Symphony Of Janan Expressive Illustration by Najeeb Barbour is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
IronGraphic· 2021
Symphony Of Janan Expressive Illustration
Client: Leopard Arts
A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
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About Symphony Of Janan Expressive Illustration
Through analyzing the design, it is apparent to notice the designer’s focus on the essential attributes of both the horse and the seahorse, giving the design the strength and gracefulness that they represent. In the classical Arabic language Janan signifies the deepest chamber of the heart, where the purest form of emotion is expressed. With the designer’s geometric shapes and symbols connected, the design conveys flow and portrays depth. He included the heart in the character and the key, creating a bond and unity between them.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Symphony Of Janan Expressive Illustration 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. Symphony Of Janan Expressive Illustration 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. Symphony Of Janan Expressive Illustration 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?
Each heart has its own key, only those who truly love can find it.
It is a relationship based on honesty and sacrifice.
Based on this fact, i created this character that represents a woman’s tenderness, femininity and strong personality,
who does not accept to open her heart except to the one who deserve it.
Thats why she made a special key and hid it in the deepest point of the sea,
then surrounded it with difficult tests that only an honest person could pass.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
My main focus was to highlight the pure love relationship between two,
and how simple it seems to others, yet it contains a huge amount of details in its essence that defined all its paths and results.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I have two ideas, one is to engrave it on an ornate wooden and metal box, Its elements are interspersed with glass pieces
in special colors that reflect its fine details, and containing a real lock and key, to put the most valuable possessions in it.
and the second is to have it on the metal gate of a house with its lock and key,
and to include the same design elements in every window and wall.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Fictional design combines two characters, each with special attributes.
Strength of a horse, and delicacy and tenderness of a seahorse.
Linked by ornamented heart that holds a key lock.
The key evolves from a heart shape in its core that holds it and creates a fundamental connection with the character.
The designer used a variety of geometric shapes across the design to give a sense of flow and movement in order to connect with the character and reflect upon its expressions. - Dimensions & Packaging
- W80 cm x H90 cm, 300 dpi, RGB Colors
- Tags
- Heart, Illustration, Geometry, Fiction, Love, Beauty, Horse
- Production Technology
- The initial sketch was done free hand aimed to create a homogenous flow of all the thoughts gathered pertaining the subject of my piece.
Revisiting the visual concept was essential in order to create a high degree of consistency to establishing perfection within every corner of the drawing, considering the density of Janan’s structure.
I have also adopted traditional methods of depicting shapes and carefully applied it within the relevant scope of my drawing.
Following the sketch development stage, came the digital aspects of applying the technical skills utilized through illustrator and Photoshop. - Design Challenge
- The characters varied greatly in their physical form, and finding a way to merge them
into one without compromising their significant attributes was a challenge.
Another minor obstacle was adding the components that support and complement the design in a compatible and consistent way while making sure they anchored the message and purpose of the design. - Research
- I went through multiple methods for my research, such as art books, internet, documentaries, and searching deeply within the Ethology of animals and their behaviors.
I got valuable support from people that shared the love of animals.
I also had enough information in my arsenal to dive deep into developing the idea in an original style. - Inspiration
- Inspired mostly by the characteristics of the seahorse, a little creature living in the vast harsh ocean.
A delicate creature yet showing a powerful sense of love through an unbreakable bond with its eternal dance partner.
I had the urge to mix this with the untamed nature of a wild horse waiting for its companion.
The research varied between finding the characters with the desired emotions and the right elements to bond with the characters and develop the purpose behind the design. - Project Duration
- The project started in Feb 2017 and finished in Sep 2020 in Dubai
- Operation Flow
- This design could be a standalone printed as an artwork, Or it could be transformed into a 3d form and used as a still or animated character.
It can be physically sculptured and used as an art-decor element using metallic materials, hand made or factory production.
The objects are very flexible to use, it's been created using adobe illustrator and Photoshop, and can be operated in many ways.
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