immiscible
Yiyang Li
immiscible
Yiyang Li
- Hook
- A four-panel board of object and installation documentation rather than a poster: a translucent box standing on a grey floor, a top-down view of three white boxes with glass beakers on a printed sheet, a translucent sheet leaning against a white corner, and a flat arrangement of printed cards and a folded item.
- Hierarchy
- The object silhouettes and their shadows lead, the small colour-flecked text block second, and its actual content last.
- Energy
- All text is set extremely small in a plain sans, packed into narrow left-aligned blocks that sit low on transparent surfaces; individual lines are coloured differently, so the text reads as a fine multicoloured texture before it reads as words.
- Transfer
- Colour can live inside the type itself rather than in blocks or backgrounds — vary hue line by line at a small size when you need vibrancy while keeping a layout mostly empty.
Why it works
Holding the whole system at one tiny type size in a vast neutral field makes material and transparency the loudest variables, and colouring type line by line adds vibrancy without breaking the calm.
What to borrow
Colour can live inside the type itself rather than in blocks or backgrounds — vary hue line by line at a small size when you need vibrancy while keeping a layout mostly empty.
Look closer
CompositionOpenClose
A four-panel board of object and installation documentation rather than a poster: a translucent box standing on a grey floor, a top-down view of three white boxes with glass beakers on a printed sheet, a translucent sheet leaning against a white corner, and a flat arrangement of printed cards and a folded item. Every frame places a small amount of matter in a large empty grey or white field.
TypographyOpenClose
All text is set extremely small in a plain sans, packed into narrow left-aligned blocks that sit low on transparent surfaces; individual lines are coloured differently, so the text reads as a fine multicoloured texture before it reads as words.
HierarchyOpenClose
The object silhouettes and their shadows lead, the small colour-flecked text block second, and its actual content last.
Image strategyOpenClose
Photography documents physical artefacts in situ, using soft shadows and translucency so the same text block is seen through material, printed flat, and reproduced at card scale.
Color strategyOpenClose
Neutral white and grey dominates almost entirely; colour appears only inside the tiny type, where green, blue, magenta, and orange lines alternate, giving saturation without any coloured area.
Still to be written: Concept · Negative space · Texture · Production
Notes by POSTER INDEX — observational analysis from official Tokyo TDC asset
Source + details
- Year
- 2026
- Source
- Tokyo Type Directors Club
- Edition
- Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2026
- Competition
- Mark & Logotype/Branding, Poster B
- Award
- TDC Prize
- Country
- Not recorded
- Type
- Not recorded
- Theme
- Not recorded
- Style
- Editorial Minimalism, Photographic
- Typography
- Not analyzed yet
- Colour
- Not analyzed yet
- Density
- Not analyzed yet
- Imagery
- Not analyzed yet
- Provenance
- Verified · official source
- Source note
- Client: Kingston School of Art, MFA Fine Art Department · Category: Mark & Logotype/Branding, Poster B
- Image
- External hotlink
- Image note
- Official Tokyo TDC asset · external hotlink · not owned by POSTER INDEX
- Image credit
- Tokyo Type Directors Club
- Record ID
- tdc-2026-010-immiscible
Source URL: https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2026-results/
Image source: https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2026-results/
Designers: Yiyang Li
Also in Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2026
- Futura®100 MultiscriptVeronika Burian, José ScaglioneGrand Prize
- A Meaningful OrderOK-RM (Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath)Book Design Prize
- MomochidoriRyoko Nishizuka, Frank GrießhammerType Design Prize
- The GraffitiRyo OrikasaRGB Prize
- Tsuguya Inoue Graphics +81 ExhibitionTsuguya InoueSpecial Prize
- cosmo-typesetting automatonYoichi AzegamiTDC Prize