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Sxdesign Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Restbase Logo And Corporation Identity Design in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Sxdesign acknowledged for graphics, illustration and visual communication design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Restbase Logo And Corporation Identity Design by Sxdesign, designed for RestBase, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 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.
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.
Regarding Restbase Logo And Corporation Identity Design
Restbase is a logo and corporate identity design created for a brand focused on rest and recovery. The wordmark combines serif and sans serif letterforms with an intentional gap, balancing stability and flow. The RB monogram, derived from the wordmark, extends into angular framing patterns. Warm orange tones are paired with monochrome photography to express both energy and calm. Printing is carried out with high-quality methods on recyclable substrates. The identity presents rest as an active and disciplined practice rather than passive downtime.
About Sxdesign
As a design studio in China, “SX” stands for Chinese “ShangXiang” which taken from “Yi Chuan”. The name expounds our core opinion: To build significance of daily life through the observation, extraction, abstraction and reorganization of phenomena. sxdesign creates and values languages and ideas of client and user, such as requirements, knowledge, or the attitude of sxdesign itself.
Award Record
Sxdesign is a winner of 18 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2024 - 2025 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to graphic designers, communication designers, graphic artists and illustrators from all countries. Entries typically include logos, posters, infographics, brochures, packaging designs and business cards. Awarded graphic designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/graphics
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/169962
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/169962
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!169962
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/304255
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Restbase Logo And Corporation Identity Design
- Function
- Logo And Corporation Identity Design
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Coral, Dark Slate Gray, Gainsboro, Linen and Chocolate
- Images
- 5
- Client
- RestBase
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Sxdesign
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #169962
Credits
- Team
- Chen Xu, Huang Hao, Dr. Zhang Rong, Liu Beibei, Hao Qian, Wu Fangbo, Li Shulong, Li Jiaxu, Zhang Mingjie, Gao Jingyan, Dr. Wang Lijing, Tian Jianing
- Image Credits
- sxdesign
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- RestBase's identity system redefines rest through a hybrid visual language. The wordmark logo blends serif/sans-serif hybrid typography with the deliberate gap, balancing stability and fluidity to visualize intentional rest. The RB monogram from Logo emerges as a bold visual hammer, dynamically extending into angular framing patterns, synergizing with energizing comforting orange and monochrome photography to assert the core philosophy: disciplined rest fuels peak energetic performance.
- Inspiration
- The brand philosophy "disciplined rest fuels peak performance" became the creative catalyst. The logo embodies this through structural rigor in letterforms contrasting with fluid negative space. The intentional gap acts as a visual manifesto – rejecting passive downtime in favor of strategic recalibration. Warm orange radiates energized comfort, while monochrome photography conveys meditative stillness. Each element systematically rebrands rest from passive state to strategic investment.
- Research
- Meta-analysis neuroscience studies and consumer surveys with 240 participants revealed strategic rest intervals significantly enhance cognitive performance. Color perception tests identified orange as optimal for balancing energy and comfort. Typography studies led to a hybrid serif-sans wordmark with intentional gaps, visually encoding active recovery principles. These findings informed RestBase's evidence-based design system that repositions rest as measurable productivity accelerator.
- Challenge
- The core challenge was redefining rest as an active strategy – a novel concept requiring visual departure from traditional "tranquility" motifs. Balancing "action" and "rest" demanded avoiding passive aesthetics like muted tones, instead using warm vitality to express intentional recovery. The solution emerged through the logo's hybrid typography (bridging structure/motion) and VI elements like dynamic orange gradients, collectively framing rest as disciplined preparation for excellence.
- Realization and Technology
- Production utilizes sustainable materials, ensuring each physical embodiment of the brand is eco-friendly. The precise execution involves high-quality print technology on recyclable substrates, reflecting the brand’s commitment to environmental responsibility.
- Operation and Interaction
- RestBase operates as a science-driven brand helping individuals achieve peak performance through proactive rest. It delivers rest-related knowledge, methods, and designed products, providing users with scientific recovery solutions. This design helps users intuitively recognize RestBase's expertise, transforming rest from passive downtime into an actively optimized discipline essential for sustained excellence.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2024 in Beijing and finished in November 2024 in Beijing.
- Specifications
- Primary logo: 6mm minimum height for print. Others can be printed or displayed in various size.
- Keywords
- Rest, Brand Identity, Corporation Identity, RestBase, Visual Identity
