The Wild Corporate Identity by Chao Xu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.

IronGraphic· 2020

The Wild Corporate Identity

by Chao Xu

Client: AhnLuh Luxury Resorts and Residences

A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category

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The Design

About The Wild Corporate Identity

This is a brand design for a new luxury resort, built on top of Huangbai mountain in Hunan Province. The aim of this project is to combine traditional Chinese aesthetic with Western simplicity into branding design. The design team extracted the rich characteristics of animals and plants in Huangbai mountain and designed a crane shape logo using traditional Chinese painting technique, the feather of cranes had been simplified into a design pattern. This basic pattern can form all kinds of animals and plants（which exist in the mountain), and made all the design elements looks harmonious.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

The Wild Corporate Identity is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. The Wild Corporate Identity is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. The Wild Corporate Identity is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: Slightly CoolSymmetry: PartialBackground: No Clear Backdrop

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This is a brand design for a new luxury resort, which is built on top of Huangbai mountain. We extracted the rich characteristics of animals and plants in that forest and used the feathers of cranes as a pattern. This basic pattern can form all kinds of animals and plants（which exist in the mountain), by applying same pattern through the entire design making this visual identity unified and harmonious.
Dimensions & Packaging: Business card: 90mm x 50mm
Letterhead: 297mm x 210mm
Greeting card: 148mm x 100mm
Tags: branding design, logo, Chinese style, hotel branding, simple
Production Technology: Using traditional Chinese painting:ink painting to create logo, which is a simple but artistic crane. the final products, e.g. business card, greeting card applied gold stamping on special paper, showing a tastefully low key luxury design.
Design Challenge: As the resort building was designed by architects from western country, whereas the site is in china, we need to combine traditional Chinese aesthetic with Western simplicity into branding design.
Research: Team members visited the site Huangbai mountain for three times, during the site visit, took large amount of site photos including unique plants and animals there. those elements finally be used in later stage design. Meanwhile, we did lots of background research on it culture and history aspects, in order to make the design more meaningful and powerful.
Inspiration: Design team applied traditional Chinese aesthetic feeling meanwhile kept its simplicity to the design. The reason to use the crane as a logo, is associated with the dream life that lots of people who choose to live in mountains desired: living idle lives like the cloud and wild crane, there is also a meaning of artistic conception. Designers got inspired by the rich characteristics of wild animals and plants in Huangbai mountain, therefore came up with different icons to represent wild animal and plants by using the same pattern element.
Project Duration: The project started in Jan 2019 in Hangzhou and finished in April 2019 in Hangzhou.
Team Members: Creative director:Chao Xu
Graphic design:Chao Xu