Yongle Palace Myth Illustration by Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai

Yongle Palace Myth Illustration by Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design Graphique Competition Category.

BronzeGraphisme· 2020

Yongle Palace Myth Illustration

by Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai

Client: Northeastern University

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Graphisme Category

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The Design

About Yongle Palace Myth Illustration

Yongle Palace Myth est une série d'illustrations de personnages de style cartoon inspirée des fresques du palais de Yongle, situé dans la province du Shanxi, en Chine, et peintes sous la dynastie Yuan. Les figures murales y sont simplifiées, exagérées et ornées afin de correspondre au goût contemporain, tandis que des éléments tels que des grues, des fleurs de lotus et des rubans viennent enrichir les compositions. Les illustrations sont réalisées à l'aide d'un logiciel vectoriel, les outils de courbes permettant de préserver la légèreté des drapés et le trait caractéristique des peintures murales d'origine. Les impressions sont produites en quadrichromie afin de susciter l'intérêt du public pour ces fresques et pour leur préservation.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Yongle Palace Myth Illustration est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Yongle Palace Myth Illustration est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Yongle Palace Myth Illustration satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The frescoes of Yongle Palace in China are made into cartoon figures by computer technology. It is a promising career and bright future to display Yongle Palace culture in a new aesthetic way. The cartoon works include "empress mother", "Emperor Huang Tian", "Queen Mother of the west", "maid" and so on. Cartoon image has found a foothold of design, which is to transform the traditional mural into the image accepted and loved by people.
Dimensions & Packaging: Cartoon figure painting is 127x127cm, 63.5x63.5cm, plane printing.
Tags: Yongle Palace, mural, cartoon, illustration, character, myth.
Production Technology: The cartoon is painted by the vector graphic design software Adobe Illustrator. Bessel tools are widely used to depict the elegant and light feeling of the characters' clothing and the essence of the line drawing art of the Yongle Palace mural. The cartoon is printed in four colors for the promotion of graphic design.
Design Challenge: The line drawing technology of this kind of cartoon painting is not easy, so it is necessary to summarize and sort out the frescoes of Yongle Palace, and grasp the characters' expression and the charm of the line drawing. In particular, to draw traditional mural characters in the form of modern cartoon, we need to transform time and space, which needs to be challenged.
Research: Yongle Palace mural needs publicity and recognition. The cartoon character illustration design is based on the prototype of Yongle Palace mural characters, seizing the verve and body style of the characters, and adopting simplification, exaggeration and decoration techniques to upgrade the characters of Yongle Palace mural. Add crane, lotus, ribbon and other elements to show Chinese "Taoist" art and enhance people's sense of identity.
Inspiration: The inspiration comes from the fresco of Yongle Palace, which is a large-scale fresco art painted in the Yuan Dynasty in Shanxi Province, China. With the development of time, the disappearance of murals in architecture is inevitable. Therefore, the preserved murals of Yongle Palace need to be protected and inherited. The mural characters of Yongle Palace designed with cartoon appeal to people to pay attention to and protect the murals of Yongle Palace.
Project Duration: The project started from March 2019 and finished in September 2019 in Shenyang.
Operation Flow: In the publicity of Yongle Palace, the use of cartoon image is an important part of the publicity. With the aesthetic and hobbies of modern people, people's interest and understanding of Yongle Palace will be enhanced, and the murals of Yongle Palace will be deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Team Members: Design Director:Huo Kai, Illustrator: Wang Yumeng
Image Credits: Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai, 2019.