The Zlin Region 브랜드 아이덴티티 by Radoslav Dostal is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 동상 in 그래픽, 일러스트레이션 및 시각 커뮤니케이션 디자인 Competition Category.
동그래픽· 2023
The Zlin Region 브랜드 아이덴티티
Client: Zlín Region
A' Design Award 동상 Winner in 그래픽 Category
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The Design
About The Zlin Region 브랜드 아이덴티티
즐린 지역(Zlin Region)은 체코공화국의 한 지역을 위해 개발된 브랜드 및 비주얼 아이덴티티입니다. 아이덴티티는 정사각형을 기본 요소로 하며, 네 모서리는 이 지역의 네 개 역사적 행정 구역을 상징합니다. 정사각형은 디자인을 감싸는 프레임인 동시에, 형태와 문자가 그 가장자리를 넘어 뻗어 나가면서 변화가 일어나는 지점을 표시합니다. 색상은 검정, 흰색, 진한 노랑, 밝은 노랑으로 구성되며, 노랑은 즐린의 전통 색상을 의미합니다. 이 아이덴티티는 지역과 그곳 사람들의 창의적이고 진취적인 기업가 정신을 표현합니다.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 동상
The Zlin Region 브랜드 아이덴티티, 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. The Zlin Region 브랜드 아이덴티티, 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. The Zlin Region 브랜드 아이덴티티, 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
- The design dispenses carefully crafted brand DNA and essence of Live Creative Spirit to reinterpret the phrase Outside The Box. This manifests through a complex square-based visual identity, portraying a philosophical dichotomy of self imposed limits and unrestricted possibilities. A Region Without Borders symbolising Zlin's creative and entrepreneurial spirit, ambition, worldliness and courage. Where the region's creativity breaks out beyond a boxed in comfort zone and our own shadows.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Digital
- Tags
- Zlin, Czech Republic, creativity, borders, square, architecture, DNA, change, openness,
- Production Technology
- The design and methodologies disrupt traditional Czech regional branding styles. The square's edges represent natural roots, anchoring and framing, while denoting where transformation happens. A creative cube defying corners, recast as a box growing beyond imagined and actual borders. Amid the primary colours black, white, dark yellow, light yellow. Yellow is a reverential nod to Zlin's traditional hue. Covering part of the word Zlinsky emphasises the iconoclasm of the design and region.
- Design Challenge
- Perhaps the hardest challenge was to overcome the region's recent history. A declining population had been leaking talent to Prague. Existing branding had been hampered by a traditionally dry and dull approach. This presented challenges when it came to reframing historical and social perspectives. Faced with these obstacles, it was a strategic and creative decision to go bold with the branding, breaking out from the constraints of the past.
- Research
- The project started by examining Zlin's history and its visionaries. Among these, Tomas Bata, one of the world's biggest footwear manufacturers and retailers. Analysing his and others successes formed the basis for the brand essence of Live Creative Spirit. Discussions with the Regional Governor uncovered a disconnect between the region's youth and the area and government. This inspired the logo design to be as a visual disruptor, defying pigeonholes and inspiring creativity.
- Inspiration
- The turbulent times we live in, technology driven changes, plus ever evolving Zlin, all are inspirations for the project. The Czech Henry Ford, Tomas Bata the visionary, is a catalyst and totem with his saying What you want, you can. Of course, the region's inhabitants too, as their creativity enables emancipation from self imposed mental borders. Geographic frontiers are also motivations, with the square's four corners representing Zlin's four historical districts.
- Project Duration
- The project started in 2021, when the government decided it needed a rebrand. The project finished in 2022.
- Operation Flow
- The design transforms perceptions and conceptions of Zlin. Positioning the region away from Prague's periphery, towards a new horizon of creativity and innovation. These characteristics are inherent to the region, and can now be exported through its inhabitants, as they interact and break through the four walls, in a physical and metaphorical sense. The square performs as their base, providing the foundation for communicating the brand's values of acting, thinking and living Outside The Box.
- Team Members
- Strategy: Zuzana Behova, Jan Blazek
Creative Director: Tomas Nedved
Art Director: Radoslav Dostal
Graphic Designer: Milan Nguyen - Image Credits
- Photographer Julius Filip
Film maker Radim Vanous
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