The Prelude Exhibition of The First Shanghai Graphic Design Biennale – TopoPoster: International Poster Design Exhibition, after six months (June – December, 2025) of planning and preparation, was successfully held from December 13 to December 22, 2025. As one of the larger-scale exhibitions in recent years featuring an international selection of works in China, it showcased over 300 representative poster designs from 153 influential contemporary designers and studios active in the forefront of the field across 28 countries.

幻想交响曲-纪念柏辽兹诞辰220周年

2023年是法国作曲家埃克托·柏辽兹（1803-1869）诞辰220周年，为纪念这个特殊年份，我以《幻想交响曲》作为主题为柏辽兹故居博物馆设计了这组系列海报。

《幻想交响曲》是柏辽兹最有影响力的一部作品，乐曲以标题音乐的形式描述了作曲家对梦中人的一系列幻想：从憧憬到遇见到怀疑到杀害再到毁灭，充分表达了个体情感的变化，与以往交响乐宏大叙事的特点形成鲜明的差异；在技巧层面，这部作品也体现了柏辽兹对管弦乐语法的大胆创新：充满想象力的旋律与和声、颠覆的配器音色以及贯穿每个乐章的固定乐思等等…这部交响曲的诞生标志着浪漫主义音乐的正式开启。

这组系列海报一共有五张，对应着《幻想交响曲》的五个乐章。海报以字体编排的形式出发，对五个乐章的标题进行设计，其中运用了西文书法、手绘文字和字形设计等不同的文字设计手法，回应乐曲在作曲与编曲上的人本主义和细腻巧思；海报的印刷选用了不同颜色的艺术纸，并结合画面中的三维效果搭配不同烫印工艺，以鲜明质感来呼应作曲家对乐器音色的极限尝试，也传递出曲中憧憬、美妙、凄凉、诡异、癫狂的丰富情绪。正如乐章标题对乐曲的描述，这组海报对乐章标题进行字体设计和编排，以视觉方式来表现其传达出的有关乐曲的内容与情感。

“Symphonie Fantastique” Poster design for @museehectorberlioz to commemorate the 220th anniversary(1803-2023) of the great composer Hector Berlioz’s birth.

“Symphonie Fantastique” is the most influential work of Berlioz. The symphony describes a series of fantasies from the composer about his dream lover in the form of program music: from longing to meeting to doubting to killing and then to destruction, it fully expresses the changes of individual emotions, forming a sharp difference with the grand narrative characteristics of previous symphonies. On the technical level, this symphony also embodies Berlioz’s bold innovations in orchestral grammar: imaginative melody and harmony, subversive orchestration timbre, and “fixed idea” throughout each movement, etc… The birth of this work marks the opening of romantic music.

There are five posters in this series, corresponding to the five movements of “Symphonie Fantastique”. I designed the titles of the five movements starting from the form of typography, among them, different type design methods such as calligraphy, lettering and typeface design are used to respond to the humanism and delicate ingenuity of the composition and arrangement of the music. The posters are printed on art papers of different colors, and combined with the 3D effects in the picture and different hot stamping techniques, using strong sense of texture to echo the Berlioz’s extreme attempt on the sound of musical instruments, and also conveys the rich emotions of longing, beauty, desolation, weirdness, and madness of the music. Just as the titles of the movement describe the music, I designed the shape of titles and arrange the layout to express the content and emotion of the music it conveys.

Wu Siguang

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