Umano ブランドアイデンティティ by Ruis Vargas 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.

鉄グラフィック· 2021

Umano ブランドアイデンティティ

by Ruis Vargas

Client: Laika

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

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The Design

About Umano ブランドアイデンティティ

Umanoは、ブラジル・サンパウロのホテルバーのために制作されたブランドアイデンティティである。このアイデンティティは、ユーモアと外来の影響の自由な再解釈を結びつける文学的概念「文化的食人主義（アントロポファジア）」に着想を得ている。プロジェクトには、ロゴタイプ、300グラムのオフセット紙を用いた名刺、メニュー、バッグ、サーフェスデザイン、そして75グラムのオフセット紙に印刷して内壁に貼り付けたポスターが含まれる。グラフィックと建築が組み合わさり、街の風景や地域の詩を再解釈するビジュアルナラティブを形づくっている。その狙いは、従来のホテルバーが持つ格式張ったトーンから脱却することにある。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

Umano ブランドアイデンティティは、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。Umano ブランドアイデンティティは、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。Umano ブランドアイデンティティは、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

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Sao Paulo bears the stigma of being a serious and unwelcoming city and their resident is reputed to be less than hospitable. However, since the beginning of the 20th century, there has been a cultural tradition in the city permeated by a sense of humor and artistic invention. Cultural anthropophagy is a product of this. The Umano name and identity project is a break from the traditional seriousness of hotels - a materialized rupture, physically and graphically.
Dimensions & Packaging: Poster sheet format 420 mm x 620 mm on offset paper 75 g. Printed in 4X0 CMYK colors. Business card format 90 x 50 mm printed on 300 g offset paper, in 4 x 4 CMYK colors.
Tags: Brand, poster, logotype, illustration, visual identity, Laika Design
Production Technology: To reify the brand, the identity project consists of business cards, printed in 300 g weight, menu, bag, surface design, architecture interaction and posters. The latter, printed on 75 g offset paper to be glued to walls and sidings inside of the Umano bar.
Design Challenge: Sao Paulo is a city that rebuilds itself every day, houses are demolished and buildings are built quickly, generating trendy neighborhoods at every moment and many regions end up losing their cultural relevance, causing tourists to focus only on these islands of services. The Umano bar needed to be an entertainment and service option authentically from Sao Paulo and that would generate a more intense nightlife in his neighborhood, making loyal the hotel public of the region.
Research: The Laika method is based on the synergy between linguistic and pictorial skills. Every project begins with the construction of its meaning, an affirmation, and the need to design small graphic narratives. Thus, the brand and its visual identity elements, made by Laika, allow the creation of diverse visual narratives, which contemplate the daily needs of communication and realization of the culture of the Umano brand.
Inspiration: The premise to develop a new brand for Ibis’s bar was cultural anthropophagy, a literary concept created by Oswald de Andrade, writer and poet from Sao Paulo. The principal aspect about cultural anthropophagy is the sense of humor: only concerns me what is not mine, say the poet. And an unusual behaviour, which is defined by devour without prejudice any culture that is foreign to it. That concept was the inspiration to create the Umano spirit and the brand’s lifestyle.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2020 and finished in July 2020 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Operation Flow: In the Umano bar, the symbiosis between design and architecture allows to fill every spot of the bar with visual narratives, which invite the client to experience reinterpretations of the city's sights: the geometric designs of the sidewalks or representations of iconic buildings, namely Copan. Many icons are reinterpreted by the language project, such as excerpts of songs and clippings of poems by authors from the city. The client finds a city which deconstructs its seriousness and coldness.
Patents: Laika Design
Team Members: Ruis Vargas, Creative Director, Agnes Svilenov, Designer
Image Credits: Laika Design