
The 3rd Animals Asia Poster Design Competition
The first place is won by Ms Yang Mengyun, whose work is “Brightness and Fear”. Yang explained her idea: brightness is good for human. We don’t connect anything scary to brightness. But to stray animals it is not the same. Exposed under the sun or light means they can easily be spotted by dog or cat dealers, I guess they’d rather to be living in the darkness, where they can hide themselves and be far away from bad people. It is very likely that the cat and dog meat served in restaurants is from stray animals, I hope everyone can realize what they are eating.
Yang is a design-majored university student from Wuxi, Jiangsu. She has seen stray animals on her campus, and sometimes she feeds them. “I hope one day when people see stray animals, they wouldn’t think of eating or hurting them. So that the stray cats or dogs can play under the sun, relax and enjoy their free lives. ”
Mr. Nie Chonghao’s work “Companion” won the 2nd place of the competition. He explained: cats and dogs should be our friends, to loss a friend just because someone wants to eat, that is too sad. Like Yang, Nie is also a university student major in art design. He loves animals since he was small. One of the prizes of the competition is to visit the moon bear rescue centre of Animals Asia in Chengdu. He was very impressed by what he saw during the visit. “I didn’t realize that the bear bile capsules contain so much pain! In my design, the paw prints beside the footprints not only stands for companion animals like cats and dogs, but also for all the animals existed in the world. I hope animals would not die out only because human want to eat them, or kill them for ridiculous reasons. ”
Sheng’s work is quite intriguing. From the images we can tell, that Sheng wants to deliver the message that dogs are the beloved family member, the best friend and a playful partner of their owners. Once the dogs become a dish, it would break the entire family’s hearts. Sheng wants to deliver the message that: when eating dogs, one could be eating someone’s family members.
The 14 awarded works will be printed out soon for the national tour exhibition starting in September. We are going to display them in schools, or places with dense flow of people such as shopping malls or bookshops. We hope to disseminate the idea that cats and dogs are friends not food to a wider scale, and to a further degree.
- Contact Name: Ivory
- Contact Email: ivoryke@animalsasia.org
- Organised by: Ivory Ke