2017 Design Challenge

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2O17 Design Challenge

This is a year long project inspired by an article I read about a graphic designer who challenged himself to post a non-work related design post on dribble every day for an entire year. In fact I think this design challenge then becomes quite popular among the design industry.

I knew with my work schedule I would never be able to come up with one design a day; so I decided to challenge myself to design a poster a week for the year of 2017.

However regrettably I am here to tell you that I have failed miserably.

Not only because work got in the way but also because I would become obsessed with certain week’s design and then it would evolve into a complex design that would take me month(s) to complete.

For a year (365 days) I should have 52 designs if I finish a design once a week.
Sadly I only completed 18 designs. And I even cheated on some of them, since some of them are elements I worked on at work or concepts I recycled from work projects.

But with these 18 posters I have somehow documented one of the most important years in my design career,
the year of 2017.

這個耗時一年的作品靈感來自於一篇文章關於一個平面設計師挑戰自己一年內在dribble每天上傳一個和工作不相關的設計 (一年共365個作品)，這個設計挑戰現在好像也在設計界頗有名氣。

我知道以我的工作時數我不可能每天都設計一個和工作不相關的作品，所以我決定於2017年挑戰每週設計一張海報。

但是不幸的這個挑戰我徹底失敗了，不只是因為有時候工作實在太忙，也因為有幾週我會瘋狂的迷戀上我正在做的設計進而讓這週的設計需要花上數週(月)來完成。

一年365天若我一週完成一個作品我總共應該要完成52張海報，但是我只完成了18個設計。一些設計我甚至還小小的作弊，我會使用我工作上完成的一些元素或是一些工作上沒使用到的概念在這些海報上。

但是透過這18個作品我卻碰巧的紀錄了我設計生涯中很重要的一年: 2017

In 2017 I experimented with different techniques like watercolor and calligraphy in my works, and more importantly I started learning Sketchup and blender 3D. I am still not an expert in 3D in any way, but learning how to create three dimensional art opened up a whole new door to me in terms of design. And work-wise because I learned how to use 3D software, I was able to design more complex signage and feature walls.

在2017這一年裡我實驗了許多不同的技法，包括書法．水彩等，而最重要的在這一年我開始學習Sketchup 和 blender3D 等軟體。對於3D軟體我還是相當初階但光是學習如何製作立體的作品就對我在設計這一行開啟了立一扇大門，工作方面也由於我開始使用了3D繪圖軟體我能夠設計更多立體招牌．造型牆等作品。

Here are some stills from the posters:

以下是一些海報中的場景:

The Exhibition

Then I decided to create an exhibition to showcase the product of this design challenge.

I built the exhibition in 3D with a glass centerpiece to anchor the room.

之後我決定創造一個展覽來展現這個設計挑戰的所有作品，

我在3D軟體中創建了這個展覽空間並在展覽的中心設計了一個玻璃裝置作為整個空間的第一印象及焦點。

The Glass Centerpiece

The glass centerpiece is the first thing the viewer sees when he walks into the exhibition. The installation plays with perspective and when one sees it straight-on the numbers 2O17 appears to be parallel to each other, like the numbers in the posters. But as the viewer start to walk around the room he would discover that the numbers are actually in glass boxes with different placement and slightly different in sizes so from the front they would appear to be parallel. This way the glass centerpiece becomes a 360 degree experience, it would look different from every angle.

位於展覽中心的玻璃裝置是觀賞者走進展覽的第一印象，玻璃裝置利用透視的技法讓數字2O17從正面看時貌似處於同一個水平面上，就像海報中的數字一般。但當參觀者走進展場開始環繞時他會發現裝置中的這四個數字其實位於不同位置及不同大小的玻璃箱中，藉此玻璃裝置成為了一個環繞全景的體驗，從每一個角度看裝置都會有不同的視覺效果。