Recently, the winners of the 34th Golden Rooster Award Poster Design Competition were announced, the work The Mighty Rooster, The Dawn of the East created by Zhou Zhipeng, a teacher from School of Textiles and Fashion SUES, won the first prize.
The 34th Golden Rooster Award Poster Design Competition was jointly sponsored by the China Film Association and the propaganda department of the CPC Xiamen Municipal Committee. The competition attracts so many domestic and international designers, that a total of 1610 poster design works were collected. After the preliminary evaluation, public voting, re-evaluation, final evaluation and copyright public announcement, a total of 12 winning entries were selected for the first, second and third prizes.
Zhou Zhipeng’s work The Mighty Rooster, The Dawn of the East presents an image of a rooster with Chinese ink imagery. Through the vivid expression and powerful overall shape of the painting, it signifies the rich cultural heritage and spirit of the times of the majestic China: the rooster’s feathers incorporate the concept of film stock. The red petals at the top of the painting are inspired by the Xiamen city flower, the Bougainvillea spp, implies Xiamen, the host city of Golden Rooster Awards, is like a red sun. The work symbolizes prosperity and hope: the rooster crows in the morning while the red sun is rising in the east.
Zhou Zhipeng attends live events of CCTV Movie Channel, December 28
Zhou Zhipeng joined SUES in 2006 and mainly teaches graphic design, fashion photography and computer software courses. His design works were selected for the first national graphic design exhibition (China Art Association), and his science works won the third prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Popularization Award. Zhou Zhipeng said that the award is just a microcosm of the rapid development of School of Textiles and Fashion as well as SUES, he showed his appreciation for providing a good platform for the development of the faculty.