The Wild Firmen Identitéit by Chao Xu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award an Eisen in Grafik, Illustratioun a Visuell Kommunikatiounsdesign Competition Category.

EisenGrafik· 2020

The Wild Firmen Identitéit

by Chao Xu

Client: AhnLuh Luxury Resorts and Residences

A' Design Award an Eisen Winner in Grafik Category

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The Design

About The Wild Firmen Identitéit

Dëst ass e Marken Design fir en neie Luxus Resort, uewen um Huangbai Bierg an der Hunan Provënz gebaut. D'Zil vun dësem Projet ass traditionell chinesesch Ästhetesch mat westlecher Einfachheet an Branding Design ze verbannen. D'Designteam huet déi räich Charakteristike vun Déieren a Planzen am Huangbai Bierg extrahéiert an e Kranform Logo mat traditionelle chinesescher Molerei Technik entworf, d'Fieder vu Kranen goufen an en Design Muster vereinfacht. Dëst Basis Muster kann all Zort vun Déieren a Planzen bilden （déi am Bierg existéieren), an huet all Designelementer harmonesch ausgesinn.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award an Eisen

The Wild Firmen Identitéit ass e Gewënner vum A' Design Award an Eisen, enger prestigiéiser Unerkennung, déi un gutt Designe vergi gëtt, déi déi professionell an industriell Ufuerderunge erfëllen, déi vu gutt gestaltene Kreatioune erwaart ginn. Eisen-Gewënner weisen déi grouss Fäegkeet, déi héich Spezialiséierung, dat Expertewëssen an d'kreativ Kapazitéit vun hire Schëpfer. Et gëtt erwaart, datt The Wild Firmen Identitéit eng héich geschätzt, bewonnert a beléifte Kreatioun ass, déi praktesch an innovativ ass. Dëst mam Eisen ausgezeechent Design integréiert déi beschte Praktike vun der Industrie a huet kompetent technesch Eegeschaften, déi mat Know-how an Talent verbonne sinn. The Wild Firmen Identitéit gëtt fir seng Grëndlechkeet respektéiert a ass gestalt, d'Liewensqualitéit ze verbesseren an ze hëllefen, d'Welt zu enger besserer Plaz ze maachen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is a brand design for a new luxury resort, which is built on top of Huangbai mountain. We extracted the rich characteristics of animals and plants in that forest and used the feathers of cranes as a pattern. This basic pattern can form all kinds of animals and plants（which exist in the mountain), by applying same pattern through the entire design making this visual identity unified and harmonious.
Dimensions & Packaging: Business card: 90mm x 50mm
Letterhead: 297mm x 210mm
Greeting card: 148mm x 100mm
Tags: branding design, logo, Chinese style, hotel branding, simple
Production Technology: Using traditional Chinese painting:ink painting to create logo, which is a simple but artistic crane. the final products, e.g. business card, greeting card applied gold stamping on special paper, showing a tastefully low key luxury design.
Design Challenge: As the resort building was designed by architects from western country, whereas the site is in china, we need to combine traditional Chinese aesthetic with Western simplicity into branding design.
Research: Team members visited the site Huangbai mountain for three times, during the site visit, took large amount of site photos including unique plants and animals there. those elements finally be used in later stage design. Meanwhile, we did lots of background research on it culture and history aspects, in order to make the design more meaningful and powerful.
Inspiration: Design team applied traditional Chinese aesthetic feeling meanwhile kept its simplicity to the design. The reason to use the crane as a logo, is associated with the dream life that lots of people who choose to live in mountains desired: living idle lives like the cloud and wild crane, there is also a meaning of artistic conception. Designers got inspired by the rich characteristics of wild animals and plants in Huangbai mountain, therefore came up with different icons to represent wild animal and plants by using the same pattern element.
Project Duration: The project started in Jan 2019 in Hangzhou and finished in April 2019 in Hangzhou.
Team Members: Creative director:Chao Xu
Graphic design:Chao Xu