Wang Hongwei
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Professional Title: Associate Professor
Master Supervisor
Social Titles:
Committee Member of China Packaging Association
Member of Review Committee for China Design Yearbook
Member of Hong Kong Designers Association
Member of Beijing Higher Education Self-study Examination Committee
Visiting Professor at the School of Arts & Design, Woosong University, Korea
Visiting Professor at the School of Art Design, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
Research Direction:
A. Chinese Character Design and Editing Design
B. Overall Book Design
Academic Proposition:
Philosophy is the core of culture while the Chinese calligraphy is the core of Chinese philosophy. Calligraphy represents a symbol that reflects the meaning of modeling; literature is the content that shows the realm of philosophy. Typeface design is the parent of graphic design while the book is the carrier of typeface. A good designer knows how to tell a story via words, how to express information via layout and how to build structural space for a book. Typeface and layout are a comprehensive reflection of a designer’s professional quality. The evolution of characters also represents a history of graphic design. As one of the existing oldest writings used by human, Chinese character gives an expression to the Oriental’s aesthetic value. It is necessary to analyze and study the word-forming and word-combining characteristics in different times from the perspectives of design, physiology, psychology and semiology. The possibilities of new printing typeface design can be explored through studying the design law and method of headline word and text word of printing typeface.
The overall book design includes topic planning, content and visual editorial design, material selection and information integration of the whole printing process. The exploration of design language for different kinds of books stresses the unification between logic thinking and imagery thinking, between aesthetics and functionality. Books are not a quiet decoration from book morphology to context conveying. The reader communicates and interacts with the book during reading and the book becomes a living thing that can control time and space.
Teaching Overview:
Major undergraduate courses: Script Design, Typography and Editorial Design, Book Design, etc.
Major postgraduate courses: courses for Visual Communication Design major
Academic Achievements:
Monographs:
1990 New Examples of Decorative Sketches
1991 Fashionable Typeface Design
1996 Textbook for visual communication design teaching - Plane Structure
1997 Typeface/Books/Design, an appointed textbook for self-taught higher education entrance examination
2006 Traveling in a Book Design World (team work)
2008 Dialogues, a design foundation textbook for the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University (team work)
2008 Literary World, a book design textbook for the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Graduation Projects Supervised by Wang:
Research on Unification Design of Magazine
Reading Design and Research on Interactive E-magazine
Research on China Comic Strip in the 20th Century
Research on Systematic Design for Vyou.com.cn
Major Projects Led by Wang:
1. Overall design and production for Collected Paintings at Ziguang Pavilion, Zhong Nan Hai commissioned by General Office of the State Council and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
2. Large painting album State Power Dispatching Center for State Power Bureau
5. Large painting album Legacy and Transcending, a design work for international bidding design program for new school site for the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
6. Overall design for China Design Yearbook
7. Overall design for Decoration magazine
8. Overall design for A Collection of China Hundred Designers
9. Painting album for the 40th Anniversary Celebration of Shangri-La, Diqing, Yunnan
10. Stamp album for the 60th Anniversary Celebration of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
11. 2007’ Women’s World Cup Stamp Album
13. Ancient Chinese Ceramic Painting, an official gift book for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
14. 2009 Most Beautiful Hainan – a gift book for Hainan International Tourism Island
15. Design of Visual Identity (VI) for China Hi-tech Group Corporation – a state-owned enterprise directly supervised by the central government and one of Fortune Top 500 in 2009
13. A Witness of the History in the Past 50 Years – Art Design Works by Chen Hanmin
16. Overall plan and gift design for Chinese Economists 50 Forum
Current Research Project:
Research on Design for “Harmony” CRH Train
Prizes and Honors:
1993 Typeface design won prize at 1993’ Japan Osaka International Typesetting Competition
1995 Book design won Gold Prize for Central Exhibition Area and Bronze Prize for National Exhibition Area at the 4th National Book Design Art Exhibition
1998 Silver Prize for Central Exhibition Area at the 5th National Book Design Art Exhibition
2002 Two posters won the Silver Prize in the 1st China Design Competition
2002 A poster selected in the China-Japan-Korea Invitational Exhibition held in Japan
2003 Selected prize in the 2nd Chinese Graphic Design Competition
2004 Book design selected in the “Book Design Art in China” invitational exhibition in Korea
2004 Two sets of VI designs won the Prize of China Excellent Design
2004 Silver Prize, the 10th National Fine Arts Exhibition
2005 Silver Prize, Prize of Excellence at the 6th National Book Design Exhibition
2006 A poster selected into the China-Korea Poster Design Exhibition
2008 Participated in the China Book Design Exhibition (Beijing and Frankfurt)
2009 Participated in the Hand-made Book International Invitational Exhibition held in Cheongju, Korea
2009 A number of his design works won Prize of Best Creation and Prize of Excellence at the 7th National Book Design Art Exhibition
