The Zodiac Bogmærke by Wenxian Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award i Jern in Kunst- og Kontorartikler Design Competition Category.

JernKunstartikler· 2023

The Zodiac Bogmærke

by Wenxian Liu

A' Design Award i Jern Winner in Kunstartikler Category

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The Design

About The Zodiac Bogmærke

Zodiac er et sæt bogmærker baseret på de tolv dyr i det kinesiske stjernetegn. Hvert bogmærke er formet, så dyret ser ud til at gå inde i bogen. Bogmærkerne er fremstillet af sejt rustfrit stål, galvaniseret med 18 karat guld og efterbehandlet med CNC-gravering med en præcision på 0,3 mm. Forenklede linjer forener de tolv dyr, samtidig med at hvert dyrs karakter bevares. Emballagen arrangerer stjernetegnsillustrationerne i et cirkulært mønster som symbol på fuldkommenhed. Guld og rødt anvendes for at fremkalde glæde og velsignelse.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Jern

The Zodiac Bogmærke er vinder af A' Design Award i Jern, en prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles gode designs, som opfylder de professionelle og industrielle krav, man forventer af veldesignede skabelser. Jernvinderne viser stor dygtighed, høj specialisering, ekspertforståelse og kreativ kapacitet hos deres skabere. The Zodiac Bogmærke forventes at være en højt estimeret, beundret og kær skabelse, der er praktisk og innovativ. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Jern, integrerer branchens bedste praksis og har kompetente tekniske egenskaber knyttet til knowhow og talent. The Zodiac Bogmærke respekteres for sin grundighed og er designet til at levere forbedringer af livskvaliteten, der er med til at gøre verden til et bedre sted.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: We redesigned the zodiac illustrations and made them into bookmarks, as if animals were walking inside the book. On the packaging, we use zodiac illustrations to form a circular pattern, which embodies the ecological of Chinese zodiac culture and symbolizes completeness. We also use the Chinese favorite colors: gold and red, symbolize joy and blessing.
Dimensions & Packaging: 303mm*155mm*35mm
Production Technology: The zodiac Bookmark is made of high-toughness stainless steel, electroplated with 18k gold in CNC engraving process.The finest precision can reach 0.3mm.
Design Challenge: The twelve animals are quiet different, like small mice , large cattle,horses and even fictional dragons. To design these animals with different morphological characteristics into a series and make the twelve be unified while keeping their characteristic is the biggest challenge . It has overcome with simplified lines and modern design techniques .
Inspiration: The zodiac, which comes from an ancient Chinese folk philosophy and has been used to this day, is made up of 12 different animals, each year represented by one animal in a 12-year cycle. The zodiac is also a simplified ecology of Chinese, twelve animals have very different personalities and live in harmony with each other.
Book, is the carrier of human knowledge, bookmark, is a small tool for reading, but also the embodiment of the reader's taste.
The illustration is full of Oriental style, let the Oriental wisdom accompany our reading time, but also let the zodiac culture more widely inherited, this is our original design intention.
Project Duration: It took about one year in Shenzhen China

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