After the natural disaster in Fukushima, Japan in early 2011, words and thoughts of encouragement and prayers flooded through Facebook, Twitter, and email to the survivors. This instant and amazing response from well-wishers to the crisis victims has been immortalized in a 3-dimensional typographic poster called “Words Can Fly a Thousand Miles”. This paper representation of the outpouring of support for those effected by the disaster was designed and created by Kyosuke Nishida, Brian Li Sui Fong, andDominic Liu and photographed by Simon Duhamel. Employing the long-established Japanese custom, Senbazuri (a thousand origami cranes), in their paper sculpture, artists and designers, Nishida, Li Sui Fong, and Liu, used their unique skills to create perfectly formed origami cranes to attach to the words of the poster.Traditionally, a thousand paper origami cranes are given as a special gift for wishes of recovery from illnesses or injury because it is believed that the folding of a 1000 paper cranes makes wishes come true.
Megan Matsuoka made this poster as part of a self-imposed challenge called 100 Posters in 100 Days. “To boost my creativity, practice my design skills, and learn to not over think too much - I’ve set myself a goal to create a 100 Posters in 100 Days,” she says. “I have chosen to use inspirational quotes as my content.”
Her only rule was that she had to create each one within an hour.
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