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Northeast Custom Detailed Illustration by Cui Fan

Northeast Custom Detailed Illustration by Cui Fan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.


IronGraphic· 2024

Northeast Custom Detailed Illustration

by Cui Fan

Client: Northeastern University of China

A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category

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Verified Award Winner

Verify Award Status for #158165

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The Design

About Northeast Custom Detailed Illustration

Northeast Custom is a set of illustrations about the culture of Northeast China. The series presents the architecture, folk life and cuisine of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces. Creative cultural elements are combined with layered colors to build the atmosphere of each scene. The illustrations are drawn with vector design software and reproduced with high level printing technology to keep fine detail. Each image measures 3600 by 3600 pixels at 300 dpi. The aim is to present regional culture in a modern visual form and to support cultural tourism.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Northeast Custom Detailed 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. Northeast Custom Detailed 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. Northeast Custom Detailed Illustration is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
It is a set of illustrations about the culture of Northeast China. Through illustrations, the creative elements of the culture of the three provinces in Northeast China are conceived, scene atmosphere is created, color levels are matched, and modern media are used to show the unique architectural culture and cuisine of Northeast China, so as to spread the humanistic and natural culture of Northeast China in a way that fits modern aesthetics, and the story culture of Northeast China is endowed with new connotation of The Times.
Dimensions & Packaging
3600 x 3600 pixels, 300dpi, RGB.
Tags
Northeast Region, Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaoning Province, Folk Culture, Architectural Culture
Production Technology
The series of illustrations and expressions are drawn by the illustrator vector design software. It is produced by high level printing and manufacturing technologies to show the details of beautiful and exquisite illustrations.
Design Challenge
The difficulty lies in the creative graphic expression of culture, the combination of modern aesthetics and traditional culture, the accurate grasp of the characteristics of gorgeous illustrations, and the retention of traditional charm while keeping up with the aesthetic pace of The Times.
Research
The northeast region has witnessed China's history and is known as the "eldest son of the motherland", but today the development of the Northeast region is not as good as before. This design shows the cultural tourism style and the innovation and development of the city in Northeast China from the aspects of architecture and humanity. It is hoped that it can promote cultural inheritance and innovation, improve the effect of tourism promotion, and bring new opportunities and possibilities for the development of cultural tourism in the three Eastern provinces.
Inspiration
Through illustration design and cultural derivative design on the theme of the three provinces in Northeast China, the visual presentation mode of regional culture with localized illustration characteristics is explored, the outstanding people in Northeast China are expressed through illustration language and media, the regional culture is endowed with new era connotation and modern expression form, and people's love and protection awareness of regional culture is aroused.
Project Duration
This is a set of illustrations about the culture of Northeast China. Through illustrations, the creative elements of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces are conceived, scene atmosphere is created, color levels are matched, and modern media are used to show the unique natural relics and cultural cuisine of Northeast China, so as to spread the culture and natural culture of Northeast China in a way that fits modern aesthetics. It endows Northeast story culture with new era connotation.
Operation Flow
It can spread the characteristic culture of Northeast region in a way that conforms to modern people's aesthetic, and cause people to think deeply.
Image Credits
Image #1 : Illustration Cui Fan 2024.
Image #2 : Illustration Cui Fan 2024.
Image #3 : Illustration Cui Fan 2024.
Image #4 : Illustration Cui Fan 2024.
Image #5 : Illustration Cui Fan 2024.

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