Decorative Japanese Cord Icons Celebration Symbols by Mizuho Suzuki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
IronGraphic· 2020
Decorative Japanese Cord Icons Celebration Symbols
Client: Studio Mix
A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
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About Decorative Japanese Cord Icons Celebration Symbols
Continuous Line icons with Japanese style lucky motifs. Inspired by the traditional Japanese Ornament made of Decorative Japanese cord. This icon features a continuous design, like a single stroke. Designed complex shapes into flat and simple shapes. Decorative Japanese cord, Which is a string to decorate gifts and envelopes. Even if there is no real thing, this icon can convey the feeling of celebration.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Decorative Japanese Cord Icons Celebration Symbols 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. Decorative Japanese Cord Icons Celebration Symbols 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. Decorative Japanese Cord Icons Celebration Symbols is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to transforming traditional Japanese cord ornaments into continuous line icons has garnered recognition - could you walk us through the creative journey that led to the development of Decorative Japanese Cord Icons Celebration Symbols?
Traditional Japanese cord ornaments are a common motif for Japanese-style celebrations. The idea for developing the symbol came to me when I was looking at gift envelopes with three-dimensional, ingeniously decorated knots in a store.
The balance between simplicity and cultural richness in Decorative Japanese Cord Icons Celebration Symbols is remarkable - how did you manage to distill complex three-dimensional Japanese cord arrangements into clean, single-stroke designs while preserving their celebratory essence?
Started by stretching, transforming, and arranging the traditional knots that have been passed down since ancient times. I chose motifs from Japanese lucky charms. After that, it was a process of trial and error.
What specific challenges did you encounter when expressing the overlapping elements of Decorative Japanese Cord Icons Celebration Symbols, and how did your solutions enhance the overall visual impact of these celebration symbols?
I had a hard time expressing the tightly packed parts. It may have been difficult to create it using actual cord, but I ignored that and prioritized the "atmosphere" of the appearance.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Continuous and Lucky charm Icons with Decorative Japanese cord. Inspired by the traditional Japanese Ornament. This icon features a continuous design, like a single stroke. Designed complex shapes into flat and simple shapes. Expand the possibilities of simple Japanese culture.
- Tags
- icon, logo, graphic, design, japan
- Design Challenge
- Paid attention to the expression of the overlapping part of the line.
- Research
- Balance of line weights within limited space
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the Japanese Traditional Ornament made of Decorative Japanese cord. It's a three-dimensional modeling that gives a sense of Japanese tradition. By creating a flat and simple, will expand the new possibilities of Japanese style. Decorative Japanese cord Which is a string to decorate gifts and envelopes. There are various designs for tying.
- Project Duration
- Started in 2014 and will continue.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to mizuho suzuki, 2019.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Mizuho Suzuki, 2019
Image #2: Mizuho Suzuki, 2019
Image #3: Mizuho Suzuki, 2019
Image #4: Mizuho Suzuki, 2019
Image #5: Mizuho Suzuki, 2019
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