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YiQi Hanzi Leskaarten by Mengyu Cao

YiQi Hanzi Leskaarten by Mengyu Cao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Zilver in Onderwijs, Leermiddelen en Trainingsinhoud Ontwerp Competition Category.


ZilverOnderwijs· 2022

YiQi Hanzi Leskaarten

by Mengyu Cao

Client: YiQi Hanzi

A' Design Award in Zilver Winner in Onderwijs Category

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The Design

About YiQi Hanzi Leskaarten

Chinees leren kan heel visueel zijn. Chinese karakters zien eruit als ingewikkelde tekeningen voor mensen die geen Chinees kennen. YiQi Hanzi-flashcards maken gebruik van ontwerpdenken en tekenen om de karakters voor iedereen begrijpelijk te maken en zo de Chinese cultuur en de schoonheid van Chinese karakters te verspreiden. Het ontwerp van de flashcards bevat ook technologie. De QR-code op elke kaart brengt gebruikers naar het YiQi Hanzi online leercentrum om de leermiddelen voor elk personage uit te breiden. Het hele ontwerp van de ervaring maakt het gemakkelijk voor mensen om karakters te leren en te onthouden.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Zilver

YiQi Hanzi Leskaarten 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. YiQi Hanzi Leskaarten 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. YiQi Hanzi Leskaarten is een zeer benijde creatie die verlangens oproept, positieve gevoelens brengt en verbazing en verwondering doet ontvlammen.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Learn Chinese through creativity. YiQi Hanzi flashcards make Chinese learning fun and engaging.

YiQi Hanzi flashcards use visuals to enhance memory. Characters are visual. Use design thinking and creativity to make characters understandable visually.

YiQi Hanzi flashcards tell the stories & culture through characters. Presenting them on characters with word explanations aside can help people understand fully and learn quickly.

Radicals & components are the keys to learning characters. YiQi Hanzi flashcards tell how different parts play the role with clear visual elements.
Dimensions & Packaging
card size: 9cm*12cm
packaging size: 10.3cm*9.7cm*12.5cm
Tags
#chinesecharacters, #education, #flashcardsdesign, #learnchinese, #language, #education
Production Technology
Physical paper, learning flashcards
Design Challenge
The history and development are lost in the time. Sometimes there is no reference to a character that can be used. I need to think creatively about how to use visuals to form the characters in a way that makes the most sense.
Research
Every character creation is based on research on the history of the character. To reference how a character was created at the beginning, what's the revolution it experienced, how Simplified Chinese changed the forms, and if there are any stories behind a character.
Inspiration
To people who don't know Chinese, Chinese characters always look like complicated drawings. I want to use design thinking and drawings to make the 'character drawings' understandable to everyone to spread Chinese culture and the beauty of Chinese characters. This learning method makes it easy for people to visualize the meaning of the characters to better understand and memorize characters.
Project Duration
The project started in April 2020 and finished in January 2021 in San Francisco.
Operation Flow
There are 140 cards, print double-sided, so a total of 280 characters. Besides the physical flashcards, the QR code on each card connects to the YiQi Hanzi Online Learning Center with more learning resources. Includes words, sentences, videos, writing strokes, and more to help people learn characters easily and holistically.
Team Members
Mengyu Cao

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