Xicang Market Libru by Dong Qi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 A' Design Award d'Argentu in Stampa Competition Category.

ArgentuStampa· 2019

Xicang Market Libru

by Dong Qi

Client: Local本地

A' Design Award d'Argentu Winner in Stampa Category

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The Design

About Xicang Market Libru

Xicang Market hè un libru chì ducumenta un mercatu di strada settimanale in Xi'an, Cina. U libru registreghja l'ogetti aduprati cum'è banconi, i modi di mustrà a merca, i cartelli scritti à manu è a relazione trà a ghjente è l'ogetti. U disegnu si mantene minimale in modu chì u materiale sia semplicemente presentatu. U libru hè divisu in ottu capituli: locu, mercatu, cartelli, banconi, cunti orali, merca, prezzu è venditori. Ogni capitulu hè indipendente è ristabilisce una parte di a scena di u mercatu. Per unu di i capituli si hè sceltu una carta simile à i vulantini publicitarii chì si trovanu à u mercatu.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argentu

Xicang Market Libru hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu, una ricunniscenza straordinariamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni di alta gamma, splendidi è impressiunanti. I vincitori d'Argentu sò opere tremendamente brillanti è estremamente creative chì illustranu l'espertisa, u talentu è l'acutezza eccezziunali di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Xicang Market Libru sia una opera maravigliosa di mostra, rimarchevulemente prufessiunale è prufondamente innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu hè una invenzione assai nutevule è ammirata chì benefizia è allarga i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. Xicang Market Libru hè una creazione assai invidiata chì evoca disideri, introduce sentimenti pusitivi è accende stupore è maraviglia.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Observe the Transitional China from the Disappearing Market in Urban Areas.Xi'an, the ancient city in China, is in a great change. A market like Xicang market, held at the same time and same place every week, preserving all the vivid civil life here,,rarely exists now in a city. The design of the book also well conformed to the creator's intention,simply a presentation.
Dimensions & Packaging: 185mm x 55mm x 240mm
Tags: raw,locally,handwriting,Unmodified,portrait
Production Technology: The whole book is divided into eight chapters: location, market, signs, stalls, oral accounts, goods, price and vendors according to the main elements of a local market. Therefore, the idea is to minimize the design and restore the scene of the marketplace (e.g. the supplement part) by every independent chapter. For example, the paper of advertising flyers frequently appeared in Xicang market is the option as the paper of certain chapter of the book to reflect the character of a market by its special texture.
Design Challenge: Xicang market was 100 years old and has certainly changed a lot over the 20 years in China,The design of the book also well conformed to the creator’s intention- simply a presentation. The whole book is divided into eight chapters: location, market, signs, stalls, oral accounts, goods, price and vendors according to the main elements of a local market. Therefore, the idea is to minimize the design and restore the scene of the marketplace (e.g. the supplement part) by every independent chapter.
Research: Observe the Transitional China from the Disappearing Market in Urban Areas ,Xi’an, the ancient city in China, is in a great change. A market like Xicang market, held at the same time and same place every week, preserving all the vivid civil life here, rarely exists now in a city. People here are unusually vivid, typical Xicang and local.We hope to record and present with this book.
Inspiration: The choice of the objects to be used as stalls, the way of displaying, the daily design of the handwritten signs and the relationship between people and objects, are the most prominent features the book want to show. Therefore, the idea is to minimize the design and restore the scene of the marketplace by every independent chapter.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2015 in Xi'an and finished in August 2018 in Xi'an,and was exhibited in Xi'an urban memory museum in October 2018.
Operation Flow: Xicang market has held two exhibitions, with books and image record. The vendors and local residents of Xicang Market and the local government were invited to visit.
Team Members: Song Qun,Geng Nannan,Tian Yuan,Sun Mingjia,Zhao Yanpeng,Sun Quncui,Guo Xin,Cheng Jiayuan,Ding Rui,Chen Gang,Zhao Shuang