Iron Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design · 2020
The Wild Corporate Identity
by Chao Xu
- A' Design Award 2020 Iron Winner in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: AhnLuh Luxury Resorts and Residences
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 8,823
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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.
Press Kit
- 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.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Jan 2019 in Hangzhou and finished in April 2019 in Hangzhou.
- 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.