Cats In The Bag イラストレーション by Kozo Asada is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in グラフィックス・イラストレーション・ビジュアルコミュニケーションデザイン Competition Category.

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Cats In The Bag イラストレーション

by Kozo Asada

Client: Kozo Asada

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in グラフィック Category

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The Design

About Cats In The Bag イラストレーション

「Cats In The Bag」は、バッグの中でくつろぐ猫たちを描いた額装イラストレーションのシリーズです。それぞれの作品は、猫とともにある日常のささやかな情景を描いています。長毛種、短毛種、無毛種の猫が登場し、さまざまな形のバッグと組み合わされています。イラストレーションはデジタルで描かれた後、シルクスクリーンによってアクリル板にプリントされています。複数のプリント板を専用フレーム内に重ね、その背面に紙とカッティングシートを配することで、見る角度が変わると絵柄が立体的に浮かび上がります。各作品は422×422ミリメートルの正方形です。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

Cats In The Bag イラストレーションは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Cats In The Bag イラストレーションは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Cats In The Bag イラストレーションは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: This is a project to bring the presence of cats into everyday life.
He drew a simple graphical representation of a cat and a bag, a scene that could exist in everyday life.
When you actually look at the work, it looks three-dimensional and therefore attracts your attention in your daily life.
The theme of the work is cats with a wide variety of hair, including long-haired, short-haired, and hairless cats.
She has also chosen to use bags with different appearances.
Dimensions & Packaging: Height:422mm x Width:422mm x Depth:50mm (including the frame)
Tags: cat, bag, illustration, art, silkscreen
Production Technology: He examined what methods are appropriate for fixing digitally painted illustrations to the acrylic plates.
A silk-screening technique was employed. We also experimented with a method of creating a three-dimensional effect by layering the acrylic plates.
An original picture frame is made to fit two acrylic plates.
Materials used: acrylic plate, silk screen, acryl gouache. paper, cutting seat.
Design Challenge: When you see a painting in an actual gallery.
Which size of exhibit looks the most beautiful?
Because of the distance between you and the person viewing your work and the influence of the lighting.
Which size of picture is best suited to create
He created and considered a variety of sizes.
For the display of this piece, there was a need to create the minimalist and simple presence of the illustration, so I
He made it a primitive square.
Research: The first thing we did was to investigate what types of cats there are.
They have different lengths and patterns of hair depending on the type.
It also has its own unique pose and big changes in appearance.
He have examined those differences in combination with the bag and the way it looks attractive.
Inspiration: This project was born from the essential relationship between cats and bags in daily life. It is common to see a cat sleeping in a bag or a plastic bag in daily life with a cat, which is a posterior neck.Cats are said to have always liked small spaces, and it is said that they used to protect themselves from enemies and to rest in small spaces. For cats kept in modern houses, the bag seemed to be used as a single nest for them.Watching them resting in their bags, as if the two had been that way from the beginning. I felt that the relationship was complementary to each other.
Project Duration: The project began in Tokyo in April 2016.
Solo exhibitions have been held in Tokyo and Hiroshima.
Operation Flow: Multiple silkscreened acrylic boards are stacked on top of each other, and paper and cutting sheets are placed at the bottom to create a single painting.
Between the acrylic boards, He put them in a special frame.
It is made to produce a three-dimensional effect by shifting the viewfinder's perspective from a few millimeters away.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Kozo, 2016
Team Members: Art Director: Kozo Asada, Illustrator: Kozo, Photographer: Arisa Kasai
Image Credits: Image 1: Illustration Kozo, Photographer Arisa Kasai, 2016 .
Optional Image 1: Illustration Kozo, Photographer Arisa Kasai, 2016.
Optional Image 2: Illustration Kozo, Photographer Arisa Kasai, 2016.
Optional Image 3: Illustration Kozo, Photographer Arisa Kasai, 2016.
Optional Image 4: Illustration Kozo, Photographer Arisa Kasai, 2016.