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Sunghoon Kim Is Honored with the A' Design Award for 87MM Ilsang Font Design in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Sunghoon Kim honored for graphics, illustration and visual communication design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ 87MM Ilsang Font Design by Sunghoon Kim, designed for 87mm, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About 87MM Ilsang Font Design
The font of 87MM Ilsang is designed with consideration for the daily value pursued by the 87MM brand. The oblique font in Korean is the first font to be attempted in Korea. By interpreting the numbers 8 and 7 as the ratio and angle of the font, the area of the letters was designed as a space of 8:7, and the size of the closed letters among the consonants of Hangeul (Korean Alphabet) was adjusted using this ratio. The 8 and 7 degrees angles were used as morphological elements such as a stem and a conclusion to harmonize the characteristics of handwriting that appear when writing sideways.
About Sunghoon Kim
Kim sunghoon is a graphic designer based in seoul, south korea. Starting with graphic design based on typography, he is a graphic designer who is interested in using various visual languages such as image and digital as a means of communication and is working on a number of projects. He is working on a variety of projects with different personalities, creating each communication tool that fits the project as a result of the design. By doing so, the company is expanding its scope to graphic design, such as public design, space design, signage design, exhibition design, information design, brand design, digital design.
Award Record
With this recognition, Sunghoon Kim is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Award
The A' Graphic Design Award is an international graphic design competition recognizing good graphic designs by best creative agencies and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to graphic designers, communication designers, graphic artists and illustrators from all countries. Entries typically include logos, posters, infographics, brochures, packaging designs and business cards. Awarded graphic designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/graphics
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/139447
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139447
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139447
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/227011
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- 87MM Ilsang Font Design
- Function
- Font Design
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Black, Pale Turquoise, Gray, Dark Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- 87mm
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Sunghoon Kim
- Country
- Republic of Korea
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #139447
Credits
- Team
- Kim Sunghoon and Ku Moa
- Image Credits
- Kim Sunghoon
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- He designed a dedicated font for 87MM, a Korean fashion brand. 87MM is Korea's leading fashion brand that creates a daily culture through sense and wit. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the brand's launch in 2011, he has designed a dedicated font that can show the identity of 87MM. Anyone who likes 87MM and enjoys it can download and use it for free.
- Inspiration
- The font of 87MM Ilsang is designed with consideration for the daily value pursued by the 87MM brand. Ordinary days that repeat every day gather to create a daily life. However, even if he repeat the same pattern, He wanted to create a font where he could discover new meanings and fun in ordinary things in his daily life and feel the specialty of something a little different. Therefore, 87MM Ilsang has a unique color of 87MM in its ordinary textual Min-Buri (Sans Serif) font.
- Research
- When designing fonts, it is common to expand the font family to thickness. However, in East Asia, along with Korean fonts, there is no concept of Western italic fonts or oblique fonts due to the culture of writing using brushes and writing in the vertical direction. Therefore, the font family was intended to be expanded to general and inclined bodies, not to be expanded by thickness. The oblique font in Korean is the first font to be attempted in Korea.
- Challenge
- By interpreting the numbers 8 and 7 as the ratio and angle of the font, the area of the letters was designed as a space of 8:7, and the size of the closed letters among the consonants of Hangeul was adjusted using this ratio. The 8° and 7° angles were used as morphological elements such as a stem and a conclusion to harmonize the characteristics of handwriting that appear when writing sideways.
- Operation and Interaction
- The value of daily life in the 87MM brand is special. In 2021, to mark the 10th anniversary of its establishment, fonts, an important means of expression that he use on a daily basis, were reinterpreted into the wit possessed by 87MM and introduced into two fonts: 87MM Ilsang Regular and 87MM Ilsang Oblique. Through fonts, he wants to evoke the importance of daily life, become the beginning of people who are interested in fashion, and become a brand that shares daily life.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project began in Seoul, South Korea in March 2021 and ended in January 2022. You can download and use the font for free from January 2022.
- Specifications
- 2 Variations (Regular, Oblique) / Hangeul 2,782 letters / Latin Alphabet 214 letters / Symbol 838 letters / Multi glyph
- Keywords
- 87MM, brand font, font, design, graphic, typography
