2 Shores 4 Places Poster Design 100% Exhibition

- venue
- Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China
Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan - date
- October, 2011-November, 2011
- size
- Portrait, (W) 700mm × (H) 1000mm
- creative
- Julius Hui
- art direction
- Julius Hui
- design
- Julius Hui
- fonts used
- DynaFont Li Song, Arnhem, Chinese Hexagram (own custom-made)
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description
2011 is the 100th anniversary of China's 1911 Xinhai Revolution. Series of celebration were held in greater China area, one of them was Poster Design 100% Exhibition. It was joint-held by Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China and Tainan University of Technology in Taiwan, invited 100 designers from 2 Shores 4 Places – China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, to design posters as a celebration of the 100th anniversary and expressed their personal scope of China within the topic of 100 and I was invited by Mr Kan Tai-Keung to joining the event.
I decided to talk about the past, present and future of China in my entry. I flooded 85% of the layout with calligraphic strokes, made it look like a big black burden on top, implicates our big historical burden. A timeline is at left, it counts from ancient time to Qing Dynasty, symbolising our long darkest feudal history finally came to an end at 1911, and the Chinese calendar counting at Xinhai. The middle-part of the timeline blurred up because the new Chinese history is disturbed by Second World War, after that everything went back to normal. I put [cont.] at the end as my scope to China, hoping everything will go on well. I had also designed a set of Chinese Hexagram symbols for the poster, as middle space of each character is the most important part that affecting the legibility, it is enlarged a bit for legibility.





