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Serious Little Squid الهوية البصرية by Youjia Gu

Serious Little Squid الهوية البصرية by Youjia Gu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 جائزة A' Design Award البرونزية in تصميم الرسوم والتوضيح والاتصال البصري Competition Category.


برونزالرسوم· 2020

Serious Little Squid الهوية البصرية

by Youjia Gu

Client: MET Creative Brand

جائزة A' Design Award البرونزية Winner in الرسوم Category

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The Design

About Serious Little Squid الهوية البصرية

"الحبّار الصغير الجادّ" هي هوية بصرية صُمّمت لعلامة تجارية لأحد المطاعم. تتمحور الهوية حول شخصية "آه جنغ"، وهي شخصية حبّار ترمز إلى موظفي المكاتب في المدن. وتُسهم تفاصيل مثل ربطة العنق وغطاء الرأس في جعل الشخصية سهلة التمييز. ويستلهم الأسلوب الغرافيكي من أفلام الأبيض والأسود الصامتة، معتمداً على الفكاهة الساخرة والمشاهد الكوميدية البسيطة. وتقدّم سلسلة من الرسوم التوضيحية بعنوان "المسرح الداخلي" مشاهد من الحياة اليومية في مدينة كبيرة. ويهدف المشروع إلى بناء نبرة إيجابية للعلامة التجارية وصلة وثيقة مع المستهلكين الشباب.

The Recognition

About the جائزة A' Design Award البرونزية

Serious Little Squid الهوية البصرية هو فائز بجائزة A' Design Award البرونزية، وهي تقدير رفيع المكانة يُمنح للتصاميم المتميزة التي تتسم بالإبداع والبراعة وحدة الذكاء. والفائزون بالبرونزية مصنوعات بارعة بوفرة ومبدعة بصورة لافتة، تؤكد الخبرة الواسعة والخيال وسعة الحيلة لدى مصمميها. ويُتوقع أن يكون Serious Little Squid الهوية البصرية قطعة عالية التقدير ومحل إعجاب وحب، شديدة الاحترافية والابتكار. وهذا التصميم الفائز بجائزة A' Design Award البرونزية يتبنى أفضل الممارسات في الفن والعلم والتصميم والتكنولوجيا، ويتميز بعنايته بالتفاصيل. ويلبّي Serious Little Squid الهوية البصرية الاحتياجات على أفضل وجه، ويلامس الرغبات، ويأسر المشاعر، ويستثير الفضول.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
In this case, the designers create a strong sense of image, pretending to be serious but lively IP image to make consumers have intuitive association, and build a brand tone of "sunshine, positive energy, cheer themselves up". They grasp the popular "mourning" but full of positive energy of the target group in the current society, and try to enlarge the positive and optimistic feeling.
Dimensions & Packaging
The most representative of black-and-white silent film is Chaplin's series of works, which is funny and ironic. In the design of this case, an inverted expression is extracted, that is, cold humor and hypocrisy. This seemingly silent and less positive state actually expresses some very sunny attitudes.
Tags
Visual Identity, Commercial, Restaurant, Modern, Fashion, IP, Small Squid, Sunshine, Positive Energy
Production Technology
Designers take spokesman of urban workers as the prototype, and personify the brand to create "A Zheng", a vivid and lovely squid image. In order to highlight the image of "urban life workers", they added details such as neckties and headscarves to make them look in line with the positioning, and at the same time, they are very personalized, vivid and popular.
Design Challenge
Through simple and interesting comics and copywriting, and in the name of "inner theater", the life scenes and lifestyle of this generation of struggling young people in big cities are presented in the form of theater, one scene at a time, so as to arouse their resonance and awaken the love to life and ideal pursuit of life hidden in their heart.
Research
Party A hopes to become the most popular leading brand of small squid category that really understands what young people know and think. The IP background is set as the spokesman of urban workers, so as to become the communication carrier of the brand's original intention and shorten the distance with consumers.
Inspiration
With the rapid development of society, there are countless young people who choose to work in the first tier cities. They desire to have their own time and pursue freedom. Therefore, designers focus on urban office workers who pursue their dreams in big cities, hoping to cheer them up and create a harbor for their hearts through the healing and strong resonance characteristics conveyed by restaurants. So the serious little squid came into being.
Project Duration
The project started in February 2019 in Xiamen and finished in September 2019 in Xiamen.
Operation Flow
In terms of design techniques, the designers chose the form of black and white silent film as the carrier.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Youjia Gu, 2019.
Team Members
Youjia Gu
Yun Liu
Yuchen Wang
Siyu Xu
Yuting Wang
Xin Wei
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.

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