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Yanliu Cui Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Chinese Sports Illustration in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Yanliu Cui acknowledged for graphics, illustration and visual communication design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Chinese Sports Illustration by Yanliu Cui, designed for Northeastern University of China, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Chinese Sports Illustration
Chinese Sports is a series of five illustrations about traditional Chinese sports. The set depicts acrobatics, cuju, equestrian sports, the five animal exercises and throwing. Each illustration places its sport within the historical period in which the sport was popular, so the images combine a sense of history with a sense of movement. The sketches were drawn in pencil, then scanned and completed with digital painting software. The series was released online to help the public learn about the cultural meaning of these traditional sports.
About Yanliu Cui
Cui Yanliu, Master of Science, Northeast University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. She is very interested in traditional Chinese culture and is committed to the application of traditional Chinese culture in illustration design. He has won more than ten domestic and international awards, including the second prize of the China Computer Design Competition and the silver medal of the London China Art Exchange Exhibition. Her illustration design has high cultural value.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yanliu Cui is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/149060
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/149060
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!149060
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/342569
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://pan.baidu.com
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Chinese Sports Illustration
- Function
- Illustration
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Dark Orange, Light Coral, Chocolate, Sandy Brown and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Northeastern University of China
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yanliu Cui
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #149060
Credits
- Image Credits
- Cui Yanliu, Zhang Jiayu, Ju Jijing, 2022.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A set of illustrations about traditional Chinese sports, including "acrobatics", "Cuju", "equestrian", "Five poultry opera" and "throwing", depict the sports while showing different backgrounds of The Times. This group of illustrations is characterized by both a sense of historical weight and a sense of kinetic vitality, showing the charm of Oriental culture.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration of the illustration comes from traditional Chinese sports. Many sports in China have been passed down for thousands of years. Illustrators try to show sports with distinct Oriental cultural characteristics in the long history of China, and show the wisdom, rich imagination and creative spirit of the ancestors to the modern people, as well as fully reflect the philosophical connotation, cultural connotation and humanistic spirit contained in sports.
- Research
- Under the background of the vigorous development of sports events around the world, this study, based on the oriental perspective, collected five different traditional Chinese sports, namely "acrobatics", "cuju", "equestrian", "five bird games" and "throwing", by consulting ancient books and relevant papers, and created five different theme illustrations according to the different times at that time, It is helpful for people to further understand the philosophical connotation, cultural connotation and humanistic spirit contained in Chinese traditional sports.
- Challenge
- The difficulty lies in looking up the relevant background information of the times. China's history has a long history. It is difficult to find the background of the times in which sports with different characteristics flourished in the long history. Only by reading a large number of documents and the aid of mind maps can we achieve the perfect integration of sports and the times, realize the combination of modern aesthetics and traditional elements, and make the picture have both the sense of history and the sense of vitality of sports.
- Realization and Technology
- The sketches were drawn in pencil, then scanned and drawn using Photoshop.
- Operation and Interaction
- The illustration was released on the Internet to attract the public and show the charm of traditional Chinese sports.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was started at Northeast University in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China in December 2022 and completed at Northeast University in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China in February 2023.
- Specifications
- Printing illustrations: Height 800mm x Width 800mm, Data size: Height 1800mm x Width 800mm, 300dpi, RGB.
- Keywords
- China, Sports, Illustration, Acrobatics, Cuju, Horsemanship, Five Poultry Play, Throwing
