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Wood and Tree Affisch by Yu Zhuang

Wood and Tree Affisch by Yu Zhuang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award i Silver in Grafik-, Illustrations- och Visuell Kommunikationsdesign Competition Category.


SilverGrafik· 2020

Wood and Tree Affisch

by Yu Zhuang

Client: Jia Saitama

A' Design Award i Silver Winner in Grafik Category

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The Design

About Wood and Tree Affisch

Wood and Tree är en affisch skapad för ett arkitekturseminarium som hölls i Tokyo, Japan. Seminariets tema är den nya användningen av trä, ett klassiskt material, inom modern arkitektur. Affischen använder ett modernt grafiskt formspråk för att efterlikna en klassisk teckning av årsringar. Linjer med varierande antal, tjocklek, krökning och färg testades för att bilda mönstret. Resultatet är matematiskt i sin struktur, men den naturliga skönheten består. Affischen mäter 210 gånger 297 millimeter. Den visades vid en entré, där besökarna kunde ta med sig små flygblad.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Silver

Wood and Tree Affisch är vinnare av A' Design Award i Silver, ett utomordentligt prestigefyllt erkännande som tilldelas förstklassiga, hänförande och imponerande designverk i toppskiktet. Silvervinnare är oerhört briljanta och utomordentligt kreativa verk som illustrerar sina formgivares enastående expertis, talang och skarpsinne. Wood and Tree Affisch förväntas vara ett underbart paradexempel som är anmärkningsvärt professionellt och djupt innovativt. Detta vinnande verk i A' Design Award i Silver är en mycket uppmärksammad, beundrad uppfinning som gagnar och flyttar fram gränserna för konst, vetenskap, design och teknik. Wood and Tree Affisch är en skapelse som avundas starkt, som väcker längtan, förmedlar positiva känslor och väcker förundran och häpnad.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
It's a poster for an architecture seminar which is called "Wood & Tree" in Tokyo, Japan. The theme is about new possibility of application of wood which is a kind of classic material on modern architecture. So modern graphic language is used to simulate classic drawing to express annual ring. The main vision is mathematical but still can feel natural beauty.
Dimensions & Packaging
Width 210mm x Height 297mm
Tags
Modern, mathematical, nature, minimal, geometric
Production Technology
Hundreds of annual ring's photo was collected as a reference. Adobe Illustrator is the main software to complete the poster.
Design Challenge
The hardest part is using mathematical graphic to simulate nature shape such as annual ring and expressing both aesthetics at the same time.
Research
The number, thickness, curvature, color, etc. of the lines have been extensively tested to express annual ring.
Inspiration
The inspiration is from annual ring. Wood is a kind of material without life. But different from other material, people can still feel vitality by the smell and texture and so on. The annual ring is the evidence which can prove it was lived as a tree. And the beautiful curve is intoxicating.
Project Duration
The project started in Aug 2018 and finished in September 2019 in Tokyo, and was exhibited in gallery of Myojyuji Saruein September 2018.
Operation Flow
It was displayed at the entrance, visiter could take the small flyers by themselves to understand the theme of the exhibition.
Team Members
Zhuang Yu
Image Credits
Image #1: illustrator Zhuang Yu, 2018.
Image #2: illustrator Zhuang Yu, 2018.
Image #3: illustrator Zhuang Yu, 2018.
Image #4: illustrator Zhuang Yu, 2018.
Image #5: illustrator Zhuang Yu, 2018.

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