Yongle Palace Myth Ke Kiʻi by Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai

Yongle Palace Myth Ke Kiʻi by Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Kiʻi, Kiʻi Paʻi a me Kamaʻilio ʻIke Competition Category.

KeleaweKiʻi· 2020

Yongle Palace Myth Ke Kiʻi

by Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai

Client: Northeastern University

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Kiʻi Category

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The Design

About Yongle Palace Myth Ke Kiʻi

ʻO Yongle Palace Myth kekahi ʻano moʻolelo kiʻi kiʻiʻoniʻoni i hoʻokumu ʻia ma nā kiʻi pena pā o Yongle Palace ma Shanxi, Kina, i pena ʻia i ka wā aliʻi ʻo Yuan. Ua hoʻomaʻalahi ʻia, hoʻonui like ʻole ʻia, a hoʻonani hou ʻia nā kiʻi kanaka o ka pā kiʻi e kūpono ai i ka ʻono o kēia au hou, a ua hoʻohui ʻia nā mea like me nā manu ʻiwa, nā pua lotus, a me nā lipine. Ua kaha ʻia nā kiʻi me ka polokalamu vector, a ua hoʻohana ʻia nā mīkini kolamu e mālama ai i ke ʻano māmā o ka lole a me ke kaha laina o nā pā kiʻi kumu. Ua hoʻopuka ʻia nā kiʻi paʻi ma nā waihoʻoluʻu ʻehā e hoʻoulu ai i ka hoihoi o ka lehulehu i nā pā kiʻi a me ka pale ʻana iā lākou.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Yongle Palace Myth Ke Kiʻi i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Yongle Palace Myth Ke Kiʻi he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Yongle Palace Myth Ke Kiʻi i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

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.