Xicang Market Buku by Dong Qi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 A' Design Award Perak in Desain Media Cetak dan Terbitan Competition Category.

PerakCetak· 2019

Xicang Market Buku

by Dong Qi

Client: Local本地

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Cetak Category

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The Design

About Xicang Market Buku

Xicang Market adalah sebuah buku yang mendokumentasikan pasar jalanan mingguan di Xi'an, Tiongkok. Buku ini merekam benda-benda yang digunakan sebagai lapak, cara-cara memajang barang dagangan, papan tanda tulisan tangan, serta hubungan antara manusia dan benda. Desainnya dibuat seminimal mungkin agar materinya tersaji secara apa adanya. Buku ini terbagi menjadi delapan bab: lokasi, pasar, papan tanda, lapak, kisah lisan, barang dagangan, harga, dan pedagang. Setiap bab berdiri sendiri dan menghadirkan kembali sebagian suasana pasar. Kertas yang menyerupai selebaran iklan yang ditemukan di pasar dipilih untuk salah satu bab.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Xicang Market Buku adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perak, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain kelas atas yang indah dan mengesankan. Pemenang Perak adalah karya yang sangat cemerlang dan sangat kreatif yang menggambarkan keahlian, bakat, dan ketajaman luar biasa para desainernya. Xicang Market Buku diharapkan menjadi karya yang menakjubkan, etalase keahlian, sangat profesional, dan sangat inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perak ini adalah penemuan yang sangat menonjol dan dikagumi yang bermanfaat bagi dan memajukan batas-batas seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi. Xicang Market Buku adalah kreasi yang sangat dicemburui yang membangkitkan keinginan, membawa perasaan positif, dan memercikkan keheranan dan kekaguman.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Observe the Transitional China from the Disappearing Market in Urban Areas.Xi'an, the ancient city in China, is in a great change. A market like Xicang market, held at the same time and same place every week, preserving all the vivid civil life here,,rarely exists now in a city. The design of the book also well conformed to the creator's intention,simply a presentation.
Dimensions & Packaging: 185mm x 55mm x 240mm
Tags: raw,locally,handwriting,Unmodified,portrait
Production Technology: The whole book is divided into eight chapters: location, market, signs, stalls, oral accounts, goods, price and vendors according to the main elements of a local market. Therefore, the idea is to minimize the design and restore the scene of the marketplace (e.g. the supplement part) by every independent chapter. For example, the paper of advertising flyers frequently appeared in Xicang market is the option as the paper of certain chapter of the book to reflect the character of a market by its special texture.
Design Challenge: Xicang market was 100 years old and has certainly changed a lot over the 20 years in China,The design of the book also well conformed to the creator’s intention- simply a presentation. The whole book is divided into eight chapters: location, market, signs, stalls, oral accounts, goods, price and vendors according to the main elements of a local market. Therefore, the idea is to minimize the design and restore the scene of the marketplace (e.g. the supplement part) by every independent chapter.
Research: Observe the Transitional China from the Disappearing Market in Urban Areas ,Xi’an, the ancient city in China, is in a great change. A market like Xicang market, held at the same time and same place every week, preserving all the vivid civil life here, rarely exists now in a city. People here are unusually vivid, typical Xicang and local.We hope to record and present with this book.
Inspiration: The choice of the objects to be used as stalls, the way of displaying, the daily design of the handwritten signs and the relationship between people and objects, are the most prominent features the book want to show. Therefore, the idea is to minimize the design and restore the scene of the marketplace by every independent chapter.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2015 in Xi'an and finished in August 2018 in Xi'an,and was exhibited in Xi'an urban memory museum in October 2018.
Operation Flow: Xicang market has held two exhibitions, with books and image record. The vendors and local residents of Xicang Market and the local government were invited to visit.
Team Members: Song Qun,Geng Nannan,Tian Yuan,Sun Mingjia,Zhao Yanpeng,Sun Quncui,Guo Xin,Cheng Jiayuan,Ding Rui,Chen Gang,Zhao Shuang