Buddha Said イラストレーションシリーズ by Mengjia Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銅賞 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.
銅グラフィック· 2021
Buddha Said イラストレーションシリーズ
by Mengjia Li
Client: Northeastern University
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in グラフィック Category
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About Buddha Said イラストレーションシリーズ
『仏説』は敦煌壁画に着想を得たイラストレーションシリーズである。壁画に描かれた古典的な五つの物語を選び、本シリーズのために描き直した。各物語の登場人物を洗練させ、現代的なグラフィックスタイルで情景と組み合わせている。敦煌壁画から抽出した色彩が、画面に荘厳で神秘的な雰囲気を与えている。イラストレーションはベクターデザインソフトウェアで制作され、800×800ミリメートルの高解像度で印刷されている。伝統と現代デザインを結び付け、これらの壁画の物語をより広く一般に知ってもらうことを目的としている。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Buddha Said イラストレーションシリーズは、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。Buddha Said イラストレーションシリーズは、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。Buddha Said イラストレーションシリーズは、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
- Through reading and understanding a large number of relevant materials of Dunhuang frescoes, this paper combines traditional frescoes with modern illustration design, explores the integration of tradition and modernity, and thus creates illustration design works with modern design flavor and national characteristics.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Printing illustrations:800mm (H) x 800mm (W) (sheet size), Data size:1800mm (H) x 1800mm (W), 300dpi, cmyk.
- Tags
- Dunhuang, illustration design, mural story, traditional culture, Silk Road
- Production Technology
- The series of illustrations and expressions are drawn by the illustrator vector design software. It is produced by high level printing and manufacturing technologies to show the details of beautiful and exquisite illustrations.
- Design Challenge
- The difficulty lies in accurately grasping the characteristics of Dunhuang frescoes, combining modern aesthetics with traditional frescoes, and combining computer technology with traditional crafts to shape modern aesthetic feeling.
- Research
- This design selects the five most classic stories in Dunhuang frescoes for illustration design. First, the characters in the story are refined and skillfully combined. Then, the colors matched with the charm of Dunhuang are used to highlight the magnificent and mysterious atmosphere of the whole illustration. Moreover, the innovation of this illustration design lies in the integration of Dunhuang frescoes into the illustration design, and the integration of Dunhuang elements in the picture also enhances the unity of the whole design.
- Inspiration
- At present, Dunhuang Cultural Development Bureau is only limited to re-creating the image of Feixian, and the same classic Dunhuang mural stories have not been well developed and utilized. This design redesigns and creates Buddhist stories in Dunhuang frescoes, so that these classic frescoes are well known by more people, and the art of Dunhuang frescoes is pushed to the public and the world.
- Project Duration
- Luoyang, the starting point of the Silk Road, is in 2020 .
- Operation Flow
- This design selects the five most classic stories in Dunhuang frescoes for illustration design. First of all, the understanding of Dunhuang frescoes is reconstructed. Secondly, the characters in the story are refined and combined with the story skillfully. Finally, computer coloring with Dunhuang flavor highlights the magnificent and mysterious atmosphere of illustration as a whole.
- Team Members
- Art Director: Huo Kai, designer: Li Mengjia
- Image Credits
- Image #1 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #2 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #3 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #4 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #5 : Li Mengjia, 2020
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