The Wind Knows We Meet Série de Ilustrações by Ji Duan

The Wind Knows We Meet Série de Ilustrações by Ji Duan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design Gráfico, Ilustração e Comunicação Visual Competition Category.

BronzeGráfico· 2026

The Wind Knows We Meet Série de Ilustrações

by Ji Duan

Client: Ji Duan

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Gráfico Category

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The Design

About The Wind Knows We Meet Série de Ilustrações

"O Vento Sabe que Nos Encontramos" é uma série de ilustrações sobre encontros e companheirismo na vida urbana contemporânea. O vento é utilizado como metáfora para encontros significativos. A série aplica perspectivas dramáticas, tons quentes castanho-avermelhados e luz e sombra acolhedoras para criar uma atmosfera aberta e inclusiva. Amplas paisagens urbanas e grupos animados de personagens são desenhados com software de pintura digital. A série de ilustrações responde ao distanciamento social da era digital e convida o espectador a construir conexões emocionais na vida real.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

The Wind Knows We Meet Série de Ilustrações conquistou o A' Design Award de Bronze, um reconhecimento altamente prestigiado atribuído a designs notáveis que se distinguem pela criatividade, engenho e perspicácia. Os vencedores do Bronze são artefactos amplamente habilidosos e surpreendentemente criativos que comprovam a vasta experiência, imaginação e capacidade de iniciativa dos seus designers. Espera-se que The Wind Knows We Meet Série de Ilustrações seja um objeto muito considerado, admirado e estimado, notavelmente profissional e inovador. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Bronze incorpora as melhores práticas em arte, ciência, design e tecnologia e é excelente pela sua atenção ao detalhe. The Wind Knows We Meet Série de Ilustrações satisfaz esplendidamente necessidades, toca desejos, encanta sentimentos e desperta curiosidade.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The illustration series interprets encounters through expansive city landscapes and animated ensembles of characters. Using dramatic perspective, reddish brown warm tones, and warm light and shadow, the series creates an open and immersive atmosphere that vividly conveys the core idea that through encounters we grow, encouraging viewers to build emotional connections in the real world.
Dimensions & Packaging: The use of professional software like Photoshop and Procreate, along with the pressure-sensitive graphics tablet, ensures smooth lines and clear color grading. Strict adherence to the ISO 12646 color calibration standard guarantees that the visual details and colors remain consistent across different media, such as digital screens and printed materials, without any distortion or color shifts.
Tags: Urban Life, Interpersonal Distance, Emotional Connection, Encounters and Companionship, Wind, Dramatic Perspective, Warm Light and Shadow, Visual Storytelling
Production Technology: During creation, Procreate was used for concept development and preliminary drawing, ensuring expressive and accurate forms. SAI, with its smooth brushstrokes, was used for large area coloring, producing clean and vibrant tones. Photoshop was used to shape light and shadow, refine details, and enhance the overall atmosphere, unifying and elevating the visual impact of the series.
Design Challenge: The design challenge was to transform the philosophical idea of human connections with the world and with one another and the emotional experience of warm encounters into a concrete visual language. The designer maps out relationships through composition, conveys emotion through color, and embeds meaning in symbolic elements to illustrate people’s complex emotions in cities, achieving a harmony between artistic expression and emotional resonance.
Research: The illustration series is grounded in a fundamental insight. As social beings, humans have an intrinsic need for genuine encounters and warm companionship. Yet, the fast pace of modern urban life and overreliance on digital interactions exacerbate social isolation and emotional disconnection, which runs counter to human nature. The series seeks to bridge gaps among people through artistic illustration, fostering a deep sense of human connection in society.
Inspiration: The Wind Knows We Meet draws inspiration from the interpersonal challenges arising in the digital era where people are becoming more connected online yet more distant in real life. The designer, having experienced the loneliness and longing for companionship in fastpaced cities, chose to tell stories through illustration. By capturing fleeting yet precious moments often lost in digital life, the illustration guides viewers back to emotional connections in the real world.
Project Duration: Designed and developed in Beijing in December 2024, the project was launched in China in December 2025.
Operation Flow: The series employs dramatic perspective to emphasize spatial depth and the grandeur of urban architecture, creating an open, inclusive atmosphere that enhances immersion. Reddish brown tones, set against the glow of warm sunlight, enhance the human touch and familiarity of the scenes. Wind runs as a guiding thread, weaving the series together. A wellbalanced, layered layout guides users to reflect on urban life and interpersonal relationships.
Team Members: JI DUAN