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Guanshan Brand Identity by Hong Jia Min

Guanshan Brand Identity by Hong Jia Min is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award nga Puthaw in Disenyo sa Grapiks, Ilustrasyon ug Biswal nga Komunikasyon Competition Category.


PuthawGrapiko· 2025

Guanshan Brand Identity

by Hong Jia Min

Client: Jijia Brand Creative Studio

A' Design Award nga Puthaw Winner in Grapiko Category

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The Design

About Guanshan Brand Identity

Ang Guanshan usa ka brand identity nga gimugna alang sa usa ka tindahan sa milk tea. Ang disenyo naggamit sa mga Chinese nga karakter isip iyang sukaranan ug gimoderno ang istruktura sa tradisyonal nga clerical script samtang gitipigan ang klasikal nga espiritu niini. Nakagamot sa Sidlakang estetika sa mga butang, ang identity naghiusa sa mga imahen sa ink wash nga mga pahid ug kagamitan sa tsaa. Ang sentral nga motif nagpakita ug usa ka pahid ug usa ka tasa sa tsaa diha sa nagsapaw nga komposisyon, nga naghimo ug dual nga simbolismo. Ang mga stroke sa ink brush nagsugyot sa bamboo nga kwadro sa tradisyonal nga lingin nga pahid, ug ang hulagway sa tasa nakuha gikan sa Jianzhan nga mga panaksan sa tsaa.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award nga Puthaw

Guanshan Brand Identity usa ka mananaog sa A' Design Award nga Puthaw, usa ka dungganon nga pag-ila nga gihatag sa maayong mga disenyo nga nakatagbo sa propesyonal ug industriyal nga mga gikinahanglan nga gipaabot gikan sa maayo ang pagkadisenyo nga mga paglalang. Ang mga mananaog sa Puthaw nagpakita og dakong kahanas, taas nga espesyalisasyon, eksperto nga pagsabot, ug mamugnaon nga abilidad sa ilang mga tiglalang. Gilauman nga ang Guanshan Brand Identity mahimong gipabilhan, gihangaan, ug gihigugma nga paglalang nga praktikal ug bag-o. Kini nga disenyo nga nakadaog og A' Design Award nga Puthaw naghiusa sa labing maayong mga praktis sa industriya ug adunay hanas nga teknikal nga mga kinaiya nga nalambigit sa kahibalo ug talento. Guanshan Brand Identity gitahod tungod sa pagkamaabtik niini ug gidisenyo aron maghatag og mga pagpaayo sa kalidad sa kinabuhi nga makatabang sa paghimo sa kalibutan nga mas maayong dapit.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Anchored in the philosophy of teahouse as home, we construct a contemporary sanctuary for tea connoisseurs. Our brews extract primal essences from ancient tea groves, harmonized with mountain springs and melted snow to reveal terroir authenticity. Spaces crystallize tea mountains textures and light interplay, crafting immersive nomadic tea sanctuaries that engage all senses.
Dimensions & Packaging
The brand multi series tea collections employ phytographic design extracting each teas botanical essence and marrying it with Chinese aesthetic principles. This methodology crystallizes into Neo Chinese packaging that embodies product specific visual identities.
Tags
Oriental, Creativity, Tea , Ink Painting, Chinese
Production Technology
The creative process prioritizes onomastic morphology deriving visual forms directly from the brands nomenclature while integrating product typology. This methodology undergoes cultural synthesis through strategic collisions between contemporary creativity and Chinese heritage elements, generating innovative semiotic expressions rooted in commercial context.
Design Challenge
The project requires the seamless integration of multiple elements to simultaneously communicate the brand core identity, embody Oriental aesthetics, and ensure versatile application across diverse scenarios.
Research
We reconfigure tea rituals through Ceramic Deconstructionism transposing bamboo brazier fans mechanical logic into ergonomic curves, translating ink bleeds into tactile gradients on vessel surfaces. Packaging evolves into Tactile Typology archives where material stratigraphy chronicles tea history, Neo Chinese design manifests as Parametric Archaeology methodology.
Inspiration
Rooted in Chinese tea ware aesthetics, the concept reimagines Song Dynasty tea house imagery through calligraphic brushwork. Capturing the symbiotic relationship between luzan brazier fans and tea utensils, Ink tonalities outline the fan silhouette, its flowing strokes organically morphing into modern teacups streamlined forms. This visual philosophy of holding a fan while contemplating tea manifests through design.
Project Duration
Located in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, this project was designed in October 2024.
Operation Flow
Carve the eraser into desired shapes, saturate its sculpted surfaces with ink, then employ this unconventional tool as a brush substitute. Through rhythmic imprinting and calculated pressure variations on paper, the rubber matrix undergoes iterative experimentation. Each impression accumulates ink dynamics angular edges deposit geometric patterns while worn facets create mist like gradients.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Hong Jia Min, 2024.
Team Members
Hong Jia Min
Image Credits
Hong Jia Min

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