Speech Bubbie Genus Litterarum by Xu Hanmin

Speech Bubbie Genus Litterarum by Xu Hanmin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Graphica Competition Category.

AesGraphica· 2023

Speech Bubbie Genus Litterarum

by Xu Hanmin

Client: Yi Xiao Jian Da

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Graphica Category

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The Design

About Speech Bubbie Genus Litterarum

Speech Bubbie est genus litterarum ad litteras Latinas et characteres Sinenses conceptum. Bulla sermonis est conventio graphica in colloquiis fabularum pictarum adhibita, et formae litterarum etiam affectum in scriptura significant. Nexus inter haec duo elementa graphica ad novam structuram litterarum et characterum ex forma fabulae pictae ductam perduxit. Ductus in formas generales bullarum sermonis simplificantur, directione ductuum originalium tamen servata, ut legibilitas conservetur. Genus litterarum primum manu depictum est, deinde programmate vectoriali effectum.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Speech Bubbie Genus Litterarum 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 Speech Bubbie Genus Litterarum 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. Speech Bubbie Genus Litterarum necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Inspiration comes from: the text box on the text message on the mobile phone is a dialog box graphic, at the same time, on our social chat software, dialogue voice or text, there are dialog box graphics, and the dialogue on the comics we see is also composed of dialog box graphics of. In this way, the dialog graphics are combined with the font strokes
Dimensions & Packaging: Variable size
Tags: Graphic text, Chinese character font design, dialog font
Production Technology: Adobe Illustrator/ hand drawn draft
Design Challenge: To integrate figurative graphics into font strokes, first of all, we must achieve recognition, and second, we must convey the conceptual graphics to be designed.
Research: Speech Bubbie is a graphic convention used most commonly in manga books during dialogues. Similarly,fonts connote emotions in writing.Realising the connection between these two graphic elements,designers borrowed the form from comic books to reformulate the structure of alphabets and Chinese characters. Strokes are simplified into generic forms of speech bubbles while still following the direction of the original strokes,therefore retaining the readability of the character.
Inspiration: Speech Bubbie is a graphic convention used most commonly in manga books during dialogues. Similarly,fonts connote emotions in writing.Realising the connection between these two graphic elements,designers borrowed the form from comic books to reformulate the structure of alphabets and Chinese characters. Strokes are simplified into generic forms of speech bubbles while still following the direction of the original strokes,therefore retaining the readability of the character.
Project Duration: The project started in Shenyang in 2012 and completed in Shenzhen in 2021
Operation Flow: Dialog graphics that appear from mobile phone text messages/social software chats. As well as comic books, people communicate with each other, and dialog graphics also appear.
Patents: Apply for copyright protection
Team Members: xu hanmin
Image Credits: xu hanmin