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Xingyue Deng's Easygo Corporate Identity presents a comprehensive brand system rendered across diverse touchpoints, establishing its visual architecture through a harmonious convergence of warm kraft…

Easygo Corporate Identity by Xingyue Deng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.


BronzeGraphic· 2025

Easygo Corporate Identity

by Xingyue Deng

Client: Chengdu Mifang Culture Communication Co.,Ltd

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category

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The Design

About Easygo Corporate Identity

The design integrates the directional meanings of the Chinese characters for up and down into a visual language that transcends linguistic boundaries. By emphasizing intuitive functionality through concise and culturally embedded forms, the design communicates effectively across different user groups. Its clear structure, vibrant tone, and playful interaction reflect thoughtful attention to usability and visual storytelling. Through symbolic representation and minimal aesthetics, the design delivers a distinctive and engaging user experience.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Easygo Corporate Identity 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. Easygo Corporate Identity 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. Easygo Corporate Identity splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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Interviews

Design Interview

What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

The core idea behind this design is to create a visual identity that not only solves a functional problem but also emotionally connects with its audience. The inspiration came from observing everyday interactions and distilling them into a meaningful visual language.

What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

The focus was on clarity and universality. I wanted to design a symbol that transcends language, works instantly, and reduces cognitive effort for all users, including children, elderly people, and visitors in unfamiliar environments.

What are your future plans for this award winning design?

I plan to promote EasyGo as a universal signage solution and explore possible applications in public spaces, transportation hubs, and smart buildings.

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Grand Interview

Your innovative integration of Chinese characters for directional meaning in Easygo Corporate Identity beautifully bridges cultural and linguistic barriers - could you elaborate on how this symbolic approach evolved during your creative process?

The integration of directional Chinese characters within the Easygo Corporate Identity system represents a deliberate semiotic and typographic exploration that bridges cultural narratives with functional design. From the outset, my intention was to deconstruct traditional Chinese logographic elements and reinterpret them as part of a contemporary, modular visual language.In particular, characters like “上” (up) and “下” (down) possess dual-layer meaning — they are not merely directional indicators but also embody philosophical concepts of hierarchy, spatial orientation, and transition within Eastern culture. By abstracting these characters through a systematic graphic reduction process, they were transformed into universal symbols that retain their cultural authenticity while achieving cross-cultural accessibility.This methodology allowed the identity system to operate on multiple levels: visually intuitive for global users, culturally resonant for local audiences, and structurally coherent within the broader visual ecosystem of the brand. Ultimately, this typographic intervention reinforces the brand’s positioning as both rooted in Chinese identity and aligned with international design standards.

The Easygo Corporate Identity design demonstrates remarkable sensitivity to elderly users while appealing to younger purchasers - how did you achieve this delicate balance between accessibility and contemporary aesthetics?

Balancing accessibility with contemporary aesthetics was a central challenge in the development of the Easygo Corporate Identity. The brand operates at the intersection of two distinct user groups: elderly individuals who prioritize clarity and functional usability, and younger purchasers who are driven by emotional resonance and modern design sensibilities.To address this, I adopted a human-centered, inclusive design approach. From a visual standpoint, the system employs simplified geometric forms, high-contrast color schemes, and clear typographic hierarchies to ensure legibility and intuitive recognition for older users. At the same time, the visual language incorporates minimalist aesthetics, modular graphic structures, and subtle cultural references that resonate with younger, design-conscious consumers.Furthermore, the strategic use of culturally symbolic elements — such as the directional Chinese characters — creates a sense of familiarity and trust for senior users, while the abstracted, systematized presentation reflects a progressive, forward-looking identity appealing to the younger demographic. This dual-layer design methodology ensures the brand is both approachable and aspirational, meeting functional accessibility standards without compromising visual sophistication.

Given the critical social mission of Easygo Corporate Identity in addressing mobility challenges for elderly residents in Asian walk-up buildings, how did this purpose influence your visual storytelling decisions?

The core social mission of Easygo—to address mobility barriers for elderly residents in Asia’s walk-up buildings—deeply informed every aspect of the visual storytelling. Recognizing that this project extends beyond product functionality to address social equity, I focused on creating a visual narrative that conveys both accessibility and dignity.The use of upward and downward directional symbols, combined with clean, intuitive iconography, ensures that the design communicates movement and ease. Meanwhile, the visual language emphasizes clarity, stability, and human-centered design principles, reflecting the project's commitment to improving daily life for vulnerable groups.

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Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The idea was inspired by the Chinese characters 'Up' and 'Down', which serve as both characters and arrows representing upward and downward movements. Additionally, the concept of a 'circle' symbolizes vitality. We ingeniously blend the intrinsic meanings of 'up' and 'down' with their visual representations, thereby breaking the boundaries of language. Our goal is to emphasize the product's functionality and convey the brand's concept directly.
Dimensions & Packaging
The product measures 1250mm × 750mm × 2000mm and weighs 50kg. It is separated packaged in several corrugated cardboard boxes.
Tags
Brand, elevator, sustainable development
Production Technology
In terms of product manufacturing, we use highly efficient materials, with the motor having a lifespan of up to 100,000 hours and minimal electricity consumption, reducing energy usage. We prioritize reducing carbon footprint, employing environmentally friendly production processes and adhering to the principles of circular economy to minimize waste generation. As for packaging, we consistently strive to utilize eco-friendly kraft paper materials, reducing environmental pollution from single-use packaging while still conveying the brand's tone.
Design Challenge
Our design approach takes into account that elevator purchasers are often young people, but the ultimate users are elderly individuals. Therefore, we adopt a balanced design philosophy that aligns layout and graphics, satisfying the aesthetic preferences of modern young people while also providing elderly users with a more intuitive understanding of the brand's product functionality, simplicity, and sense of safety.
Research
We direct all our efforts to address the needs of the elder adults who find it difficult to trudge up and down the stairs in older walk-up buildings in Asia where it is not possible to be retrofitted with an external elevator. Our design approach has considered that the elevator buyers tend to be young people, while the ultimate users are the elderly. Therefore, we adopt a balanced design concept to match layout and graphics and break language barriers to convey a sense of simplicity, directness, and authenticity in our visual identity.
Inspiration
Easygo focuses on elevator innovation, striving to meet the needs of elderly individuals who struggle with stairs in older walk-up buildings across Asia, where external elevators cannot be installed. Due to generational issues, some elderly individuals may be non-literate, hence we aim to convey clear and concise messages through our brand's visual identity, eliminating language barriers and benefiting all elderly individuals.
Project Duration
The project commenced its development in Chengdu, China, in January 2020 and was launched in Chengdu and Beijing in April 2023. It was exhibited at the Hong Kong Design Summit in March 2024.
Operation Flow
In the Asian market, we've observed that similar products are typically installed on walls of villas, clinics, and some subway stations. They operate on a single track, allowing only one person to ride at a time, and are priced high with numerous property condition restrictions. As for our product, we've innovatively utilized stainless steel dual tracks on the upper side and cement dual tracks on the lower side within corridors. With a load capacity of 150kg, it accommodates either two passengers simultaneously or one passenger with luggage. Featuring a hook-type design for easy removal, it takes up no space in the corridor.

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