Silver Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design · 2021
Finding Your Focus Visual Communication
by Min Huei Lu
- A' Design Award 2021 Silver Winner in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Academy of Art University
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 44,018
- Verification code 9808111FF6 · Verify this award
About Finding Your Focus Visual Communication
The designer aims to display a visual concept that demonstrates a conceptual and typographical system. Thus composition consists of a specific vocabulary, accurate measurements, and central specifications that the designer has taken into fine consideration. Also, the designer has aimed to establish a clear Typographic hierarchy to establish and move the order in which the audience receives information from the design.
Min Huei Lu's Finding Your Focus Visual Communication operates within the distinguished lineage of graphic design that bridges perceptual art experimentation with functional promotional communication, creating a work that serves both as aesthetic object and informational vehicle for a design conference exploring themes of creative concentration. The composition demonstrates remarkable sophistication in its deployment of concentric spiral forms, which simultaneously reference the Op Art investigations of the mid-twentieth century and the contemporary visual language of focused attention, the spirals themselves becoming visual metaphors for the narrowing and deepening of creative vision. The chromatic decisions reveal considered restraint, with the warm ochre spirals emerging from the cool navy ground to create vibrating optical boundaries that reward sustained viewing while never overwhelming the essential typographic content. The vertical celadon banner introduces a moment of cool respite within the warm-cool dialogue, its pale luminosity creating a natural focal point where primary textual information resides, demonstrating the designer's understanding of how color temperature guides hierarchical reading. The inclusion of a checkered transformation pattern in the lower left spiral suggests mathematical sophistication and dimensional play, evoking both tessellation traditions and contemporary digital morphing aesthetics. Typography throughout maintains clarity and legibility despite the visually complex environment, arranged in both vertical and horizontal orientations that create multiple entry points for information absorption. The work invites contemplation of how visual complexity can enhance rather than diminish communication effectiveness, suggesting that aesthetic richness and functional clarity need not exist in opposition. Viewers might consider how the spiral motif embodies the conference theme of focus, representing both the concentration of attention and the expansive creativity that emerges from disciplined looking.
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- Unique Properties
- Shifts in design, society, culture are constant and designers are forced to make tough decisions. Does a graphic designer take on type design? Should a visual artist delve into UX? Do type foundries dedicate more attention to web fonts? To be competitive, designers need to be competent in web, print, mobile, type design, and UX. Using illustration, color, typography, layout, and a variety of circular design elements to convey the idea of Focus.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Poster: 13 inch x19 inch
Event tickets: 1.97 inch x 5.63 inch - Tags
- Focus, Typographic, Type Poster
- Production Technology
- Adobe illustration. Adobe Indesign.
- Design Challenge
- Typography is the most important component of graphic design. The composition of a typeface consists of a specific vocabulary, accurate measurements, and central specifications that should always be identified and taken into consideration. Typographic hierarchy is the way to establish and move the order in which the audience receives information from the design.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2017 and finished in April 2017 in San Francisco.
- Operation Flow
- Various deliverables were developed, including a promotional campaign, website, design app, publication, and TYPO design conference.
- Research
- Created materials for a hypothetical or an existing conference. Designed a visual concept that demonstrates a conceptual and typographical system. The typographic grid-pattern experiments were created for the 2017 International Design Conference - TYPO Focus.
- Inspiration
- Created materials for a hypothetical or an existing conference. Designed a visual concept that demonstrates a conceptual and typographical system.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Creator Min Huei Lu
Image #2: Creator Min Huei Lu
Image #3: Creator Min Huei Lu
Image #4: Creator Min Huei Lu
Image #5: Creator Min Huei Lu
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