Printmaking Tibet Kiʻi Hoʻonaninani by Kaixuan Guo

Printmaking Tibet Kiʻi Hoʻonaninani by Kaixuan Guo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Kiʻi, Kiʻi Paʻi a me Kamaʻilio ʻIke Competition Category.

KalaKiʻi· 2024

Printmaking Tibet Kiʻi Hoʻonaninani

by Kaixuan Guo

Client: Northeastern University of China

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Kiʻi Category

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The Design

About Printmaking Tibet Kiʻi Hoʻonaninani

He pūʻulu kiʻi hoʻonaninani ʻo Printmaking Tibet e hōʻike ana i ka moʻomeheu a me ka ʻāina o Tibet. Ua kaha ʻia nā kiʻi me ka polokalamu hoʻolālā kiʻi a hahai i ke ʻano paʻi kiʻi kuʻuna. Ma waena o nā kumuhana, ʻo ka Hale Aliʻi ʻo Potala, nā yak ma ka pāpū hau, a me ke ala huakaʻi haipule ma kahi mamao. Ua hui pū ʻia ka moʻomeheu kuʻuna me ka nani ʻikemaka o kēia au e hōʻike ai i ke ʻano nani, mamao, a haipule o Tibet. He 3600 me 3600 pika ke ana o kēlā me kēia kiʻi ma ka 300 dpi. Hiki ke paʻi ʻia nā kiʻi ma ka pepa uhi ʻia a i ʻole ka lole, a hoʻohana ʻia ma nā huahana moʻomeheu.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Printmaking Tibet Kiʻi Hoʻonaninani i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Printmaking Tibet Kiʻi Hoʻonaninani he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Printmaking Tibet Kiʻi Hoʻonaninani e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The work is a set of illustrations depicting Tibetan culture, which expresses the creativity of excellent national culture through the form of printmaking, and creates the beautiful, remote and pious characteristics of Tibet. The combination of traditional culture and modern artistic aesthetics gives the spiritual connotation of a new era to the pilgrimage road in Tibet.
Dimensions & Packaging: 3600 x 3600 pixels, 300dpi, RGB.
Tags: Tibetan culture, Illustration, Printmaking style, Cultural landscape
Production Technology: The work is drawn by using Photoshop and other graphic design software, and adopts high-level printing and manufacturing techniques to show exquisite details of illustrations. The illustrations can be applied to coated paper printing and cloth printing, etc., and the production materials are determined in the style of cultural and creative products.
Design Challenge: The difficulty lies in the display of national culture, combining modern aesthetics with folk content, and presenting the illustration in a novel form through the understanding of regional cultural connotation.
Research: Tibet is a beautiful and remote part of China, with many unique cultural heritages. The Potala Palace stands under the blue sky and white clouds. The yak grazing on the snowy plateau is the king of the plateau. When he closes his eyes in the incense mist of the Sutras hall, he suddenly hears the truth of chanting sutras. The distant pilgrimage path, walking in it, small and firm, speaks of the long journey and the immortal faith.
Inspiration: As one of the important tourist destinations in China, Tibet has attracted more and more tourists for its unique geographical environment, history, culture and folk customs. Through the illustration design of Tibetan culture and landscape, explore the visual presentation of excellent Chinese culture, use the painting method of printmaking to express the beauty and mystery of Tibet, and further promote different national cultures through design.
Project Duration: The work was created between June 2023 and October 2023 at Northeastern University in China.
Operation Flow: Through the dissemination of excellent traditional Chinese culture in the form of modern aesthetics, people can understand the charm of national culture.The Tibetan theme illustration is drawn by computer to bring the national culture into the public's vision and show the inheritance and affinity of traditional culture in a novel way.
Image Credits: Image #1 : Illustration Guo Kaixuan 2023.
Image #2 : Illustration Guo Kaixuan 2023.
Image #3 : Illustration Guo Kaixuan 2023.
Image #4 : Illustration Guo Kaixuan 2023.
Image #5 : Illustration Guo Kaixuan 2023.