Zodiacville Runners 어린이 도서 일러스트레이션 by Juyeon Park

Zodiacville Runners 어린이 도서 일러스트레이션 by Juyeon Park is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 동상 in 인쇄 및 출판 미디어 디자인 Competition Category.

동인쇄· 2021

Zodiacville Runners 어린이 도서 일러스트레이션

by Juyeon Park

Client: Karandashi

A' Design Award 동상 Winner in 인쇄 Category

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The Design

About Zodiacville Runners 어린이 도서 일러스트레이션

조디악빌 러너스는 용왕이 개최한 달리기 축제에 참가하는 조디악빌 동물들의 이야기를 담은 어린이 창작 동화 그림책이다. 일러스트레이션은 한국 전통 민화의 특징과 디지털 점묘 기법을 결합하였다. 동양화의 배채법에서 착안하여 흐릿한 점을 하나하나 겹겹이 쌓아 올렸다. 책은 260×260밀리미터 규격이며, 안전을 위해 모서리를 둥글게 처리하였다. 1부는 어린이를 위한 이야기를 담았고, 2부는 교육자를 위한 학습 지도 자료와 보충 자료를 제공한다.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 동상

Zodiacville Runners 어린이 도서 일러스트레이션, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 동상 수상작으로, 창의성, 독창성, 영민함으로 돋보이는 뛰어난 디자인에 수여되는 높은 권위의 인정입니다. 동상 수상작은 충분히 숙련되고 인상적으로 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 폭넓은 경험, 상상력, 기지를 입증합니다. Zodiacville Runners 어린이 도서 일러스트레이션, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 사물로서 두드러지게 전문적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 동상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 모범 사례를 담고 있으며 세부에 대한 주의로 훌륭합니다. Zodiacville Runners 어린이 도서 일러스트레이션, 이 작품은 필요를 훌륭하게 충족하고 욕망에 닿으며 감정을 매료하고 호기심을 불러일으킵니다.

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