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Journey To Lijiang Illustrationsserie by Jijing Ju

Journey To Lijiang Illustrationsserie by Jijing Ju is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award in Eisen in Grafikdesign Competition Category.


EisenGrafik· 2024

Journey To Lijiang Illustrationsserie

by Jijing Ju

Client: Northeastern University of China

A' Design Award in Eisen Winner in Grafik Category

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The Design

About Journey To Lijiang Illustrationsserie

„Journey to Lijiang“ ist eine Illustrationsserie über die chinesische Stadt Lijiang. Als zentrales visuelles Element dient die Figur einer Ziegelkatze, bekannt als Wa Mao. Wa Mao ist ein lokales Kultursymbol und fungiert als Führer durch die Naturlandschaften und die ethnischen Traditionen Lijiangs. Traditionelle kulturelle Symbole werden abstrahiert und in einer modernen visuellen Sprache neu gezeichnet. Die Serie wurde mit Vektorgrafiksoftware gestaltet und mit hochwertiger Drucktechnik produziert. Ziel ist es, das Bewusstsein für die lokale Kultur zu stärken und zu ihrem Schutz beizutragen.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Eisen

Journey To Lijiang Illustrationsserie ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Eisen, einer prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für gute Designs, die die beruflichen und industriellen Anforderungen erfüllen, die an gut gestaltete Schöpfungen gestellt werden. Eisen-Gewinner zeigen großes Können, hohe Spezialisierung, fachkundiges Verständnis und die kreative Kapazität ihrer Schöpfer. Von Journey To Lijiang Illustrationsserie wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgeschätzte, bewunderte und geliebte Schöpfung ist, die praktisch und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Eisen prämierte Design integriert bewährte Branchenverfahren und weist kompetente technische Merkmale in Verbindung mit Know-how und Talent auf. Journey To Lijiang Illustrationsserie wird für seine Gründlichkeit geschätzt und ist darauf ausgelegt, Verbesserungen der Lebensqualität zu liefern, die dazu beitragen, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
This group of illustrations cleverly uses the image of a tile cat as the visual focus, closely connected to multiculturalism, creating a unique and emotional atmosphere, showcasing the magnificent natural relics and profound ethnic charm of Lijiang to the audience. Wa Mao not only serves as an emotional guide, but also carries the essence of Lijiang's traditional culture, and presents it in a modern aesthetic way, injecting new era connotations into Lijiang's humanities and natural culture.
Dimensions & Packaging
3600 x 3600 pixels, 300dpi, RGB.
Tags
Cultural symbol, the Old Town of Lijiang, illustration, IP image, national style illustration
Production Technology
The series of illustrations and expressions are drawn by the illustrator vector design software. It is produced by high level printing and manufacturing technologies to show the details of beautiful and exquisite illustrations.
Design Challenge
The difficulty lies in the abstract extraction and reorganization of Lijiang cultural symbols, combined with modern popular design trends and technological means through emotional interactive experience forms for dissemination, so as to keep up with the trend of the times, make progress in visual aesthetics, cultural inheritance, and form innovation, retain traditional charm, and keep up with the pace of aesthetic appreciation of the times.
Research
Lijiang, as a sacred land with many world cultural heritage sites, records the long history of human civilization development. Its unique geographical location, ancient town and district civilization, and natural scenery have nurtured Lijiang's unique material cultural heritage; The multi-ethnic environment and the skills passed down from generation to generation have also preserved rich intangible cultural characteristics for us, forming its unique cultural genes that should be protected and inherited, so that its culture does not disappear under the wave of commercial development and modern urbanization.
Inspiration
Using the cultural symbol of Lijiang's intangible cultural heritage, Wa Mao, as an index to connect the Lijiang cultural and tourism routes for illustration and image design. As a witness and guardian of the history of the ancient town, connect the diverse cultural landscapes of Lijiang. Using illustration language to express the outstanding talents of Lijiang, endowing traditional culture with new era connotations and modern forms of expression.
Project Duration
Launched in China 2023.
Operation Flow
Abstract extraction and reshaping of cultural symbols, spreading the urban culture of Lijiang in a highly creative and modern aesthetic way. Deeply exploring the unique charm and profound heritage of Lijiang culture, it has aroused people's love and awareness of the protection of Lijiang urban culture.
Image Credits
Image #1 : Illustration Ju Jijing 2023.
Image #2 : Illustration Ju Jijing 2023.
Image #3 : Illustration Ju Jijing 2023.
Image #4 : Illustration Ju Jijing 2023.
Image #5 : Illustration Ju Jijing 2023.

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