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Buddha Said Série d'illustrations by Mengjia Li

Buddha Said Série d'illustrations by Mengjia Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design Graphique Competition Category.


BronzeGraphisme· 2021

Buddha Said Série d'illustrations

by Mengjia Li

Client: Northeastern University

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Graphisme Category

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The Design

About Buddha Said Série d'illustrations

Buddha Said est une série d'illustrations inspirée des fresques de Dunhuang. Cinq récits classiques issus de ces fresques ont été sélectionnés puis redessinés pour la série. Les personnages de chaque histoire sont épurés et associés aux décors dans un style graphique contemporain. Les couleurs empruntées aux peintures murales de Dunhuang confèrent aux images une atmosphère grandiose et mystérieuse. Les illustrations sont réalisées à l'aide d'un logiciel de dessin vectoriel et imprimées en haute résolution au format 800 sur 800 millimètres. L'objectif est d'allier tradition et design moderne afin de faire connaître ces récits muraux à un public plus large.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Buddha Said Série d'illustrations 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. Buddha Said Série d'illustrations 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. Buddha Said Série d'illustrations satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Through reading and understanding a large number of relevant materials of Dunhuang frescoes, this paper combines traditional frescoes with modern illustration design, explores the integration of tradition and modernity, and thus creates illustration design works with modern design flavor and national characteristics.
Dimensions & Packaging
Printing illustrations:800mm (H) x 800mm (W) (sheet size), Data size:1800mm (H) x 1800mm (W), 300dpi, cmyk.
Tags
Dunhuang, illustration design, mural story, traditional culture, Silk Road
Production Technology
The series of illustrations and expressions are drawn by the illustrator vector design software. It is produced by high level printing and manufacturing technologies to show the details of beautiful and exquisite illustrations.
Design Challenge
The difficulty lies in accurately grasping the characteristics of Dunhuang frescoes, combining modern aesthetics with traditional frescoes, and combining computer technology with traditional crafts to shape modern aesthetic feeling.
Research
This design selects the five most classic stories in Dunhuang frescoes for illustration design. First, the characters in the story are refined and skillfully combined. Then, the colors matched with the charm of Dunhuang are used to highlight the magnificent and mysterious atmosphere of the whole illustration. Moreover, the innovation of this illustration design lies in the integration of Dunhuang frescoes into the illustration design, and the integration of Dunhuang elements in the picture also enhances the unity of the whole design.
Inspiration
At present, Dunhuang Cultural Development Bureau is only limited to re-creating the image of Feixian, and the same classic Dunhuang mural stories have not been well developed and utilized. This design redesigns and creates Buddhist stories in Dunhuang frescoes, so that these classic frescoes are well known by more people, and the art of Dunhuang frescoes is pushed to the public and the world.
Project Duration
Luoyang, the starting point of the Silk Road, is in 2020 .
Operation Flow
This design selects the five most classic stories in Dunhuang frescoes for illustration design. First of all, the understanding of Dunhuang frescoes is reconstructed. Secondly, the characters in the story are refined and combined with the story skillfully. Finally, computer coloring with Dunhuang flavor highlights the magnificent and mysterious atmosphere of illustration as a whole.
Team Members
Art Director: Huo Kai, designer: Li Mengjia
Image Credits
Image #1 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #2 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #3 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #4 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #5 : Li Mengjia, 2020

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