DESIGN NAME: Sound Wave Poster
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Poster
INSPIRATION: Misunderstanding is an unseen barrier in people’s mind. The influx of refugees from the Middle East into Europe, many social problems emerge, resulting in ethnic conflicts. Barriers to Middle East refugees are being formed. This poster engages the audience’s action from watching to listening, then thinking, and finally getting comprehension. With comprehension, people are more likely to break through the barriers in their heart, achieving mutual understanding and reconciliation.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This poster is not only be seen, but also be heard.
The barbed wire symbolizes the cold barriers between different nations due to the lack of comprehension. On this poster, the knots on the barbed wires are replaced by the sonic waves in different languages. The audiences can use the mobile APP to scan the waves, then they will hear the word ''Comprehension" in different languages from the mobile.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: When people watch posters and scan the sonic waves on poster through mobile phones, they can hear the voice of the word"Comprehension"in different languages, when they hear the voice of their native language, they are more ready to engage. This engagement can thus relieve the misunderstanding between different backgrounds, and improve the relationship between people in some sense.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in September 2017 and finished in December 2017 in Australia.
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The voices of different people are recorded, and edited in Adobe Audition. Then Adobe Photoshop and illustrator edited the sonic patterns. When the audiences watch, they scan the sonic graph on the poster with an acoustic scan app and listen to "Comprehension" in different languages.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Width 594 mm x Height 841 mm
TAGS: Sound Wave Poster, graphic design, Behaviour design,comprehension, mutual reconciliation
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Research covers the world's main language pronunciation "Comprehension."
CHALLENGE: 1. Gathering the voice with the pronunciation of Comprehension in different languages is a tough process.
2. Combination of sonic shapes and barbed wire is challenging. We have to make the shape look natural on the wires.
ADDED DATE: 2018-02-06 21:53:38
TEAM MEMBERS (3) : Hong Pang, Hu Yin and Jianan Dai
IMAGE CREDITS: Hong Pang, 2017.
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyrights belong to Hong Pang, 2017.
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