Huade City Visual Identity by Fu Yong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
IronGraphic· 2020
Huade City Visual Identity
by Fu Yong
Client: Huade
A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
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About Huade City Visual Identity
Huade was once an important military base for defending China's northern frontiers. Abandoned military facilities can develop military experience and tourism, and drive urban economic development. The design is inspired by a button, the pause and start symbols in button mean that suspend busy work, and start the journey of Huade. The combination of the pause and start symbol and the pentagram is the English Abb. HD of Huade. The five pointed star is part of the army flag and epaulet. Huade will always remember and pay tribute to the heroes who defended the country during the war.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Huade City Visual 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. Huade City Visual 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. Huade City Visual Identity is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The city of Huade was once an important military base for defending China's northern frontiers. Abandoned military facilities can develop military experience and tourism industries, promote urban economic development, and increase the popularity of city. The design is inspired by a button.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Button is closely related to the military. The pause and start symbol means that people suspend their busy work, give themselves a vacation, and start the journey of the Huade military experience. The combination of the pause and start symbol and the pentagram is the English abbreviation HD of Huade. The five-pointed star is part of the banner of the Chinese army and part of the military epaulets. Huade will always remember and pay tribute to the heroes who defended the country during the war.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I want to make some more new works.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Button is closely related to the military. The pause and start symbol means that people suspend their busy work, give themselves a vacation, and start the journey of the Huade military experience. The combination of the pause and start symbol and the pentagram is the English abbreviation HD of Huade. The five-pointed star is part of the banner of the Chinese army and part of the military epaulets. Huade will always remember and pay tribute to the heroes who defended the country during the war.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The material of the sign should be selected according to the use environment. For smaller applications, the recognition of the pentagram is the limit.
- Tags
- City, Brand, Logo, Military experience, Travel, North, Patriotic, Forward, Red, Fu yong
- Production Technology
- The city has their own features, city logo is to convey one of the most important characteristics to the public, becoming a unique label for the city. Graphics must have both cultural and historical precipitation, as well as modernity.
- Design Challenge
- The difficulty is how to express the history of military bases in modern visual language. Starting with the military flag and clothing, found a common symbol that is the pentagram. The pause and start symbols in the Internet era combine the five pointed star to perfectly combine the two.
- Research
- After receiving the design invitation, I went to Huade for a survey and research to understand the history and current situation of this city. Through interviews with citizens, professionals, and government officials, everyone agreed that the previous military base is the most representative city symbol.
- Inspiration
- The city of Huade was once an important military base for defending China's northern frontiers. Abandoned military facilities can develop military experience and tourism industries, promote urban economic development, and increase the popularity of city. The design is inspired by a button.
- Project Duration
- The project started in July 2019 in Beijing and finished in February 2020 in Beijing
- Operation Flow
- The logo can be presented on a white background or can be used against a red background to form a unified visual style.
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