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Blend Design Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Children Picture Books from China Exhibition Visuals in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Blend Design for graphics, illustration and visual communication design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category for Children Picture Books from China Exhibition Visuals by Blend Design, designed for Confucius Institute Headquarters. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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.
More About Children Picture Books from China Exhibition Visuals
The Chinese Children's Book Exhibition organized by Confucius Institute headquarters was displayed to the public at children's hall of Frankfurt Book Fair. From different picture books, the experts selected the ink painting of Liang Peilong as the overall visual design style. Then the designers extracted the elements of ink dots from Liang's paintings, strengthened the saturation, and used them together with paintings. The new visual style not only meets the exhibition demand but also has the orientaltaste. Unique Chinese picture beauty appears on the international stage.
About Blend Design
Blend Design is established by the designers educated in Germany, who have international design practice, a more open minded and sensitive artistic sense. We will analyse every project with transboundary and multivariate perspective, and explore discreetly the origin of every cultural activities with new knowledge.
Award Record
With this recognition, Blend Design 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/97864
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/97864
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!97864
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/264572
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://suo.im/6riZFQ
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Children Picture Books from China Exhibition Visuals
- Function
- Exhibition Visuals
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Peach Puff, Orange Red, Sandy Brown, Light Pink and Moccasin
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Confucius Institute Headquarters
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Blend Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #97864
Credits
- Team
- Yonghong Ma, Fang Ge and Peilong Liang
- Image Credits
- Main Image: (Design) Blend Design, 2016; (Design) Blend Design, 2016; (Illustration) Peilong Liang, 2010; (Photography) Confucius Institute Headquarters, 2016
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- October 2016 the Chinese children's book exhibition "children picture books from China" organized by Confucius institute headquarters was made their full debut at children's hall of the Frankfurt book fair. "Children picture books from China" made a selection of the 197 original works from 1000 kinds of picture books of 500 Chinese publishers to display. Through text and paintings by Chinese writers and illustrators, unique Chinese picture beauty appears on the international stage.
- Inspiration
- The activity attribute should be not only international, but also national, and be full of children's interest. The experts selected the ink painting of red & green dragonfly from different style picture books and gave the overall style. The illustrations are elegant in color, beautiful in artistic conception and unique in oriental flavor. The picture with innocence children is full of their longing for good things and future life. The style and the theme are well matched.
- Research
- Before making the vision and exhibition structure plan, it is necessary to analyze the space location, scale, internal and external visiting lines of the booth reasonably, to study people's feeling of exhibition vision from different angles and positions, and to consider the structure and color of adjacent booths.
- Challenge
- Traditional Chinese ink paintings as visual image for the book exhibition are too elegant. Visual design for exhibition should have more strong colors, symbols or graphics to attract attention of the audiences. In order to solve this problem, designers picked up the ink points from paintings of Mr. Liang as the abstract elements, and strengthened the red and yellow saturation, and used with ink painting together.
- Realization and Technology
- This scheme needs to present the details of Chinese ink painting, so in the printing and exhibition of ink-jet painting, there is a high demand for production and paper, and it needs to reflect the level of ink absorption and natural ink-jet. Printing materials, including LCD screen background color, need to show pure ivory white to reflect the gentle oriental charm and detail characteristics of the design. The little Notbook uses the red rope binding way to interpret the traditional Chinese color.
- Operation and Interaction
- The main difficulty of this event design is how to plan the graphic and exhibition content information reasonably in the exhibition space. After many times of coordination with the German exhibition builder, the designer adjusted the proportion, scale, layout and detail processing of the exhibition stand, and finally achieved a good cooperation effect.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June 2016 in Beijing China and finished in October 2016 in Frankfurt Germany. Subsequently, Confucius Institutes and other partners around the world successively presented this book collection and related visual design.
- Specifications
- Because the composition of ink points is relatively free, the picture is suitable for various sizes and can be flexibly applied in 2D plane and 3D space.
- Keywords
- Children's picture book exhibition, children's interest, Chinese ink painting, oriental charm
