Let Parents Stay Pismo by Yu Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Brončana nagrada A' Design Award in Dizajn Grafike, Ilustracije i Vizualne Komunikacije Competition Category.

BroncaGrafika· 2021

Let Parents Stay Pismo

by Yu Chen

Client: Hubei University of Technology

Brončana nagrada A' Design Award Winner in Grafika Category

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The Design

About Let Parents Stay Pismo

Let Parents Stay je pismo nadahnuto tradicionalnim Han vezom, stvoreno kako bi pružilo podršku siromašnom selu. Selo Jinling dom je za više od dvije tisuće djece koju su roditelji ostavili zbog odlaska na rad, a mnogi mještani vješti su u Han vezu. Lokalni proizvodi s vezom slabo su se prodavali jer se uzorak nije značajnije mijenjao stoljeće unazad. Klasični elementi veza apstrahirani su i rekonstruirani u moderne oblike slova, koje lokalne vezilje ručno izrađuju. Cilj je ostvariti prihod i prenijeti ovaj obrt na nove generacije kroz moderni vizualni jezik.

The Recognition

About the Brončana nagrada A' Design Award

Let Parents Stay Pismo je pobjednik Brončane nagrade A' Design Award, visoko prestižnog priznanja koje se dodjeljuje izvanrednim dizajnima što se odlikuju kreativnošću, domišljatošću i oštroumnošću. Brončani pobjednici izdašno su vješti i upečatljivo kreativni artefakti koji potvrđuju golemo iskustvo, maštu i snalažljivost svojih dizajnera. Očekuje se da Let Parents Stay Pismo bude visoko cijenjen, voljen i njegovan predmet koji je izuzetno profesionalan i inovativan. Ovaj dizajn koji je osvojio Brončanu nagradu A' Design Award uključuje najbolje prakse u umjetnosti, znanosti, dizajnu i tehnologiji i izvrstan je zbog pažnje posvećene detaljima. Let Parents Stay Pismo sjajno zadovoljava potrebe, dotiče želje, očarava osjećaje i privlači znatiželju.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Jinling Village is a poverty-stricken village with More than 2,000 “left-behind” children. When the designer got there, he was surprised to find that all the local people had mastered certain Han Embroidery skills, but their product not sell well because of the old fashion style. So he worked with the Hubei Han Embroidery Association to help revive the local Han Embroidery culture.
Dimensions & Packaging: Han Embroidery
Tags: Han Embroidery, Embroidery, Typeface, Pattern, Visual
Production Technology: Han Embroidery
Design Challenge: Here is a breakdown of several classic elements from traditional Chinese embroidery patterns. They are abstracted according to modern aesthetics, to reconstruct classic elements, bring out the culture hidden behind the patterns, to master the unchangeable pattern combinations of traditional Chinese embroidery, and produce a brand-new visual language. Creating a typeface composed of extracted Han Embroidery elements and ask the local poverty-stricken embroidery workers to embroider the letters of this font through the techniques of Han Embroidery.
Research: Like most handicrafts, Han embroidery has several problems, for example, a long production cycle, a long time cost, low economic benefit, and poor quality. Also, the traditional Han Embroidery patterns have undergone little to no innovation over the past hundred years, so they can’t meet standards of the modern aesthetic, resulting in low consumer recognition.
Inspiration: In addition to two years of commercial operations, the designer has created a modern typeface, on a trial basis, by extracting the elements of traditional embroidery, deconstructing their texture, and the traditional Jing-Chu Culture, he promoted the inheritance of the old embroidery on the verge of extinction in a modern aesthetic manner, Inheriting tradition and carry on this embroidery craft that is on the verge of extinction by a new typeface, so as to pass down the craft in a modern language.
Patents: Yu Chen
Team Members: Yu Chen
Xin Wang
Yongshan Zhu
Die Hu
Robin Liu
Shan Li
Yi Gu
Meng Zhu
Sailan Ding
Image Credits: Yu Chen