Taipei, Taiwan

While in Taipei last week, I joined the teeming throngs (over 1 million visitors!) in a visit to the Design Expo held in conjunction with the 2011 IDA World Design Congress. I had earlier contributed four posters to Intertidal Age | 2011 International Graphic Design Exhibition in response to an invitation to submit works to “a grand celebration of outstanding designers around the globe… a showcase of multidisciplinary cultural, artistic, and societal designs.”

The call for entries had outlined four thematic axes— “Love, Link, Simple” and “Haven”—with the stated objective “to express and represent the stories of our era.” As somewhat of a departure from how I usually approach poster design projects (the terms of reference were vague, almost obtuse—I decided to respond in kind) I had compiled and submitted four colorful compositions, playing with juxtapositions of images, symbols, and saturated hues.

Shown above: my posters for “Love” and “Simple” along with some in-situ snapshots from the exhibition venue (my posters were shown in both wall-mounted exhibits [each “theme” had a separate gallery] and as large, moving, projected images that rotated around the entire exhibition space).