The Zodiac Bokmerke by Wenxian Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award i Jern in Kunst- og kontorrekvisitadesign Competition Category.

JernKunstrekvisita· 2023

The Zodiac Bokmerke

by Wenxian Liu

A' Design Award i Jern Winner in Kunstrekvisita Category

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The Design

About The Zodiac Bokmerke

Zodiac er et sett med bokmerker basert på de tolv dyrene i det kinesiske dyrekretsen. Hvert bokmerke er utformet slik at dyret ser ut til å gå inne i boken. Bokmerkene er laget av rustfritt stål med høy seighet, belagt med 18k gull og ferdigstilt med CNC-gravering med en presisjon på 0,3 mm. Forenklede linjer forener de tolv dyrene samtidig som hver enkelt karakter bevares. Emballasjen arrangerer dyrekretsens illustrasjoner i et sirkulært mønster for å symbolisere fullstendighet. Gull og rødt brukes for å antyde glede og velsignelse.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Jern

The Zodiac Bokmerke er vinner av A' Design Award i Jern, en prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles gode design som oppfyller de profesjonelle og industrielle kravene man forventer av veldesignede skaperverk. Jernvinnere viser stor dyktighet, høy spesialisering, ekspertforståelse og kreativ kapasitet hos skaperne. The Zodiac Bokmerke forventes å være et høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt skaperverk som er praktisk og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Jern, integrerer bransjens beste praksis og har kompetente tekniske egenskaper knyttet til kunnskap og talent. The Zodiac Bokmerke respekteres for sin grundighet og er utformet for å gi forbedringer i livskvalitet som bidrar til å gjøre verden til et bedre sted.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: We redesigned the zodiac illustrations and made them into bookmarks, as if animals were walking inside the book. On the packaging, we use zodiac illustrations to form a circular pattern, which embodies the ecological of Chinese zodiac culture and symbolizes completeness. We also use the Chinese favorite colors: gold and red, symbolize joy and blessing.
Dimensions & Packaging: 303mm*155mm*35mm
Production Technology: The zodiac Bookmark is made of high-toughness stainless steel, electroplated with 18k gold in CNC engraving process.The finest precision can reach 0.3mm.
Design Challenge: The twelve animals are quiet different, like small mice , large cattle,horses and even fictional dragons. To design these animals with different morphological characteristics into a series and make the twelve be unified while keeping their characteristic is the biggest challenge . It has overcome with simplified lines and modern design techniques .
Inspiration: The zodiac, which comes from an ancient Chinese folk philosophy and has been used to this day, is made up of 12 different animals, each year represented by one animal in a 12-year cycle. The zodiac is also a simplified ecology of Chinese, twelve animals have very different personalities and live in harmony with each other.
Book, is the carrier of human knowledge, bookmark, is a small tool for reading, but also the embodiment of the reader's taste.
The illustration is full of Oriental style, let the Oriental wisdom accompany our reading time, but also let the zodiac culture more widely inherited, this is our original design intention.
Project Duration: It took about one year in Shenzhen China

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