Day Code Almanak Cina by Wan Fen Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Beusi in Grafis Competition Category.

BeusiGrafis· 2022

Day Code Almanak Cina

by Wan Fen Chen

Client: Maruko Design Studio

A' Design Award Beusi Winner in Grafis Category

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The Design

About Day Code Almanak Cina

Di Taiwan, kalénder salian nyarios tanggalna, aranjeunna tiasa nyarioskeun jam rejeki sareng tanda-tanda sato zodiak anu kedah ati-ati dina dinten éta, numutkeun kalénder. Éta kalebet hal-hal anu tiasa dihontal kalayan lancar ayeuna sareng anu mana anu kedah disisihkeun pikeun sababaraha waktos sanés. Nalika ningali kalénder, Wan Fen Chen sok mikir: kumaha upami Wan Fen Chen ngalihkeun inpormasi dina kalénder tina kecap anu dicitak kana ikon? Kaca éta bakal katingali saé sareng unik saatos transposisi sareng nyusun ulang. Ku alatan éta, Kode Poé - Almanac Cina sumping kana mahluk.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Beusi

Day Code Almanak Cina mangrupa juara A' Design Award Beusi, pangakuan anu bergengsi anu dipasihkeun ka desain alus anu minuhan sarat profésional jeung industri anu diharepkeun tina kréasi anu dirarancang alus. Para juara Beusi nunjukkeun kaahlian anu hébat, spésialisasi anu luhur, pamahaman ahli jeung kamampuh kréatif para kréatorna. Day Code Almanak Cina diharepkeun jadi kréasi anu dihargaan, dikagumi jeung dipikanyaah anu praktis jeung inovatif. Desain juara A' Design Award Beusi ieu ngalebetkeun prakték pangalusna industri sarta ngabogaan ciri téknis anu mampuh pakait jeung pangweruh praktis jeung bakat. Day Code Almanak Cina dihormat pikeun katelitianana sarta dirarancang pikeun méré paningkatan kualitas hirup anu mantuan ngajadikeun dunya tempat nu leuwih hadé.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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