in Grafikk Category

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The Design

About The Phoenix Plakat

Fønix er en nøkkelvisuell plakat laget for et musikkakademi og en festival i Taipei. Det sentrale bildet kombinerer lydbølger med formen til en fiolin, og danner en føniks som brer ut vingene sine. De oransje bølgene i midten antyder også en flamme, som representerer musikernes og de ansattes innsats og entusiasme. Den mørkeblå bakgrunnen er bygget opp av buede linjer som minner om havet og lydbølger. Plakaten ble laget utelukkende med tegnede linjer, uten fotografier, ved bruk av blandingsmodus i bilderedigeringsprogramvare.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Jern

The Phoenix Plakat er vinner av A' Design Award i Jern, en prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles gode design som oppfyller de profesjonelle og industrielle kravene man forventer av veldesignede skaperverk. Jernvinnere viser stor dyktighet, høy spesialisering, ekspertforståelse og kreativ kapasitet hos skaperne. The Phoenix Plakat forventes å være et høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt skaperverk som er praktisk og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Jern, integrerer bransjens beste praksis og har kompetente tekniske egenskaper knyttet til kunnskap og talent. The Phoenix Plakat respekteres for sin grundighet og er utformet for å gi forbedringer i livskvalitet som bidrar til å gjøre verden til et bedre sted.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: She designed this key visual poster for Taipei Music Academy and Festival combines the violin with the image of flame, the phoenix, and the sea and music's sonic (music waves). The poster makes people feel the smooth lines, the sea's feeling, sonic waves, and musicians' enthusiasm.
Dimensions & Packaging: 18cm width x 0 cm dept x 24cm height
The lines should be thicker than 0.5 mm for printing, so she made each line in the poster thicker than 0.5 mm.
Tags: Visual design, poster design, layout design, key visual design, graphic design.
Production Technology: In adobe photoshop, the designer could choose a blend mode group.
She used lines to make two different shapes of images and combined them with adobe photoshop's multiply and color dodge to make the violin with phoenix's wings.
Besides, She made darken blue background with lines that look like waves.
Design Challenge: To create a poster without any real picture was a new challenge for 2021's poster design because, in 2020, the designer used the real violin's image to be the main character. This year she had to create the whole picture by herself.
Research: The trance-formations in eastern music performance are natural and flowing music style, floating clouds, and flowing water.
The shape in the background represents the feeling of flying in music and waves of music.

Besides, The center image combines music waves and a violin shape image, and it looks like a phoenix spreading its wings. The orange-colored waves in the center of the poster represent a flying phoenix. The phoenix represents hard work and the enthusiasm of musicians and all the staff.
Inspiration: The designer designed another key visual poster for Taipei Music Academy and Festival in 2020. She used the real violin's image to be Taipei Music Academy and Festival's main visual, so the team decided to use lines to communicate the abstract music feeling this year to separate the difference between 2020's key visual poster and 2021's poster.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2020 in Taipei and finished in December 2020 in Taipei, and it was exhibited in the United States in July 2021 due to Taipei's pandemic.
Operation Flow: When people look at the poster, they see the phoenix and violin combined image first.
When viewers follow the background's blue lines, their eyes will see the date, activity's name, and then sponsors' names on it.
Every image has logic to put in its place.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Te-Sian Shih, 2020.
Image Credits: Designer Te-Sian, Shih, phoenix, 2020.