Carbon Research Brand Design by Sxdesign is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
BronzeGraphic· 2022
Carbon Research Brand Design
by Sxdesign
Client: Carbon Research
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
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About Carbon Research Brand Design
Carbon Research is a brand identity created for an academic journal founded in the context of carbon neutrality. The logo combines the image of the earth with the atomic structure of carbon to express environmental protection. Line connections merge the latitudes of the earth with electron tracks, suggesting open thought and wider communication. The symmetrical and surrounding structure reflects a cohesive academic community. The combined logo is printed on journal covers and other physical media, and it remains legible at a minimum size of 20 by 5 millimeters.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Carbon Research Brand Design is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Carbon Research Brand Design is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Carbon Research Brand Design splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Carbon Research's logo uses earth and carbon atomic to convey ideas of carbon neutrality and eco-protection. In detail, we use line connections to merge earth’s latitudes with electronic tracks, which means bounds of thought and symbolizes more communication. The surrounding and symmetrical structure reflects the image of a cohesive academic community. Overall, the design conveys the brand value of an international, top-tier journal and reflects a sense of mission for the time.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The combine logo can be print on the minimal size at 20mm x 5mm.
- Tags
- graphics, illustration and visual communication, logo, academic journal, carbon, earth
- Production Technology
- It can be printed on magazine covers or other products.
- Design Challenge
- In order to express carbon, environmental protection and other elements while making the brand logo convey a deeper significance to help brand positioning, the selection of elements, how to match and combine them, and how to handle the details in the design process are huge challenges that require systematic and unified thinking by the design team.
- Research
- Research has shown that visual symbols with broad consensus can evoke a common memory and establish a unified perception of a certain figure. Earth is one of such symbols. besides expressing the concept of eco-friendly, the use of the earth as the core element of the organization over a long period of time has built a solid consensus in people's minds that they are socially responsible, international and reliable, which is the main reason why we chose this element for carbon research.
- Inspiration
- Carbon Research is an academic journal founded in the context of carbon neutrality. It aims to promote the cause of human eco-protection with an international, top-notch and authoritative figure. Based on this position, designers finally chosen the earth, commonly used by international organizations as the core element of the brand identity with the carbon atomic structure.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2022 in Beijing and finished in February 2022 in Beijing, China.
- Operation Flow
- The combine logo is used primarily as a typographic element on journal covers, as well as printed on journal covers or other physical media.
- Patents
- Sxdesign
- Team Members
- Yingfei Sun
Hao Huang
Qian Hao
Haining Jiang
Xu Chen
Rong Zhang
Wushuang Li
Fengchang Wu - Image Credits
- Sxdesign
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