Guanshan Brandidentitet by Hong Jia Min is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award i Jern in Grafik, Illustration og Visuel Kommunikationsdesign Competition Category.

JernGrafik· 2025

Guanshan Brandidentitet

by Hong Jia Min

Client: Jijia Brand Creative Studio

A' Design Award i Jern Winner in Grafik Category

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The Design

About Guanshan Brandidentitet

Book Text: Guanshan er en brandidentitet skabt til en mælketebutik. Designet bruger kinesiske tegn som sit fundament og moderniserer strukturen i traditionel embedsmandsskrift, samtidig med at dens klassiske ånd bevares. Med rødder i østlig objektæstetik kombinerer identiteten billedsprog fra tuschviftefans og teredskaber. Det centrale motiv viser en vifte og en tekop i en overlappende komposition, hvilket skaber en dobbelt symbolik. Tuschpenselstrøgene antyder bambusrammen på en traditionel rund vifte, mens koppens silhuet er inspireret af Jianzhan-teskåle.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Jern

Guanshan Brandidentitet 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. Guanshan Brandidentitet 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. Guanshan Brandidentitet 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: 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