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Silver A' Design Award in Print and Published Media Design Goes to Seven Days and Nights Love is Daylight Book by Zhiyou Tian
Zhiyou Tian recognized for print and published media design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Seven Days and Nights Love is Daylight Book by Zhiyou Tian, designed for Artron Design Center, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Print and Published Media Design category. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Seven Days and Nights Love is Daylight Book
Seven Days and Nights Love is Daylight is an illustrated novel about international business and romance. The book uses seven kinds of paper, one for each of the seven days described in the story, so touch, light and shade change as the pages turn. The pages are cut with a 360 degree gradation, and quick forward turning shows daylight rising while turning back shows moonlight falling. The cover is washed kraft paper with orange and silver printing, gold and silver stamping and pressed relief. A fluorescent acrylic box with laser engraved text matches the fluorescent colors inside.
About Zhiyou Tian
Guided by the concept of “serving the people's art”, Artron Design Center is committed to integrating resources and providing art creators with comprehensive solutions for the entire industry chain. Focusing on art data, it is oriented to two major scenes of ‘art communication’ and ‘art trade’. Products and services cover art creation, art communication, art trading and collection, and art popularization, the whole industry chain. Artron’s integrated service is to escort the artists all the way to communicate and trade the words to mass art market.
Award Record
This recognition makes Zhiyou Tian a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Print and Published Media Design Award
The A' Print Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good printed and published media by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to print designers, published media designers, graphic designers and typography experts from all countries. Typical entries include brochures, posters, magazines, catalogs, flyers and business cards. The awarded print designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/print
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/138110
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/138110
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!138110
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/328691
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Seven Days and Nights Love is Daylight Book
- Function
- Book
- Category
- Print and Published Media Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Entertainment
- Colors
- Firebrick, Red, Black, Dark Red and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Artron Design Center
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zhiyou Tian
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #138110
Credits
- Team
- Wan Jie
- Image Credits
- Image No. 1~5: Zhiyou Tian Video Credits: Zhiyou Tian
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A graphic novel of international business and romance, a new art classic with a gorgeous style and dense philosophical thoughts. The whole work of vivid vitality and design of the aesthetic interlocking, the plot tumbles story into the picture, gorgeous color relaxation, light and shadow light delicate and dynamic, reading more visual impact and sensory temperature. The designer carefully refines the core characters, scenes, dramatic conflicts, images, etc. Each illustration is designed with rhythm from still frame to microscopic color.
- Inspiration
- This Oriental Pride and Prejudice, the initial inspiration for the design comes from the artistic tone of Mucha’s work about young girls and candy. The lead designer, Zhiyou Tian, through the layers of analysis of the content philosophy, the mystery and sacredness of love that contains time and time, through the series of numbers, the rainbow of the sun, moon and stars, light to form a unique design logic and rhinoceros style.
- Research
- Seven groups of punctuation and fine line digital code, as well as light and shade changes within the text of the single and double column mixed way, with a single line tracing treatment to the key text and dialogue of the passage. Seven kinds of paper are used in the book, corresponding to the scene of the seven days. Tactile distinctive light and shadow light and dark rhythm subtle, making the book a rich and varied reading perception. At the end of the book, with strict text labeling and graphic index information, with extremely meticulous notes and minimalist design.
- Challenge
- Different thickness of the set of post to ensure a high degree of unity of the book margins, taking into account the different characteristics of the paper double-sided subtle changes. Each detail leading to the whole book, interlocking hand-binding details, is the book manual obstacles and challenges.
- Realization and Technology
- The fluorescent acrylic book box echoes matches well with the fluorescent colors inside the book. Seven kinds of paper are used in the book, corresponding to the scene of the seven days, echoing the title of the book. The change of paper brings the subtle difference of touch and light and shade, making the reading rhythm well-arranged. The pages of 360 - degree graduation design, the circumference of the once, let the book form page and on the right side and up and down, left a beautiful arc book traces.
- Operation and Interaction
- Special design of 360 degree book pages, when the pages quickly turned forward scene of daylight rising can be seen. By turning back, the fall of moonlight is showed.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was designed and producted from March 2021 to October 2021, Beijing, China.
- Specifications
- Book box: modern fluorescent acrylic book box with text laser engraving technique. Cover: wear-resistant soft feeling washed kraft paper, orange and silver two-color printing, matching gold & silver stamping transparent, pressed concave. Specifications: 185*260*26mm international format
- Keywords
- Novel, Philosophic, Modern, Eastern, Layouts, Book
