Qin Taxane Bousteelooyin by Kaidi Mao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award in Naqshadeynta Garaafigga, Sawir-gacmeedka iyo Isgaarsiinta Muuqaalka Competition Category.

NaxaasGaraafig· 2021

Qin Taxane Bousteelooyin

by Kaidi Mao

Client: Kaidi Mao

Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award Winner in Garaafig Category

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The Design

About Qin Taxane Bousteelooyin

Qin waa taxane bousteelo ah oo dib u fasira dhaqanka rinjiyeynta dhulka Shiinaha (landscape painting) iyadoo la adeegsanayo warbaahinta dhijitaalka ah. Magaca Qin wuxuu ka yimid ereyga Shiinaha ah oo macnihiisu yahay in wax ku faafo ama ku dhex galo, xarafkiisa qoranna wuxuu isku daraa calaamadaha biyaha iyo qalbiga. Sawirrada waxay ka bilaabmaan sawir-qaadis, ka dibna waxaa lagu horumariyaa qalabka dhijitaalka ah sida Photoshop, Cinema 4D iyo Procreate. Taxanaha waxaa lagu soo saaray laba cabbir, waxaana lagu soo bandhigi karaa daabacaad ama shaashad, hoolka fanka ama guriga. Ujeeddadu waa in la muujiyo aragtida Taoist ee dabiiciga ah dhagayste caalami ah.

The Recognition

About the Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award

Qin Taxane Bousteelooyin waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf sare leh oo la siiyo naqshado aan caadi ahayn oo lagu garto hal-abuur, hal-abuur cusub iyo caqli. Guuleystayaasha Naxaasta waa shaqooyin xirfad buuxda leh iyo hal-abuur yaab leh oo xaqiijiya khibrad weyn, male-awaal iyo kartida naqshadeeyayaashooda. Qin Taxane Bousteelooyin waa walax la filayo inay noqoto mid aad loo tixgeliyo, la ixtiraamo oo la jecel yahay, xirfad cad leh oo hal-abuur cusub leh. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award wuxuu ku darsadaa hab-dhaqanno ugu wanaagsan farshaxanka, sayniska, naqshadaynta iyo tignoolajiyada wuxuuna ku fiican yahay dhawrista tafaasiisha. Qin Taxane Bousteelooyin si fiican ayay u buuxisaa baahiyaha, taabataa rabitaannada, soo jiidataa dareenka kicinayaanna xiisaha aqoonta.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Kaidi Mao's examination of the aesthetic and intellectual tradition of Chinese landscape painting has enabled him to understand the connection between classical Chinese painters and their natural environments. To explore such painting's relationship to nature in a contemporary context, Mao has used today's technology to produce digital images inspired by the traditions of China.
Dimensions & Packaging: There are two sizes for this poster series: 24 inches x 36 inches, and 24 inches x 30 inches
Tags: Art, poster, Taoism, culture, landscape, painting
Production Technology: The initial images are from photography, then digitally created using tools like Photoshop, Cinema 4D and Procreate.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge of this project is to visually communicate this East Asian worldview to international viewer, especially under the current political environment.
Research: This project is a pictorial reinterpretation of Chinese painters' use of nature to communicate the Taoist notion that the whole planet is permeated by invisible Tao, "the Way of the cosmos, which is evident in nature." Mao has titled this project Qin. Qin, comes from the Chinese word, which means "to permeate", "to seep into". This project allows different cultures, concepts and methods to seep together. The character Qin consists of two parts: the left represents water, and the right represents the heart. Heart can be interpreted as the depth of one's feelings, and when combined with water, expresses something that comes from one's innermost being. Qin explores the aesthetic depth with which Chinese culture responds to, reveres, and honors the natural environment by reexamining pictorial traditions using contemporary digital image production. It also serves as an expression of the connection felt by a producer of such imagery with the underlying concept of Tao that inexpressibly permeates universal being in the Chinese tradition.
Inspiration: As a designer from China living in the United States, I have sought to integrate my training in contemporary design with my personal and cultural identity. This has come through an examination of different media and technological approaches. This process has led me to a series of digitally produced design pieces that examine my own Chinese pictorial tradition. These works have also allowed me an alternative approach to understanding The Natural within my practice.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2019, finished in May 2020 in Los Angeles.
Operation Flow: These posters/graphic arts can be displayed physically and digitally, in a gallery setting or in a home setting.