Press Release
Traveling in Virtual Space Textbook by Miraen Design Team Receives the Golden A' Design Award in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
Miraen Design Team recognized for education, teaching aid and training content design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Traveling in Virtual Space Textbook by Miraen Design Team, designed for Mirae-N, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Traveling in Virtual Space Textbook
Traveling in Virtual Space is a cover design for elementary school textbooks. The illustration extends from the front cover to the back cover to suggest one continuous space. Students can scan the cover with a mobile application to start an augmented reality mode, in which the illustrated space responds to touch and adds sound. The covers are produced with finishing methods such as color foil and silk epoxy to create a three-dimensional feel. The design uses travel stories and familiar characters to raise curiosity and to support experience-based learning.
About Miraen Design Team
Mirae-N Design Team is an expert group of designers in Mirae-N Company. The team covers all design related projects of the company and deals with a wide range of design areas such as editorial, web, brand, communication, space, and so on. All members believe that creative efforts could make people’s lives richer and better in many aspects by connecting people and their thoughts and minds. The team strives for better design in all areas than ever before.
Award Record
This recognition makes Miraen Design Team a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2022 - 2023 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Award
The A' Education Design Award is an international competition recognizing good education products and projects by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to education designers, teaching aid designers, training content creators and curriculum developers from all countries. Typical entries include textbooks, e-learning platforms, educational games, training manuals, instructional videos and interactive whiteboards. The awarded education designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/education
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/148331
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/148331
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!148331
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/315336
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.mirae-n.com
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Traveling in Virtual Space Textbook
- Function
- Textbook
- Category
- Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Education
- Colors
- Sea Green, Khaki, Light Pink, Medium Turquoise and Light Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Mirae-N
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Miraen Design Team
- Country
- Republic of Korea
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #148331
Credits
- Team
- Creative Director Hyunji Son, Project Manager Kiwook Kim, Designer Byeongjin Jang, jihye Yoon, Jinhee Lee, Media Design Seyoung Hong and AR EX Corporation
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- It is the cover design for elementary school textbooks which enables experience based learning through the indirect travel in the space of the cover. The illustration was expressed from the front side of the cover to the rear side of it to provide the concept of space. It also made it possible for the students to think and imagine three dimensionally by enabling them to experience the virtual space with the usage of the AR that can be activated on the app.
- Inspiration
- Easy access to an unapproachable textbook was given by meshing various things that could only be gained from the experience into the study materials and also three dimensional understanding of the study materials was enabled by widening the boundaries of what students can imagine with three dimensional vividness through a newly developed AR system
- Research
- A lot of thoughts were carefully put into the design to have it play a role to increase the expectation and curiosity level about the study contents in non-governmental organization’s textbook. The story of traveling and characters in the daily life were chosen to be used as a bridge between the students and the textbook to connect them. Also, the range of thinking was widened with the enabled AR experience which allows the students to think beyond just the printing.
- Challenge
- Search for visual images (characters) and concept that could match students’ interest as a non-governmental organization’s textbook for elementary school was conducted and the stories related to the study contents were sought after for the increased curiosity and aggressive participation in studying. It was made possible for a new experience by creating the virtual space with the application of AR through the new technologies and trend search.
- Realization and Technology
- The cover was made with 3D feel to it which allows 3D-like thinking and imagination with abundance by enabling the students experience AR along with the application of various post process technologies such as the use of color foil, silk epoxy, etc. It was designed with the implementation of marker technology to automatically get the AR mode on when the picture of the cover image is taken after downloading the AR app - MiraeN’s textbook travel
- Operation and Interaction
- Study contents for each subject can be naturally experienced through traveling. It was designed for the students to learn the study contents naturally by traveling the space on the cover page, not the flat cover page, with keywords of joy, imagine, adventure with the familiar characters. By enabling the aggressive interactive communication in the virtual space between the users and the book with the AR system that reacts upon touches and speaks on the things in the background.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was planned and produced from November 2021 to 2022 and it is projected to be used as a textbook for the 5th and 6th grades from the first semester of 2023
- Specifications
- Frame 210 x 275mm Height Social Studies 5-1 8.5mm, Social Studies 5-2 8.8mm, Social Studies 6-1 8.5mm, Social Studies 6-2 8mm, Math 5-1 10mm, Math 5-1 10mm, Math 5-2 10.5mm, Math 6-1 11mm, Math 6-2 9.5mm, Science 5-1 5mm, Science 5-2 6mm, Science 6-1 5mm, Science 6-2 5mm AR experience is available both on Android and IOS
- Keywords
- Textbook,Cover,Education,Branding
