New Year Duab Kos by Jui-Ping Lee is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Hlau in Kev Kos Duab Digital Competition Category.

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New Year Duab Kos

by Jui-Ping Lee

A' Design Award Hlau Winner in Kev Kos Duab Digital Category

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The Design

About New Year Duab Kos

Nyob rau hauv ib lub tshav vaj ntsiag to, nruab nrab ntawm cov daus lub caij ntuj no maj mam poob thiab cov xim zoo nkauj ntawm nplooj ntoo caij nplooj zeeg, zaum ib tug neeg zoo nkauj hnav ib lub Kimono zoo heev. Qhov chaw no ua rau nco txog tus ntsuj plig ntawm Wabisabi, qhia txog kev zoo nkauj ntawm kev nyob ib leeg thiab kev thaj yeeb nyab xeeb. Cov qauv zoo nkauj dai ntawm daim ntaub, feem ntau yog ntoo thuv, sawv cev rau kev hwm; thiab Seigaiha muaj tus qauv rov qab sawv cev rau kev thaj yeeb nyab xeeb ntawm hiav txwv. Thaum ntsia ze ze, pom tau cov ntsiab lus zoo dua, ib daim pob zeb muaj tus kws kos duab lub npe sau tso rau sab laug; thiab saum lub Kimono, cov qauv ntawm nas sawv cev rau lub xyoo tshiab 2020, xyoo nas.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hlau

New Year Duab Kos yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Hlau, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom uas muab rau cov qauv tsim zoo uas ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau ntawm kev ua haujlwm thiab kev lag luam uas xav tau los ntawm cov khoom tsim zoo. Cov neeg yeej Hlau qhia txog kev txawj loj, kev paub tshwj xeeb siab, kev nkag siab ntawm cov kws tshaj lij thiab lub peev xwm tsim ntawm cov neeg tsim. New Year Duab Kos xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom tsim uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub uas siv tau thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Hlau no sib xyaw cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev lag luam thiab muaj cov yam ntxwv siv tshuab txawj ntse txuas nrog kev paub thiab txuj ci. New Year Duab Kos tau txais kev hwm vim nws tag nrho thiab tsim los muab kev txhim kho rau lub neej uas pab ua rau lub ntiaj teb zoo dua.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: An elegant figure with splendid Kimono, serenely sitting in a yard on a cold winter's day at new year, with colourful leaves and slowly showering snow around her that represents the traditional artistic term, Wabisabi (beauty of solitude and tranquility).

If we zoom in, it can be seen that the Patterns are mainly Pines, which is used in the most formal kimono, to be worn only on ceremonious occasions; and also "Seigaiha (sea waves)", which represents tranquility.

Aside from that, the stone plate on the left reads the pen-name of the artist; and on the kimono, there are patterns depicting mice, to celebrate 2020, the year of mouse.
Dimensions & Packaging: Original dimensions at 5600*3150 px, with 935 canvas layers
Tags: Illustration, Kimono, Furisode, Kouyou, Karesansui
Production Technology: Drawn using a Wacom Cintiq Pro 32, with software Easy Paint Tool SAI 2.0
Design Challenge: The key challenge is to make a painting while keep the authenticity of the elements - the kimono, the karesansui ("dry yard") and the red leaves. While many other illustrators prefer drawing kimono-like outfits, this work must be authentic on the kimono design so it can fit the theme properly; under such condition, the creating process became much more difficult due to the fact that it can not be a free-form creation, but a restricted one that the combination of all the elements in the painting must be meticulously designed and crafted.
Research: Research especially on the meaning of the kimono patterns was conducted, to better represent kimono while avoid improper designs. Books and documents are examined, and different combinations of patterns are tried in the painting, and the one with best both cultural and visual effect was determined, resulting in a design which is both having superb color representation and cultural meaning that befit the theme of the work (new year).
Inspiration: When I was sitting alone in my home watching a video about how Kimono's (traditional Japanese dress) are made, I suddenly imagined a figure in Karesansui (Japanese stone yards), surrounded by maples and wearing the most fine, magnificent Kimono; and I, a "photographer", would quietly approach, crouching on the ground and capture the evanescent moment with a single-lens-reflex camera (which is my canvas and pen)
Project Duration: The vague inspiration of it formed since 2017-2018, and the actual drawing started in December 2019, finished & published in January 2020.
Operation Flow: At first sight, you will immediately focus on the figure in the middle, in spite of the fact that the saturation level of the background is much higher. This is called the "blurring perspectives" technic that by burring out items whilst no obvious perspective cues, it creates a huge sense of space, and can lead the beholder to focus their sight at once at the non-blurred items, namely the figure in this painting, sitting in the middle, creating a "photo-like" effect.