Gung Ho Primaire Functie: Coverillustratie voor stripboek by Thomas von Kummant is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Zilver in Grafisch, Illustratie en Visuele Communicatie Ontwerp Competition Category.
ZilverGrafisch· 2022
Gung Ho Primaire Functie: Coverillustratie voor stripboek
Client: Thomas von Kummant
A' Design Award in Zilver Winner in Grafisch Category
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The Design
About Gung Ho Primaire Functie: Coverillustratie voor stripboek
Gung Ho is een coverillustratie gemaakt voor de Franse deluxe-editie van de stripreeks Gung Ho. Het kunstwerk vermijdt de getekende zwarte contour die in de meeste strips wordt gebruikt en past een uitgeknipte collagebenadering toe die het beeld helder houdt. Silhouetten worden met kleur behandeld om een expressionistische indruk te creëren die de toon van het verhaal ondersteunt. Het verhaal speelt zich af in een post-apocalyptisch Zuid-Europa waar overleven afhankelijk is van versterkte nederzettingen. Het beeld legt een moment van gevaar, jeugdige moed en vrijgekomen tienerdadrenaline vast. Het digitale kunstwerk is gemaakt met een grafisch tablet.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award in Zilver
Gung Ho Primaire Functie: Coverillustratie voor stripboek is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Zilver, een buitengewoon prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan topontwerpen die prachtig en indrukwekkend zijn. Winnaars in Zilver zijn enorm briljante en uiterst creatieve werken die de uitmuntende expertise, het talent en de scherpzinnigheid van hun ontwerpers illustreren. Gung Ho Primaire Functie: Coverillustratie voor stripboek wordt verwacht een prachtig paradepaardje te zijn dat opmerkelijk professioneel en diepgaand innovatief is. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in Zilver heeft gewonnen, is een hoogst opmerkelijke, bewonderde uitvinding die baat en de grenzen van kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie verlegt. Gung Ho Primaire Functie: Coverillustratie voor stripboek is een zeer benijde creatie die verlangens oproept, positieve gevoelens brengt en verbazing en verwondering doet ontvlammen.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Comic-Cover for the Comic Series Gung Ho.
The design of the comic series is an exceptional style for the French comic market. Without the drawn line, a kind of cut-out collage still tries to preserve the graphic legibility. Silhouettes are treated with colour to create an expressionistic impression, which serves the tone of the story. The synergy of narrative and aesthetics serves only the dramaturgy and the development of the comic. This Cover image captures the moment of released teenage adrenaline. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Edition DELUXE 280mm x 375mm hardcover, 60 pages
- Tags
- Illustration, comic, digital, photoshop, story, book, series, narrative, storytelling, characters
- Production Technology
- Digital artwork for the cover of the french edition of Gung Ho - Court-circuit - Edition DELUXE 2.2, created with Photoshop and Wacom Tablet
- Design Challenge
- The script sets a certain tone with which the story is told. The challenge is to find a style that supports the tone of the story and gives the project uniqueness. When you see an image from the story, it has to be recognisable - that can only be an image from Gung Ho. The German comic market has not been able to develop due to the Second World War and is therefor very small - especially as far as in-house productions are concerned. To get our ambitious 420-page project financed, we had to enter the largest European comic market - the French market. With Edition Paquet we found a partner who supported us very well.
- Research
- Sequential art is older than millennia as we can see on cave paintings. It is later found in antiquity and can be found in the High Middle Ages on the Bayeux Tapestry. With the printing of books, sequential art became known to a wider readership. In the late 19th century, picture sheets were published, just like short comic strips. Picture and word told a short story.
In France and Belgium at the beginning of the 20th century, a new form of comic strip developed - the comic book - in which longer stories were printed in continuation. The comic series was born. This is also where drawing styles developed, such as Ligne claire, whose best-known representative is Herge with his Tintin. What most comics had in common was that legibility was created by a line drawn with black ink. - Inspiration
- The inspiration came from our kids and the question - What if nature stroke back created a new aggressive species? The fictive story is telling happenings in a post apocalyptic south europe, where survival is only possible in fortified cities and settlements. Following the rules is a matter of life and death. Every child knows that. Until he becomes a teenager…
The theme of Gung Ho is on one hand about the destructive side of youth, but also on the other hand its power for renewal. - Project Duration
- The project began in Munich in 2012. The first book was published in France in 2013. The project was completed in January 2021 in Munich with a publication in France in June 2021.
- Operation Flow
- The book was used in the Amiens region of France for classroom discussion and analysis. The aim is to adapt the book into film - animation or life action - or game media.
- Patents
- GUNG HO © von Kummant / von Eckartsberg / Edition Paquet
- Team Members
- artist: Thomas von Kummant
writer: Benjamin von Eckartsberg
editor: Edition Paquet
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