Unicorn Rebrand Visual Identity by Yating Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
IronGraphic· 2024
Unicorn Rebrand Visual Identity
by Yating Liu
Client: Yating Liu
A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
Verified Award Winner
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About Unicorn Rebrand Visual Identity
Designer Yating Liu has refreshed a New York Mexican food truck's brand in an experimental project. The design uses vibrant colors and badges to appeal to young students. In the logo, "Uni" represents university, while "Corn" stands for Tacos. The unicorn theme, popular among youth, fits with the brand's weekly introduction of new flavors. The logo creatively combines elements following Spanish grammar. Menu items also include college-related terms, ensuring a unified visual system tied to the brand's essence.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Unicorn Rebrand 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. Unicorn Rebrand 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. Unicorn Rebrand 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 has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
This is a rebranding project for Unicorn Taco, a New York-based taco brand specializing in Mexican food. The design features a lively and bold color palette, complemented by badge graphics that resonate with the college student identity. These elements work together to create a more enticing brand image, appealing to a youthful audience.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
After winning the award, I will reach out to various media outlets to publicize my achievement and share my creative philosophy with a wider audience. I also hope to connect with like-minded designers through this exposure. Additionally, I plan to participate in several exhibitions, which is an excellent way to promote my work and meet designers from around the world.
How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
I spent approximately six months completing this work. Of course, I didn't work on it every day; the process included brainstorming the name, designing the logo, and making numerous adjustments and revisions along the way.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- "Unicorn" has a dual meaning: it signifies the mythical animal "Unicorn", aligning with the brand's weekly flavor launches, and it can be dissected into "Uni" and "CORN," representing "university" (as the food truck targets college students near universities) and "the taco". The exclamation mark at the end of the logo mirrors the third letter "i," a distinctive punctuation mark in Spanish.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Loyalty card 90mm x 54mm
- Tags
- Logo, visual identity, branding, corporate identity, graphic design, food identity, New York
- Production Technology
- The logo is easily applied to stationery, packaging and menu designs, and other various applications including loyalty card, balloon, badges, taco truck graphic, apron and tape designs.
- Design Challenge
- This brand design challenge is how to make every element in the design closely connected to the brand's core, ultimately forming a cohesive and unified visual system. Like the logo design which skillfully incorporates various pieces of information, such as the brand's origin, product characteristics, and target audience, into a simple graphic without losing uniqueness and detail.
- Research
- The overall logo takes a semi-circular shape, cleverly mirroring the appearance of Taco corn tortillas. The letters "i" in "UNi" in the name, along with the exclamation mark at the end, form a mirrored pattern, adhering to the rules of Spanish grammar.
- Inspiration
- This is a rebranding project for Unicorn Taco, a New York-based taco brand specializing in Mexican food. The design features a lively and bold color palette, complemented by badge graphics that resonate with the college student identity. These elements work together to create a more enticing brand image, appealing to a youthful audience.
- Project Duration
- The project started in July 2021 and finished in September 2021 in Beijing, China.
- Operation Flow
- The design features a lively and bold color palette, complemented by badge graphics that resonate with the college student identity. These elements work together to create a more enticing brand image, appealing to a youthful audience. Additionally, each product name in the menu design cleverly incorporates words closely related to college life, such as "all-nighter," "group project," "brainstorm," and more, ensuring that every element in the design is closely connected to the brand's core, ultimately forming a cohesive and unified visual system.
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