Travel and Happy Things Illustration by Wen Lung Cho is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
IronGraphic· 2022
Travel and Happy Things Illustration
by Wen Lung Cho
Client: lyon cho Illustration
A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
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About Travel and Happy Things Illustration
Travel and Happy Things is a series of illustrations about travel and joy. The series is painted by hand with acrylic paint, which is bright and waterproof. Each work measures 145 millimeters in height and 100 millimeters in width. One scene shows the harvest festival of the indigenous people of Taiwan, where people hold hands and dance around a bonfire. Another scene shows a single traveler walking at a calm pace in a foreign street. The colorful images recall the freedom of travel and social life that was limited during the pandemic.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Travel and Happy Things 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. Travel and Happy Things 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. Travel and Happy Things 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?
Travel and joy are conveyed through illustrations, such as the reunion of friends, the travel of one person, etc. And the colorful colors also make people feel happy. In this series of illustrations, the use of bright colors to highlight the joyful illustration atmosphere, in the details of the arrangement of the characters, such as the joy of friends party or the joy of meeting a jazz singer on Bourbon Street, are all clever arrangements, so that readers can feel a variety of good times.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The current Covid-19 pandemic prevents friends from gathering and traveling abroad. Everyone has lost the freedom of social life and travel they once had. The beautiful life experience in the memory is depicted in colorful colors. Hope to breathe freely as soon as possible and return to normal life.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Continue to work on designing/creating illustrations
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The aborigines of Taiwan have a unique traditional harvest festival culture. During the harvest festival, they held hands and sang and danced around the bonfire. Everyone sang and drank joyfully. This is the joy of the group. Traveling alone in the streets of a foreign country, walking at your own pace, enjoying your own joy. Whether it is the joy of a group or a person, the colorful illustrations are unique to make people feel relaxed, happy, and beautiful.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Height 145mm x Width 100mm
- Tags
- cho lyon, lyon cho Illustration, cho,Mr lyon, cho Illustration
- Production Technology
- Acrylic Paint Handmade Painting
- Design Challenge
- The way you like is balanced with the customer's requirements
- Research
- Research type: Illustrations about travel, happiness and things
Research purpose: His own illustrations interpret travel and happiness
Methods, data collection and research tools used: Life and music, exhibition experiences and use the Internet to collect
Participants or experiments: myself
The effect of research on real-life phenomena such as business: Remind yourself and your friends of the importance of joy and culture - Inspiration
- The current Covid-19 pandemic prevents friends from gathering and traveling abroad. Everyone has lost the freedom of social life and travel they once had. The beautiful life experience in the memory is depicted in colorful colors. Hope to breathe freely as soon as possible and return to normal life.
- Project Duration
- The project started in February 2020 in Taipei and finished in May 2020
- Operation Flow
- Use acrylic paint to paint. The bright color of acrylic paint is waterproof. When painting, be careful that the paint dries very quickly.
- Team Members
- Cho Wen Lung
- Image Credits
- Image #No1-5 : Illustrator / Cho Wen Lung (Illustrator)
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