All We Need is Love Affisch by Pin Gao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award i Brons in Grafik-, Illustrations- och Visuell Kommunikationsdesign Competition Category.

BronsGrafik· 2023

All We Need is Love Affisch

by Pin Gao

Client: Shenyang Jianzhu University

A' Design Award i Brons Winner in Grafik Category

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The Design

About All We Need is Love Affisch

All We Need is Love är en affisch som förenar kinesiska tecken med engelska bokstäver. Designen bygger på det kinesiska tecknet som betyder kärlek. Tecknet är format av fotografiska bilder och integrerar även de engelska bokstäverna l, o, v och e samt talet 2023. Fotografi och grafisk bearbetningsprogramvara användes för att skapa verket, som mäter 700 gånger 1000 millimeter. Affischen kan visas i offentliga miljöer. Syftet är att visa ett urgammalt kinesiskt tecken i en modern visuell form och att uttrycka idén om enhet och fred.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Brons

All We Need is Love Affisch är vinnare av A' Design Award i Brons, ett högst prestigefyllt erkännande som tilldelas enastående designverk som utmärker sig genom kreativitet, uppfinningsrikedom och klokhet. Bronsvinnare är mycket skickliga och slående kreativa föremål som styrker formgivarnas stora erfarenhet, fantasi och påhittighet. All We Need is Love Affisch förväntas vara ett högt skattat, beundrat och älskat föremål som är anmärkningsvärt professionellt och innovativt. Detta vinnande verk i A' Design Award i Brons införlivar bästa praxis inom konst, vetenskap, design och teknik och är utmärkt genom sin omsorg om detaljer. All We Need is Love Affisch tillfredsställer fantastiskt behov, rör vid längtan, charmar känslor och väcker nyfikenhet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is an innovative design using text elements. It is to excavate the new form of Chinese character art, take the Chinese characters as the prototype, and to make full use of photography technology to deduce its charm, making the text more visual. In this way, the ancient Chinese characters have a new visual display and transmission.
Dimensions & Packaging: 700 mm x 1000 mm
Tags: Poster, design, public service, visual communication
Production Technology: Photography and graphics processing software and other tools were used to create this design work.
Design Challenge: The challenge of this work is to design the ancient Chinese characters more visually and graphically without affecting the recognition of characters.
Research: By exploring the design history and development of English font elements, this work aims to investigate the methods and measures of the interaction design between Chinese and Western characters , so that more people can understand the art of Chinese characters, and establish more exchanges and cooperation between in the east and the west. This is an innovative design using text elements. It is to excavate the new form of Chinese character art, take the Chinese characters as the prototype, and to make full use of digital technology to deduce its charm, making the text more visual. In this way, the ancient Chinese characters have a new visual display and transmission.
Inspiration: The creative inspiration of this work comes from the visit in UK. After in-depth study of English fonts, an interesting idea came into being. a connection between Chinese and English is been established .The Chinese character “love" made from special images. it integrates English letter "l' "o" "v" "e" and 2023. It symbolizes the power of unity to unite into love, and wants to express the power of peace through this design. These ingenious design presents the perfect mixture of Chinese characters and English letters, and also makes the ancient Chinese characters show a new modern style.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2022 in London of UK and finished in November 2022.
Operation Flow: This work can be posted in the various public environments, in order to achieve the role of showing studio image and warning humans.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Gao Pin, Variations, 2022.
Optional Image #1 Illustrator Gao Pin
Optional Image #2 Illustrator Gao Pin
Optional Image #3 Illustrator Gao Pin
Optional Image #4. Illustrator Gao Pin