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Speech Bubbie Type Design by Xu Hanmin Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Xu Hanmin honored for graphics, illustration and visual communication design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Speech Bubbie Type Design by Xu Hanmin, designed for Yi Xiao Jian Da, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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 Speech Bubbie Type Design
Speech Bubbie is a typeface designed for Latin letters and Chinese characters. The speech bubble is a graphic convention used in comic book dialogue, and letterforms also suggest emotion in writing. The connection between these two graphic elements led to a new structure for letters and characters based on the comic book form. Strokes are simplified into generic speech bubble shapes, while still following the direction of the original strokes, so readability is preserved. The typeface was first drawn by hand and then produced with vector software.
About Xu Hanmin
See the big from the small | Art director Member of Shenzhen Illustrator Association (SIA) Member of Shenzhen Graphic Design Association (SGDA) Former Shenzhen Vocational and Technical College | External teacher of Shenzhen University School of Art and Design | Competition | The judges' works have won many international and domestic awards, including Shenzhen Global Design Award (Bronze Award) / DFA Asia's Most Influential Award (Bronze Award) / Kan Taiqiang Design Award Professional Group (Silver Award and Bronze Award Excellence Award) / gdc Outstanding Mentor Award for Graphic Design in China/The 12th Design Capital (China•Shenzhen) Public Service Advertisement Competition (Gold...
Award Record
With this recognition, Xu Hanmin 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/144901
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/144901
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!144901
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/337581
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Speech Bubbie Type Design
- Function
- Type Design
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Silver, Dark Gray, Gray, Dim Gray and Lavender
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Yi Xiao Jian Da
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xu Hanmin
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #144901
Credits
- Image Credits
- xu hanmin
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Inspiration comes from: the text box on the text message on the mobile phone is a dialog box graphic, at the same time, on our social chat software, dialogue voice or text, there are dialog box graphics, and the dialogue on the comics we see is also composed of dialog box graphics of. In this way, the dialog graphics are combined with the font strokes
- Inspiration
- Speech Bubbie is a graphic convention used most commonly in manga books during dialogues. Similarly,fonts connote emotions in writing.Realising the connection between these two graphic elements,designers borrowed the form from comic books to reformulate the structure of alphabets and Chinese characters. Strokes are simplified into generic forms of speech bubbles while still following the direction of the original strokes,therefore retaining the readability of the character.
- Research
- Speech Bubbie is a graphic convention used most commonly in manga books during dialogues. Similarly,fonts connote emotions in writing.Realising the connection between these two graphic elements,designers borrowed the form from comic books to reformulate the structure of alphabets and Chinese characters. Strokes are simplified into generic forms of speech bubbles while still following the direction of the original strokes,therefore retaining the readability of the character.
- Challenge
- To integrate figurative graphics into font strokes, first of all, we must achieve recognition, and second, we must convey the conceptual graphics to be designed.
- Realization and Technology
- Adobe Illustrator/ hand drawn draft
- Operation and Interaction
- Dialog graphics that appear from mobile phone text messages/social software chats. As well as comic books, people communicate with each other, and dialog graphics also appear.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Shenyang in 2012 and completed in Shenzhen in 2021
- Keywords
- Graphic text, Chinese character font design, dialog font
