Ranger Visual Identity by Zhang Weiwei is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.

IronGraphic· 2023

Ranger Visual Identity

by Zhang Weiwei

Client: Yunnan Tech & Besiness University

A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category

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The Design

About Ranger Visual Identity

Ranger is a visual identity created for a hotel that serves young travellers. The identity compares each guest to a ranger, a character known from fantasy stories. A ranger mask is used as the main creative element, and a series of ranger equipment symbols is derived from it. The symbols are applied to office supplies and hotel supplies in standard sizes, and they are also used for items that invite guests to interact. The logo is printed with laser foil stamping, so the surface shows a changing shine when viewed from different angles.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Ranger 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. Ranger 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. Ranger Visual Identity is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: CoolSymmetry: Both DirectionsBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Different hotels have different positioning groups, Ranger Hotel is mainly aimed at young tourists, through simple design to create a light luxury fashion social hotel.
Dimensions & Packaging: This VI design is mainly used in office supplies and hotel supplies, and is made according to regular sizes.
Tags: Ranger, Hotel, Visual Identity, Young man, Traveller
Production Technology: The product mainly adopts laser hot stamping process.
Design Challenge: The most challenging part of the design was how to use symbols to give visitors from both the East and the West a common understanding of the Ranger.
Research: Ranger Hotel is an international hotel, and the difficulty of the project is that there are many differences between the Chinese "Xia" and the Western "Xia", or even completely different. As a Chinese designer, how to recognize and understand the essence of Western "chivalry" in this project is particularly important. Through reading a large number of literature and books, as well as searching for clues of "Xia" from a large number of movies, and expressing it through symbolic, visual, and intuitive forms, and finally using the method of character equipment deconstruction to achieve this visual system.
Inspiration: The design compares visitors to "rangers." In fantasy stories, practitioners are basically elves. The visual system uses the Ranger Mask as the creative element to extend a series of Ranger equipment symbols, the purpose of which is to create derivatives from these symbols to allow visitors to interact, so that every traveler can experience the Ranger.
Project Duration: The project started in May 2022 in Kunming and finished in July 2022 in Kunming
Operation Flow: The logo of the Ranger Hotel is printed using laser foil stamping technology, and the logo reflects the unpredictable luster from different angles, making it more mysterious.