Yongle Palace Myth Munus Illustrandi by Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai

Yongle Palace Myth Munus Illustrandi by Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Graphica Competition Category.

AesGraphica· 2020

Yongle Palace Myth Munus Illustrandi

by Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai

Client: Northeastern University

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Graphica Category

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The Design

About Yongle Palace Myth Munus Illustrandi

Fabula Palatii Yongle est series imaginum figurarum fictarum ex parietinis picturis Palatii Yongle in Shanxi, Sina, quae tempore Dynastiae Yuan pictae sunt, ductarum. Figurae murales ad gustum recentiorem simpliciores, exaggeratae et ornatae redduntur, et elementa velut grues, flores loti et fasciae adiciuntur. Imagines instrumento vectoriali delineantur, et instrumentis curvarum levitas vestium et lineae artis picturarum originalium servantur. Impressiones quattuor coloribus efficiuntur, ut studium publicum erga parietinas picturas earumque tutelam foveatur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Yongle Palace Myth Munus Illustrandi victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Yongle Palace Myth Munus Illustrandi rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Yongle Palace Myth Munus Illustrandi necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The frescoes of Yongle Palace in China are made into cartoon figures by computer technology. It is a promising career and bright future to display Yongle Palace culture in a new aesthetic way. The cartoon works include "empress mother", "Emperor Huang Tian", "Queen Mother of the west", "maid" and so on. Cartoon image has found a foothold of design, which is to transform the traditional mural into the image accepted and loved by people.
Dimensions & Packaging: Cartoon figure painting is 127x127cm, 63.5x63.5cm, plane printing.
Tags: Yongle Palace, mural, cartoon, illustration, character, myth.
Production Technology: The cartoon is painted by the vector graphic design software Adobe Illustrator. Bessel tools are widely used to depict the elegant and light feeling of the characters' clothing and the essence of the line drawing art of the Yongle Palace mural. The cartoon is printed in four colors for the promotion of graphic design.
Design Challenge: The line drawing technology of this kind of cartoon painting is not easy, so it is necessary to summarize and sort out the frescoes of Yongle Palace, and grasp the characters' expression and the charm of the line drawing. In particular, to draw traditional mural characters in the form of modern cartoon, we need to transform time and space, which needs to be challenged.
Research: Yongle Palace mural needs publicity and recognition. The cartoon character illustration design is based on the prototype of Yongle Palace mural characters, seizing the verve and body style of the characters, and adopting simplification, exaggeration and decoration techniques to upgrade the characters of Yongle Palace mural. Add crane, lotus, ribbon and other elements to show Chinese "Taoist" art and enhance people's sense of identity.
Inspiration: The inspiration comes from the fresco of Yongle Palace, which is a large-scale fresco art painted in the Yuan Dynasty in Shanxi Province, China. With the development of time, the disappearance of murals in architecture is inevitable. Therefore, the preserved murals of Yongle Palace need to be protected and inherited. The mural characters of Yongle Palace designed with cartoon appeal to people to pay attention to and protect the murals of Yongle Palace.
Project Duration: The project started from March 2019 and finished in September 2019 in Shenyang.
Operation Flow: In the publicity of Yongle Palace, the use of cartoon image is an important part of the publicity. With the aesthetic and hobbies of modern people, people's interest and understanding of Yongle Palace will be enhanced, and the murals of Yongle Palace will be deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Team Members: Design Director:Huo Kai, Illustrator: Wang Yumeng
Image Credits: Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai, 2019.