Argent Imprimariá · 2019
Xicang Market Libre
by Dong Qi
- A' Design Award d'Argent 2019 in Imprimariá
- CLIENT: Local本地
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 32,476
- Verification code E0D1C9BCC1 · Verify this award
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About Xicang Market Libre
Xicang Market es un libre que documenta un mercat carrièr setmanièr a Xi'an, en China. Lo libre enregistra los objèctes utilizats coma paradas, las manièras de presentar las mercandisas, los panèls escriches a la man e la relacion entre las gents e los objèctes. Lo design demòra minimal per tal que lo material siá simplament presentat. Lo libre es devesit en uèch capítols : localizacion, mercat, panèls, paradas, testimoniatges orals, mercandisas, prètz e vendeires. Cada capítol es independent e restaura una part de l'escèna del mercat. Per un capítol, s'es causit un papièr semblable als prospèctes publicitaris que se tròban al mercat.
About the A' Design Award d'Argent
Xicang Market Libre a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent, una reconeissença extraordinàriament prestigiosa acordada a de designs d'ort de gamma, esplendids e impressionants. Los ganhaires de l'Argent son d'òbras terriblament brilhantas e extrèmament creativas que illustran l'experiéncia, lo talent e la finessa excepcionals de lors designers. S'espèra que Xicang Market Libre siá una òbra meravilhosa e de referéncia, notablament professionala e prigondament innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent es una invencion fòrça notabla e admirada, que fa un ben e fa avançar las frontièras de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia. Xicang Market Libre es una creacion immensament envejada que desrevelha de desirs, aduch de sentiments positius e fa néisser l'estonament e l'esmaiment.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Observe the Transitional China from the Disappearing Market in Urban Areas.Xi'an, the ancient city in China, is in a great change. A market like Xicang market, held at the same time and same place every week, preserving all the vivid civil life here,,rarely exists now in a city. The design of the book also well conformed to the creator's intention,simply a presentation.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 185mm x 55mm x 240mm
- Tags
- raw,locally,handwriting,Unmodified,portrait
- Production Technology
- The whole book is divided into eight chapters: location, market, signs, stalls, oral accounts, goods, price and vendors according to the main elements of a local market. Therefore, the idea is to minimize the design and restore the scene of the marketplace (e.g. the supplement part) by every independent chapter. For example, the paper of advertising flyers frequently appeared in Xicang market is the option as the paper of certain chapter of the book to reflect the character of a market by its special texture.
- Design Challenge
- Xicang market was 100 years old and has certainly changed a lot over the 20 years in China,The design of the book also well conformed to the creator’s intention- simply a presentation. The whole book is divided into eight chapters: location, market, signs, stalls, oral accounts, goods, price and vendors according to the main elements of a local market. Therefore, the idea is to minimize the design and restore the scene of the marketplace (e.g. the supplement part) by every independent chapter.
- Research
- Observe the Transitional China from the Disappearing Market in Urban Areas ,Xi’an, the ancient city in China, is in a great change. A market like Xicang market, held at the same time and same place every week, preserving all the vivid civil life here, rarely exists now in a city. People here are unusually vivid, typical Xicang and local.We hope to record and present with this book.
- Inspiration
- The choice of the objects to be used as stalls, the way of displaying, the daily design of the handwritten signs and the relationship between people and objects, are the most prominent features the book want to show. Therefore, the idea is to minimize the design and restore the scene of the marketplace by every independent chapter.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2015 in Xi'an and finished in August 2018 in Xi'an,and was exhibited in Xi'an urban memory museum in October 2018.
- Operation Flow
- Xicang market has held two exhibitions, with books and image record. The vendors and local residents of Xicang Market and the local government were invited to visit.
