Speech Bubbie Font by Xu Hanmin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Brončana nagrada A' Design Award in Dizajn Grafike, Ilustracije i Vizualne Komunikacije Competition Category.

BroncaGrafika· 2023

Speech Bubbie Font

by Xu Hanmin

Client: Yi Xiao Jian Da

Brončana nagrada A' Design Award Winner in Grafika Category

9,011

Verified Award Winner

Verify Award Status for #144901

View at A' Design Award Press Release Award Badge

Colors

The Design

About Speech Bubbie Font

Speech Bubbie je font dizajniran za latinična slova i kineske znakove. Oblačić za govor grafička je konvencija koja se koristi u dijalozima stripova, a oblici slova također sugeriraju emociju u pismu. Veza između ova dva grafička elementa dovela je do nove strukture slova i znakova temeljene na obliku stripa. Poteze su pojednostavljeni u generičke oblike oblačića za govor, uz zadržavanje smjera izvornih poteza, čime je čitljivost sačuvana. Font je najprije nacrtan rukom, a zatim izrađen pomoću vektorskog softvera.

The Recognition

About the Brončana nagrada A' Design Award

Speech Bubbie Font 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 Speech Bubbie Font 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. Speech Bubbie Font 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: Inspiration comes from: the text box on the text message on the mobile phone is a dialog box graphic, at the same time, on our social chat software, dialogue voice or text, there are dialog box graphics, and the dialogue on the comics we see is also composed of dialog box graphics of. In this way, the dialog graphics are combined with the font strokes
Dimensions & Packaging: Variable size
Tags: Graphic text, Chinese character font design, dialog font
Production Technology: Adobe Illustrator/ hand drawn draft
Design Challenge: To integrate figurative graphics into font strokes, first of all, we must achieve recognition, and second, we must convey the conceptual graphics to be designed.
Research: Speech Bubbie is a graphic convention used most commonly in manga books during dialogues. Similarly,fonts connote emotions in writing.Realising the connection between these two graphic elements,designers borrowed the form from comic books to reformulate the structure of alphabets and Chinese characters. Strokes are simplified into generic forms of speech bubbles while still following the direction of the original strokes,therefore retaining the readability of the character.
Inspiration: Speech Bubbie is a graphic convention used most commonly in manga books during dialogues. Similarly,fonts connote emotions in writing.Realising the connection between these two graphic elements,designers borrowed the form from comic books to reformulate the structure of alphabets and Chinese characters. Strokes are simplified into generic forms of speech bubbles while still following the direction of the original strokes,therefore retaining the readability of the character.
Project Duration: The project started in Shenyang in 2012 and completed in Shenzhen in 2021
Operation Flow: Dialog graphics that appear from mobile phone text messages/social software chats. As well as comic books, people communicate with each other, and dialog graphics also appear.
Patents: Apply for copyright protection
Team Members: xu hanmin
Image Credits: xu hanmin