Hello dear readers! My name is Alexandru Ghitescu, I am a Romanian Motion Graphic Designer and I came in China 2 years ago to teach Visual Communications and Graphic Design at Raffles Design Institute in Changchun. In this moment, I feel a tremendous joy and honor, but also a great responsibility in being selected in this admirable and great collection. I must confess that even from my childhood I admired Chinese culture and customs, and being here in China, living, feeling and discovering Chinese people’s qualities every day, make me appreciate even more this wonderful country.

As a teacher, I strive to show to my Chinese students’ different techniques, issues, trends and influences in graphic design, but at the same time, I learned from them a lot about Chinese culture. I wish to express a special thanks for the time and knowledge of my special Chinese colleague and friend, Gavin Sun 孙明阳, who helped me to understand many interesting details about Chinese painting, calligraphy, myths, poetry, songs, design, customs and language. Thank you Gavin! 谢谢非常感谢 孙明阳!

Also I wish to say thanks to my beautiful wife Andreea Pasca, who inspire me every day and I consider is my celestial muse. Thank you Andreea! 　

In my experience, I have often wanted to combine different techniques and ways of visual expression, believing that the imagination cannot be stopped because of the technique. So, I followed a continuous circuit from the design idea → drawings → photos → computer and back to the main idea, separating, combining, and extracting intersected meaning elements that compose my work. It was not easy! Final idea did not come at once, but little by little: I’ve started, I’ve studied, I’ve compared, I’ve selected, I quit, I returned, I changed, I changed again, until I crystallized in reaching the final variant of the tiger’s face.

I am trying to end here, not before to suggest to all the readers of this book, (and not only) to use their full imagination and what is the most important thing, to not leave their thoughts and projects only in their mind but to put on paper. You must dare, try, experiment, seek, explore new visual techniques, participate in more competitions.

亲爱的读者您好！

我的名字叫Alexandru Ghitescu，是一名来自罗马尼亚的平面设计师，已经在中国生活2年了。现就任于长春大学--莱佛士国际学院，教授视觉传播课程。在作品入选那一刻，我感到了巨大的喜悦和荣誉，同时对我来说也是一个重大的责任。从童年起，我就钦佩中华文化和风俗，现在，生活在中国，让我去感受和发现中国人民的素质，每天都有感动，每天都让我更加欣赏这个美好的国家。

作为一名教师，我努力在平面设计课程中，把不同的技术、问题、趋势和影响呈现给我的中国学生，但同时我也从他们身上获得了很多关于中华文化的知识。

在此，我要特别感谢我的中国朋友孙明阳，是他帮助我了解了许多中国文化。另外，我想说我要感谢我美丽的妻子Andreea Pasca，她每天都激励我。她是我的灵感女神。谢谢Andreea！

结合不同的技术和方法进行可视化表达是我的一贯创作思路，因此，我从设计思路→草稿→图片→计算机再回到主题思路，着重提取相交意义的内容完善我的构思。这并不容易啊！我开始、我研究、我比较、我选择、，我退出、我继续，我改变…….直到我呈现出进入决赛变异老虎的脸。

最后，谢谢组委会对我的认同！