Speech Bubbie Tipografi by Xu Hanmin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Perunggu in Desain Grafis, Ilustrasi dan Komunikasi Visual Competition Category.

PerungguGrafis· 2023

Speech Bubbie Tipografi

by Xu Hanmin

Client: Yi Xiao Jian Da

A' Design Award Perunggu Winner in Grafis Category

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The Design

About Speech Bubbie Tipografi

Speech Bubbie adalah sebuah tipografi yang dirancang untuk huruf Latin dan karakter Tionghoa. Balon ucapan merupakan konvensi grafis yang digunakan dalam dialog buku komik, dan bentuk huruf juga mampu menyiratkan emosi dalam tulisan. Keterkaitan antara kedua elemen grafis tersebut menghasilkan struktur baru bagi huruf dan karakter yang berlandaskan bentuk khas buku komik. Goresan disederhanakan menjadi bentuk balon ucapan yang generik, namun tetap mengikuti arah goresan aslinya, sehingga keterbacaan tetap terjaga. Tipografi ini pertama-tama digambar dengan tangan, lalu diproduksi menggunakan perangkat lunak vektor.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perunggu

Speech Bubbie Tipografi adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain luar biasa yang dicirikan oleh kreativitas, kecerdikan, dan ketajaman. Pemenang Perunggu adalah artefak yang sangat terampil dan sangat kreatif yang membuktikan pengalaman luas, imajinasi, dan kelihaian para desainernya. Speech Bubbie Tipografi diharapkan menjadi objek yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi, dan dicintai, sangat profesional dan inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu ini menyertakan praktik terbaik dalam seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi, dan sangat baik dalam perhatiannya pada detail. Speech Bubbie Tipografi memuaskan kebutuhan dengan indah, menyentuh keinginan, memikat perasaan, dan menarik rasa ingin tahu.

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