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Let Parents Stay Lettertype by Yu Chen

Let Parents Stay Lettertype by Yu Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Brons in Grafisch, Illustratie en Visuele Communicatie Ontwerp Competition Category.


BronsGrafisch· 2021

Let Parents Stay Lettertype

by Yu Chen

Client: Hubei University of Technology

A' Design Award in Brons Winner in Grafisch Category

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The Design

About Let Parents Stay Lettertype

Let Parents Stay is een lettertype gebaseerd op traditioneel Han-borduurwerk, ontwikkeld om een door armoede getroffen dorp te ondersteunen. Jinling Village is de thuisbasis van meer dan tweeduizend kinderen die zijn achtergelaten door werkende ouders, en veel inwoners zijn bedreven in Han-borduurwerk. Lokale borduurproducten verkochten slecht omdat de patronen honderd jaar lang nauwelijks waren veranderd. Klassieke borduurelementen werden geabstraheerd en gereconstrueerd tot moderne lettervormen, die lokale borduursters met de hand stikken. Het doel is om inkomen te genereren en het vakmanschap door te geven in een moderne visuele taal.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Brons

Let Parents Stay Lettertype is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Brons, een hoogst prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan uitstekende ontwerpen die zich onderscheiden door creativiteit, vindingrijkheid en scherpzinnigheid. Winnaars in Brons zijn ruimschoots vaardige en opvallend creatieve artefacten die de grote ervaring, verbeelding en het vernuft van hun ontwerpers bevestigen. Let Parents Stay Lettertype wordt verwacht een hooggewaardeerd, bewonderd en gekoesterd object te zijn dat opmerkelijk professioneel en innovatief is. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in Brons heeft gewonnen, verwerkt de beste praktijken in kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie en is uitstekend door zijn aandacht voor detail. Let Parents Stay Lettertype bevredigt schitterend behoeften, raakt verlangens, charmeert gevoelens en spreekt de nieuwsgierigheid aan.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Jinling Village is a poverty-stricken village with More than 2,000 “left-behind” children. When the designer got there, he was surprised to find that all the local people had mastered certain Han Embroidery skills, but their product not sell well because of the old fashion style. So he worked with the Hubei Han Embroidery Association to help revive the local Han Embroidery culture.
Dimensions & Packaging
Han Embroidery
Tags
Han Embroidery, Embroidery, Typeface, Pattern, Visual
Production Technology
Han Embroidery
Design Challenge
Here is a breakdown of several classic elements from traditional Chinese embroidery patterns. They are abstracted according to modern aesthetics, to reconstruct classic elements, bring out the culture hidden behind the patterns, to master the unchangeable pattern combinations of traditional Chinese embroidery, and produce a brand-new visual language. Creating a typeface composed of extracted Han Embroidery elements and ask the local poverty-stricken embroidery workers to embroider the letters of this font through the techniques of Han Embroidery.
Research
Like most handicrafts, Han embroidery has several problems, for example, a long production cycle, a long time cost, low economic benefit, and poor quality. Also, the traditional Han Embroidery patterns have undergone little to no innovation over the past hundred years, so they can’t meet standards of the modern aesthetic, resulting in low consumer recognition.
Inspiration
In addition to two years of commercial operations, the designer has created a modern typeface, on a trial basis, by extracting the elements of traditional embroidery, deconstructing their texture, and the traditional Jing-Chu Culture, he promoted the inheritance of the old embroidery on the verge of extinction in a modern aesthetic manner, Inheriting tradition and carry on this embroidery craft that is on the verge of extinction by a new typeface, so as to pass down the craft in a modern language.
Patents
Yu Chen
Team Members
Yu Chen
Xin Wang
Yongshan Zhu
Die Hu
Robin Liu
Shan Li
Yi Gu
Meng Zhu
Sailan Ding
Image Credits
Yu Chen

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