The Festival has been developing over the last three decades in Macao, as a local citizen at the same time a senior graphic designer of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R., Leong Chi Hang, had been responsible for the visual design of the whole Festival for over years. The concept of this visual design is to imitate the baton’s movement of the conductor while performing on stage, every single move brings in an new tune from various instruments, and finally it comes to the whole picture of the piece of harmonious music. The baton strongly represents the initiation of all, about the rise of melody, the participation of the orchestra, the focus of the audience and all in all, the Music Festival itself. This poster demonstrated those touching melodies during the performance in the Macao International Music Festival via abstract illustrations. This visual image of the baton movement of the conductor was also further developed into various number of posters for the twenty and more different music program of the Festival, each program will have their sub-poster, expressing its music story with the same visual element throughout the Festival, which at the same time centralized into the one main theme of the year.
