Guangzhou Design Triennale 2024, China's first, focuses on "temperature." Touch-sensitive temperature connects people and objects. Visual identity design uses finger and screen operations, showcasing hand touch traces in exhibition materials. This feature is maintained consistently from posters to spatial graphics.
Identity / Digital Design
We have designed a typeface in which each letter is composed of both uppercase and lowercase forms. Regardless of whether uppercase or lowercase is used, each letter simultaneously exists in both cases. Education is a holistic process, and its true purpose is to nurture independent and complete individuals. Early childhood education has an impact on adults, and the state of adults reflects the education they received as children. From small to big, from big to small. Based on this typeface, we have designed a complete visual identity system for the kindergarten, employing the simplest layout to make the typeface dance on the logo, lively and dynamic.
Identity / Videos & Motion Graphics / Signage Design
2023: Handwritten ink seeps through notepaper, coexisting with printed fonts, offering a dual visual experience. / 2024: While the ink is still wet, folding and unfolding the paper causes different typefaces to overlap, showing honor to the classic UNIVERS typeface family.
Identity / Digital Design
The Guangzhou Triennial is China’s leading art exhibition held every three years. The theme “Symphony of All the Changes” highlights art's response to socio-cultural shifts during the pandemic.
Identity / Digital Design
Forum hosts key art schools from major bay areas worldwide to discuss tech and art education. Design features dynamic Chinese and English fonts, resembling a sparkling sea scene.
Identity / Videos & Motion Graphics
Southeast Asia, home to many overseas Chinese, introduced durian to China. Durian, sounding like “nostalgia” in Chinese, symbolizes overseas Chinese’s longing for home. The exhibition centers around durian, showcasing artworks reflecting the emotions of overseas Chinese towards China.
Book Design
Every year, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts delivers a special designing offer of admission for new students, which on the one hand promotes Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts to the public and on the other hand sends blessings and expectations to new students. In Chinese, “new students” and “new life” are same. This year's design is a birthday cake, also is an offer of admission to commemorate a new beginning in the life of College -- a new birthday in life. The cake is actually a scented candle. New students can light it, make a wish, blow it out. Happy new birthday!
Invitation Design
The Art Field Nanhai (Guangdong) Festival takes place in the rural areas of Nansha in Guangdong, China. Due to its reliance on the intricate water systems of the downstream Pearl River, this region has been the cradle of economic and cultural development for the people of Guangdong. However, with industrial shifts and the development of central cities, these rural areas have gradually declined. The festival aims to redirect people's attention to this area. The concept of visual image design is to convey the history of rural development relying on water sources through the spacing of words, depicting the process from unity to dispersion and then reintegration.
Identity
The book in simplified Chinese showcases CHIE MORIMOTO’s works and autobiography. The pictures and the text extend inward and outward, with typography projected on book's body for multi-angle design.
Book Design
Graduate 360° is an annual graduation design award. The award is sorted into 5 categories: Foundation research, Commercial Practice, social Concern, Technology Application, and Experiment&Concept. Design education is the relationship between input and output, and the output results will show new changes according to the future environment. This poster design using the simplest variable text（from TextEdit software）is the concept. It wants to respond to the current education environment to its professional nature. In China, the phone input method of the characters is “Pinyin”, which is the pronunciation of Chinese characters spelling expressions. “Pinyin” is expressed using 26 English letters as phonetic alphabets, which makes it very harmonious when Chinese and English are mixed, just like the same language. To distinguish between Chinese Pinyin and English, Chinese pinyin uses a black background. I incorporated this concept into the design.
Identity / Book Design
Started experimental graduation project at GAFA in 2022, focusing on integrated design. 11 students involved in exploring humanistic issues in tech era through integrated design concepts within a year.
Teaching / Exhibition Design
The competition requires participants to use recycled materials of coke bottles to design, highlights the extraordinariness of recycled materials. The poster relies on a horizontal grid to fold, making it three-dimensional.
Identity / Poster Design
Inspired by Chinese Livestream trend during the pandemic, the design concept emphasizes rapid information dissemination. Identity design showcases dynamic user messages, exploring timeliness of information.
Identity / Videos & Motion Graphics
Three-dimensional fonts are designed with Möbius loop inspiration, and the fonts are made of transparent material. GAFA letters are paired and layered, creating an illusion of interference and merging.
Identity / Videos & Motion Graphics
The event with the theme “Post-Information Era” features a forum and an exhibition. Chinese characters have undergone visual innovation in this era. Activity's identity design reflects this innovation.
Identity
Tian Bo’s PhD research exhibition, about the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm), the draft of the thesis, the manuscript of the thesis, and is recorded in the form of folders.
Exhibition design / Book Design
Paper scraps disrupt poster, highlighting conflict between pixel and printed fonts. Represents contemporary tech and design integration, the forum's theme.
Poster Design
Documenta exhibition features an equal dialogue between Chinese and international parts. Bilingual mixed typography with aligned text creates random character spacing differences.
Identity / Book Design