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Day Code Китайский Альманах by Wan Fen Chen

Day Code Китайский Альманах by Wan Fen Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Железная премия A' Design Award in Дизайн графики, иллюстрации и визуальных коммуникаций Competition Category.


ЖелезнаяГрафика· 2022

Day Code Китайский Альманах

by Wan Fen Chen

Client: Maruko Design Studio

Железная премия A' Design Award Winner in Графика Category

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The Design

About Day Code Китайский Альманах

На Тайване календари не только сообщают дату, но и могут предсказывать часы и какие знаки зодиака должны быть осторожны в течение этого дня, согласно календарю. Он включает в себя то, что можно легко сделать сегодня, а что следует отложить на какое-то другое время. Глядя на календарь, Ван Фен Чен всегда думает: а что, если Ван Фен Чен перенес информацию в календаре из печатных слов в значки? Страница будет выглядеть чудесно и уникально после транспонирования и перестановки. Так появился «Кодекс дня» — китайский альманах.

The Recognition

About the Железная премия A' Design Award

Day Code Китайский Альманах — лауреат Железной премии A' Design Award, престижного признания, присуждаемого хорошим проектам, которые отвечают профессиональным и промышленным требованиям, ожидаемым от хорошо продуманных творений. Обладатели Железной премии демонстрируют большое мастерство, высокую специализацию, экспертное понимание и творческие способности их авторов. Ожидается, что Day Code Китайский Альманах станет высокоценимым, вызывающим восхищение и дорогим сердцу творением, практичным и инновационным. Этот проект, получивший Железную премию A' Design Award, интегрирует лучшие отраслевые практики и обладает компетентными техническими характеристиками, сочетающимися с ноу-хау и талантом. Благодаря основательности Day Code Китайский Альманах заслуживает уважения и создан для того, чтобы улучшать качество жизни, помогая сделать мир лучше.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
On the calendar in Taiwan, in addition to providing information regarding the records of ancestors’ wisdom – lunar calendar. It also tells people to welcome good fortune and avoid bad omens every day. Nevertheless, the information is provided in verbal form. Day Code - Chinese Almanac presents signs transposed from words. It also filtered and deleted some suggestions for incompatibility in the regular lunar calendar and selected reminders suitable for modern people: marriage, business contract, opening a business, moving, etc. to remind them which items are suitable or unsuitable to be done today.
Dimensions & Packaging
w100 mm x d36 mm x h143 mm
Tags
Lunar calendar, calendar, graphic design, vintage, tiles with floral patterns
Production Technology
Risograph and Perfect Binding
Design Challenge
In the digital era and the modern times, few people use printed calendars. It may promote people’s intentions of using printed calendars by adding interesting and functions, such as: enlarging the note section, adding specially designed stickers for reminders, etc. to transform a regular calendar into a diary.
Research
Transpose words into simple and comprehensive graphics Using risograph technology, random derangement, uneven coloring, imperfect and unexpectable printing features adds a vintage feel. Traditional Taiwanese tiles with floral patterns and iron windows are used on the design to add Taiwanese style to the design. Now, the lunar calendar is commonly used by the Taiwanese in daily life. Therefore, in addition to dates of the solar calendar, the lunar calendar, corresponding to the wax and wane of the moon, are displayed completed.
Inspiration
Is today suitable for moving? In the 1960s to 1980s, on the walls of every family in Taiwan, calendars presented by xx companies or oo stores were hanging there. People tore off one page early in the morning to celebrate the coming of a new day. In addition to telling you the date, you could tell the fortune hours and which zodiac animals signs should be careful during that day, according to the calendar. It includes things that could be achieved smoothly today and which ones I should put aside for some other time. On this little piece of paper, many codes of daily life were hidden there.
Project Duration
The project started in January 2022 and finished in December 2022 in Taiwan
Operation Flow
No punch holes on the calendar. Pages are intact. The calendar is placed on a special rack to present a simple setting. On the note column and blanks, reminders of today can be written there. Using the corresponding reminder stickers, users can record things to do, time arrangement, thoughts, wish lists, etc. transforming a calendar into a diary.
Image Credits
Creator & Visuals: Wan Fen, Chen

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