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SOUL ODYSSEY, aizawa office | International Design Awards Winners
SOUL ODYSSEY, aizawa office | International Design Awards Winners

SOUL ODYSSEY

Companyaizawa office
Lead DesignersYukihiko Aizawa
ClientYukihiko Aizawa
Prize(s)Honorable Mention
Entry Description

A poster for the documentary film "SOUL ODYSSEY – In
Search of Eurasia" directed by Shinya Watanabe. The
film is trying to realize the dream of German artist
Joseph Beuys and Korean artist Nam June Paik, who
both considered the spatially divided Europe and Asia
to possess one single continental culture of EURASIA.
We designed to structurally visualize concepts of the
movie from a bird's-eye view. The film's screenplay
was written by superimposing the Asian concept of the
reincarnating “soul”, “Twelve Nidana” upon the
Western concept of the “odyssey”, “Hero’s Journey” by
Joseph Campbell, which is a common template among
all mythologies. Therefore, we integrate its purpose
and expression by symbolically dramatizing the fusion
of “Hero’s Journey” and “Twelve Nidana” diagrams, and
by making prominent use of “Trajan” font, based on
the characters commonly used for stone monuments
2,000 years ago.