WHERE THE RESIDENTS OF DARKNESS REST

WHERE THE RESIDENTS
OF DARKNESS REST

Design: Hungjen Wu

Visual Identity, Ticket Design

2021

From March to May 2021, the Department of Design Student Association at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology hosted a film screening series titled Department of Design Workspace Cinema. The program featured a carefully selected lineup of films focused on the theme of dreams, exploring the surreal, the subconscious, and the imagined.

Screenings took place at night in the department’s brick-paved outdoor plaza. The setting naturally created a quiet sense of community, with night cats gathered beneath the eaves, sharing the calm of the evening. This scene inspired the ticket design, which showed two night-dwelling cats beneath a rooftop-shaped cutout. The concept drew from a line in Satoshi Kon’s Paprika about “a place where the people of the night gather,” evoking the feeling of a secret, dreamlike gathering.

A deep navy and gold color palette was chosen to convey mystery and fantasy, reflecting the visual language of dreams and soft nocturnal light. The overall design sought to capture the event’s quiet intimacy through a refined and immersive visual identity.

臺灣科技大學設計系學會於 2021 年 3 至 5 月期間舉辦「灰磚電影院」，選映一系列以「夢境」為核心主題的電影。活動於夜間在系館灰磚廣場放映，場地條件自然引發出「夜貓族於屋簷下並肩觀影」的親密氛圍，形成一種半私密、微社群式的觀影體驗。

票根設計以兩隻夜貓圖像與屋頂結構的輪廓作為主體視覺，呼應「夜之民」棲身之所的意象，靈感擷取自今敏導演《盜夢偵探》中的台詞。整體視覺傳達一種夢境般的神秘集會感，配色以深藍與金色為主，營造出夜晚低調閃爍的質感，並強化活動主題的奇幻性與沈浸感。