History Flows As One Gwerslyfr by Kiwook Kim

History Flows As One Gwerslyfr by Kiwook Kim is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Gwobr Arian A' Design Award in Addysg Competition Category.

ArianAddysg· 2025

History Flows As One Gwerslyfr

by Kiwook Kim

Client: MiraeN

Gwobr Arian A' Design Award Winner in Addysg Category

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The Design

About History Flows As One Gwerslyfr

Mae History Flows As One yn werslyfr hanes Corea ar gyfer ysgolion uwchradd. Rhennir y dyluniad yn ddau lyfr, gyda'r cyntaf yn dangos bywyd bob dydd yn y gorffennol a'r ail yn dangos y presennol. Mae pob clawr yn cyflwyno ffigur o gyfnod gwahanol yn cerdded tuag at y llall, tra bo ci yn cysylltu'r ddwy olygfa. O'u gosod ochr yn ochr, mae'r ddau glawr yn ffurfio un darlun cyflawn. Mae rhannau o'r gwaith celf wedi'u gorffen ag euro. Mae pob llyfr yn mesur 220 wrth 280 wrth 6 milimetr. Y bwriad yw cyflwyno hanes fel un stori barhaus.

The Recognition

About the Gwobr Arian A' Design Award

Mae History Flows As One Gwerslyfr yn enillydd Gwobr Arian A' Design Award, cydnabyddiaeth hynod fawreddog a roddir i ddyluniadau o'r radd uchaf, hardd a thrawiadol. Mae enillwyr Arian yn weithiau tra disglair a hynod greadigol sydd yn darlunio arbenigedd, dawn a chraffter rhagorol eu dylunwyr. Disgwylir i History Flows As One Gwerslyfr fod yn waith gwych ac esiampl, yn nodedig o broffesiynol ac yn ddwfn arloesol. Mae'r dyluniad buddugol hwn o Wobr Arian A' Design Award yn ddyfais hynod nodedig a edmygir sydd yn elwa ac yn symud ymlaen ffiniau celf, gwyddoniaeth, dylunio a thechnoleg. Mae History Flows As One Gwerslyfr yn greadigaeth y cenfigennir wrthi yn eang, sydd yn deffro dyheadau, yn cyflwyno teimladau cadarnhaol ac yn cynnau rhyfeddod a syndod.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This book is the cover of a newly designed high school Korean history textbook in 2024. The familiar and emotional design, like a novel book, allows textbooks to become more interested and naturally immerse themselves in the subject of history beyond the role of simple information delivery. In particular, approaches such as novel books are designed to change the perception of textbooks, ease the academic burden on students, and make them want to read leisurely like books.
Dimensions & Packaging: The size of the book is 220mm x 280mm x 6mm and is divided into two books.
Production Technology: Divided into two books to show the connection between the past and the present, the first book deals with daily life in the past and the second book deals with the present. Each book features a man and a woman who time- slip at different times walking toward each other. The dog on the cover acts as a medium to connect the past and the present, and shows the effect of each book becoming one when they meet each other. In addition, the gilded treatment of a part of the painting emphasizes the core luxuriousness and speciality of the design
Design Challenge: Korean history textbooks approached like novel books can make students feel Korean history as a living story and provide a moving and direct learning experience beyond the existing hard and boring academic approach. An emotional and immersive approach will help students learn important lessons in life and play an important role in making history a lesson for the future not just an event of the past.
Research: The connection between the past and the present through the emotional approach of storytelling, visual design like a novel book, and time-slip motif will revolutionize the nature of the textbook. It provides students with in- depth learning experiences, improves the quality of history education, and develops the ability to apply historical events to life based on better understanding. In this process, history will not be a simple memorization subject, but will be able to feel as part of one’s identity and life.
Inspiration: With the theme of You in the Past, Me in the Present as a motif of time slip, it was unraveled as an emotional and immersive illustration that naturally connects the past and the present. Through design that expresses the scenes in which characters from the two eras communicate and emphasizes the continuity of history and learning, it conveys to students that history is not a disconnected story but a continuous story.
Project Duration: The project was planned and produced from January to August 2024, and will be used as a high school textbook starting in the first semester of 2025.
Operation Flow: Korean history textbooks will serve as a story that allows students to feel how the past and present connect, not just learning materials. Although each book is also valuable independently, the fact that the two books have complete meaning only when they are together can explore how past experiences influence current choices and further raise a deep interest in history.
Team Members: Creative Director: Hyunji Son
Project Manager: Kiwook Kim
Designer: Yoohee Won
Illustrator: Hyunmi Lee
Image Credits: #1: Yoohee Won, #2: Yoohee Won, #3: Yoohee Won, #4: Yoohee Won, #4: Yoohee Won, #5: Yoohee Won