Press Release
Yic Barbecue Market Visual Identity by Youjia Gu Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Youjia Gu acknowledged for graphics, illustration and visual communication design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category for Yic Barbecue Market Visual Identity by Youjia Gu, designed for MET Creative Brand. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Yic Barbecue Market Visual Identity
Yic Barbecue Market is a visual identity created for a barbecue restaurant. The identity is built around the sound of grilling, expressed as Zila, which shapes the brand slogan and the wider copywriting system. A small carnivorous character named Zila beast serves as the brand mascot, with a cute face and an open mouth. Circular forms such as stars and yarn balls suggest planets and space, supporting a barbecue planet theme. Light orange and blue-green tones give the identity a playful and fashionable style. The identity is applied across a 280 square meter interior.
About Youjia Gu
Youjia Gu, born in 1993, is the master designer of MET Creative Brand. She is committed to creating a beautiful restaurant design. As a new generation of young designers, she pursues fashion design. She has her own unique design style, providing VI design for more than 100 domestic catering brands. She hopes that through her own design, every restaurant brand can have its own recognition. Although she has been engaged in the design industry for about 5 years, she has led her team to complete the VI design of many famous restaurants in China, winning the trust of customers. At the same time, she has made great achievements in many domestic and foreign design competitions.
Award Record
With this recognition, Youjia Gu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Award
The A' Graphic Design Award is an international graphic design competition recognizing good graphic designs by best creative agencies and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to graphic designers, communication designers, graphic artists and illustrators from all countries. Typical entries include logos, posters, infographics, brochures, packaging designs and business cards. The awarded graphic designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/graphics
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/100459
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/100459
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!100459
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/272661
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://c7.gg/fUU2x
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Yic Barbecue Market Visual Identity
- Function
- Visual Identity
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Light Slate Gray, Dim Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- MET Creative Brand
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Youjia Gu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #100459
Credits
- Team
- Yun Liu, Siyu Xu, Lei Chen, Yuting Wang and Xin Wei
- Image Credits
- Photographer MET Creative Brand, Yic, 2018.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In order to distinguish itself from the traditional barbecue shop, designers carried out strategy output and IP creation for the whole brand of Yic BBQ Market. At the same time, they have also carried out brand differentiation positioning, through the cross-border integration of IP and space, to create a unique brand image. Therefore, this case is not only a barbecue shop, but also an alien small dinosaur IP trend shop.
- Inspiration
- Yic BBQ Market focuses on the female groups who love to eat, play and have a passion for life, it strives to satisfy new and interesting user experiences and enjoy high cost-effective enjoyment, creating a lovely and fashionable "barbecue planet" theme interactive IP restaurant.
- Research
- When hearing the sound like "Zila" everyone can think of Yic Barbecue Market. This is not only the sound of grilled meat, but also the sound of heartbeats. Therefore, the brand's slogan "love is Zila Zila" describes the common points of love and barbecue. In this direction, through a series of copywriting system to create close to the emotional needs and psychology of female consumers.
- Challenge
- If the brand wants to reach the consumers' heart accurately, it needs a spokesperson who takes IP as the carrier and speaks out. Barbecue is about the pleasure of eating meat, so the designers have designed Zila beast, a small monster image of eating meat. Its appearance is cute, with an opening mouth indicates its identity is a carnivore.
- Realization and Technology
- The design of Yic BBQ Market starts from the auditory part of the five senses experience, and extracts the sound of barbecue as the main line throughout the brand and the basis of the construction of copywriting system. Designers hope to use the voice heard in the process of "Zila" consumer experience as the starting point of their design to build the auditory experience of the whole scene.
- Operation and Interaction
- On the touch line of in store consumption, designers have also created an eye-catching space sense IP punch point, as well as an open file area, implanting interesting copywriting, such as "the beauty of under the moon is unparalleled, eating meat tonight is not fat" and other emotional interactions with consumers.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2018 in Suqian and finished in December 2018 in Suqian.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 280 square meters. The concept of "barbecue planet" is created through planet, space, aerospace and other elements in space to give consumers immersive real sensory experience.
- Keywords
- Visual Identity, Commercial, Restaurant, Modern, Fashion, IP, Barbecue, Planet Space Station
