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Wu Yao's Wudang Blessing Visual Identity presents a captivating ensemble of collectible figurines arranged in two horizontal registers against a pristine white ground, creating a compositional…

Wudang Blessing Visual Identity by Yao Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Silver A' Design Award in Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design Competition Category.


SilverAdvertising· 2026

Wudang Blessing Visual Identity

by Yao Wu

Client: Wudang Mountain Culture and Tourism Development Group Co., Ltd.

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Advertising Category

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The Design

About Wudang Blessing Visual Identity

Wudang Blessing is a visual identity system created for a cultural tourism brand. The system reinterprets Taoist cultural figures, including Zhenwu Emperor, the Five Gods of Wealth, Fu Lu Shou and the Taizi Slope study blessing, in a contemporary illustrated style. Typography integrates mountain curves into the strokes. Patterns are modular, and vector graphics scale from business cards to billboards. Two color modes are provided, CMYK for print and RGB for screens. The unified system replaces scattered images and supports products, packaging and digital media.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Wudang Blessing Visual Identity is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Wudang Blessing Visual Identity is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Wudang Blessing Visual Identity is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Aiming at outdated vision, scattered IPs and aging communication of Wudang cultural tourism, we deeply explore Taoist culture, remodel core IP visuals, unify visual standards, establish a full-link visual system with communication plans, and adapt traditional culture to contemporary aesthetics and new media scenarios.
Dimensions & Packaging
Vector based system with spot colors Typography integrates Taizipo mountain curves Gourd framed golden toad IP and Q style Taoist deities for product development Graphics in AI EPS SVG with 3D models for figurines Outdoor sculptures use fiberglass with UV coating
Tags
Wudang Blessing, Taoist Culture, IP Visual Design, Traditional Culture Activation, Trendy Design, Cultural Tourism Communication, Brand Visual
Production Technology
Vector graphics scale infinitely from business cards to billboards. Typeface integrates mountain curves into stroke design. Patterns are modular for wrapping paper or silk scarves.
Design Challenge
Deconstruct traditional symbols with modern design while retaining cultural essence; integrate fragmented IPs into a systematic visual solution to solve communication pain points; empower cultural inheritance and Wudang tourism brand upgrading, setting a model for modernization of traditional culture.
Research
Research included literature review, and interviews with 20 youths. Findings show young people prefer styles balancing cuteness with sophistication, with architectural curves resonating more than structures. Strategies use mountain curves as cultural metaphor, anthropomorphized figures, and low-saturation tones. The system enters daily life through products and digital media, proving traditional culture gains commercial vitality through design.
Inspiration
Centering on cultural IPs of Wudang Mountain including Zhenwu Emperor, Five Gods of Wealth, Fu Lu Shou and Taizi Slope Study Blessing, this project reconstructs traditional symbols of blessing, study and wealth in a trendy and contemporary artistic way, builds a complete brand visual system and advertising communication plan to realize the youthful and international spread of Wudang traditional culture.
Project Duration
The project started in Beijing in May 2025 and was completed in Beijing in July 2025.
Operation Flow
Three illustration series have dual color modes CMYK for print and RGB for screen. Flat style maintains sharp lines at any size. System supports applications from stationery to blind boxes to phone wallpapers.
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Team Members
Original designer: Wu Yao
llustration designer: Zhang Yuchen
Illustration designer: Xie Boxing
Illustration designer: Tan Zhen
Graphic designer: Zheng Ziyang
Graphic designer: Tang Wenhu
3D Designer: Liao Hao
Copywriting: Xu Xiaohui
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