Zodiacville Runners 児童書イラストレーション by Juyeon Park

Zodiacville Runners 児童書イラストレーション by Juyeon Park is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銅賞 in 印刷・出版メディアデザイン Competition Category.

銅印刷· 2021

Zodiacville Runners 児童書イラストレーション

by Juyeon Park

Client: Karandashi

A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in 印刷 Category

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The Design

About Zodiacville Runners 児童書イラストレーション

『ゾディアックヴィル・ランナーズ』は、竜王が主催するかけっこ祭りに参加するゾディアックヴィルの動物たちを描いた、イラスト絵本の童話です。イラストレーションは、韓国の伝統的な民画の特徴とデジタル点描のスタイルを融合させています。東洋の裏彩色技法に着想を得て、淡い点を一つひとつ重ねて描き上げました。本のサイズは260×260ミリメートルで、安全性に配慮して角を丸く仕上げています。第一部では子どもたちに向けた物語を展開し、第二部では教育者向けの学習ガイドと補助教材を収録しています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅賞

Zodiacville Runners 児童書イラストレーションは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Zodiacville Runners 児童書イラストレーションは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Zodiacville Runners 児童書イラストレーションは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This project is an experimental mixture of traditional Korean 'minhwa' attributes, fable narratives passed from mouth to mouth, and illustrator's own digital pointillism painting styles. Accordingly, folkish episodes of zodiacville animals are based on the humorous and joyful sentiment of the festival. Furthermore, numerous dilute dots were blended layer by layer, inspired by the oriental back-painting technique.
Dimensions & Packaging: 260mm X 260mm, Rounding post-processing to prevent children from cutting their hands on a book
Tags: Illustration, Fairy Tale, Pointillism, Zodiac
Production Technology: Layering hard-type dots one by one, the illustrator materialized the pointillism in a digital drawing environment.
Design Challenge: There were concerns that humorous expressions could convey distorted visual messages to growing children, as this book was planned to be used in educational sites. Therefore, the contents were continuously consulted by professional elementary teachers and volunteers from youth institutions. Accordingly, the illustrations have undergone modifications to prevent expressing certain races or minority classes in negative stereotypes.
Research: The project is based on anatomical research to represent detailed animal characters that fit the cognitive ability of shapes of teenage children. In advance, the actual bones and muscle structures of the animals in the book were analyzed in detail. After that, the silhouettes were organically simplified and the deformation technique was applied to give character traits.
Inspiration: This is a children's fairy tale about Zodiacville's animals participated in the running festival hosted by the Dragon King. The illustrator and writer enriched episodes with ideas from several workshops in the plot conception stage. For example, a four-character idiom, "Monkeys and dogs don't get along well", was naturally included in the episode.
Project Duration: The duration of the project is from October 2018 to February 2019. The project was mainly carried out in South Korea. Later, other countries where the books are planned to be distributed are Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine.
Operation Flow: The book is divided into Part1 for children and Part 2 for educators. Educators organize classes by referring to learning guides and supplementary materials in Part2, helping children understand contents in Part1. Educators use illustrations and Russian hint texts to encourage children to learn Korean and Korean culture naturally. Furthermore, children infer the situation with illustrations and learn in-depth on what the yellow-highlighted keywords mean in Korean.
Team Members: Juyeon Park
Image Credits: Juyeon Park, 2019