Iron Social · 2021
Anonymousociety Social Critique Design
by Yan Yan
- A' Design Award 2021 in Social
- CLIENT: Yan Yan
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 19,956
- Verification code A97CF32B35 · Verify this award
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About Anonymousociety Social Critique Design
Anonymousociety is a social critique design project. In this project. Yan Yan created a non-existent secret organization named Anonymousociety. Anonymousociety wants to create a safe house where people can hide from the spotlights, escape from the attention, and let go of themselves. While creating this project, Yan Yan was using a mockumentary perspective to document the existence of Anonymousociety. This series of design works include a fan-made website, a magazine, a set of instructions and flyers etc.
About the A' Design Award
Anonymousociety Social Critique Design is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Anonymousociety Social Critique Design is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Anonymousociety Social Critique Design is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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- Unique Properties
- Anonymousociety is a social critique design project. In this project. Yan Yan created a non-existent secret organization named Anonymousociety. Anonymousociety wants to create a safe house where people can hide from the spotlights, escape from the attention, and let go of themselves. While creating this project, she was using a mockumentary-perspective to document the existence of Anonymousociety. This series of design works include a fan-made website, a magazine, a set of instructions and flyers etc.
- Tags
- Social Critique Design, Social Impact Design, Social Surveillance, Performance Identity
- Production Technology
- This project is a web-based and print-based project. The main content are staying online as a website and show as posters and book.
- Design Challenge
- The main challenge for the designer is to develop her creative thinking methodology. After about half of a year's learning and testing, she understood herself more and found a way of thinking and making.
- Inspiration
- This project started with some moments Yan Yan had been through. Who is the real me? Is it the one shown under people’s eyes, or the one hidden away from people’s gaze? Am I shaped by other people's gaze, or am I shaped by myself? People now live in a world that's overly exposed to social media, reality TV shows, and YouTube. Society forces people to unwillingly expose themselves, regardless of whether they are in public or in private.
- Project Duration
- This project took 6 months in San Francisco to finish, The world of Anonymousociety is still expanding.
- Operation Flow
- The audience can review this project by reading the magazine, looking at the posters or browsing the website.
