Wuhan Diary Diário Visual by Yu Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Prata in Design Gráfico, Ilustração e Comunicação Visual Competition Category.

PrataGráfico· 2021

Wuhan Diary Diário Visual

by Yu Chen

Client: Hubei University of Technology

A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Gráfico Category

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The Design

About Wuhan Diary Diário Visual

Wuhan Diary é um diário visual sobre o quotidiano em Wuhan durante a pandemia. O projeto recorre à programação para construir linguagens visuais baseadas em relevos topográficos, a partir de opiniões públicas recolhidas e de dados de casos confirmados. A cor e a densidade das formas montanhosas ondulantes exprimem o ambiente social e as mudanças de humor de cada período. Uma forma tridimensional de terreno foi criada a partir de dados parametrizados em Unity. Wuhan Diary apresenta-se como um cartaz de 420 por 594 milímetros, acompanhado de motion graphics, realidade aumentada e projeção interativa.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Prata

Wuhan Diary Diário Visual conquistou o A' Design Award de Prata, um reconhecimento extraordinariamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de topo de gama, deslumbrantes e impressionantes. Os vencedores da Prata são obras tremendamente brilhantes e extremamente criativas que ilustram a perícia, o talento e a acuidade excecionais dos seus designers. Espera-se que Wuhan Diary Diário Visual seja uma obra maravilhosa e de referência, notavelmente profissional e profundamente inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Prata é uma invenção muito notável e admirada, que beneficia e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Wuhan Diary Diário Visual é uma criação imensamente invejada que desperta desejos, traz sentimentos positivos e faz nascer espanto e deslumbramento.

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.
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