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Xicang Market Książka by Dong Qi

Xicang Market Książka by Dong Qi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 Srebrna Nagroda A' Design Award in Druk Competition Category.


SrebrnaDruk· 2019

Xicang Market Książka

by Dong Qi

Client: Local本地

Srebrna Nagroda A' Design Award Winner in Druk Category

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The Design

About Xicang Market Książka

Xicang Market to książka dokumentująca cotygodniowy targ uliczny w Xi'an w Chinach. Publikacja rejestruje przedmioty wykorzystywane jako stragany, sposoby prezentacji towarów, ręcznie pisane szyldy oraz relacje między ludźmi a przedmiotami. Projekt utrzymano w minimalistycznej formie, aby materiał został przedstawiony w prosty sposób. Książka podzielona jest na osiem rozdziałów: lokalizacja, targ, szyldy, stragany, relacje ustne, towary, ceny i sprzedawcy. Każdy rozdział jest niezależny i odtwarza część scenerii targu. Do jednego z rozdziałów wybrano papier przypominający ulotki reklamowe spotykane na targu.

The Recognition

About the Srebrna Nagroda A' Design Award

Xicang Market Książka to laureat Srebrnej Nagrody A' Design Award, niezwykle prestiżowego wyróżnienia przyznawanego przepięknym, imponującym projektom z najwyższej półki. Laureaci Srebrnej Nagrody to niezwykle błyskotliwe i wyjątkowo twórcze dzieła, które ukazują wybitną wiedzę, talent i przenikliwość ich twórców. Xicang Market Książka ma być wspaniałym, reprezentacyjnym dziełem, które jest niezwykle profesjonalne i głęboko innowacyjne. Ten projekt nagrodzony Srebrną Nagrodą A' Design Award to bardzo godny uwagi, podziwiany wynalazek, który przynosi korzyści i przesuwa granice sztuki, nauki, designu i technologii. Xicang Market Książka to dzieło, któremu wielu zazdrości, które budzi pragnienia, wprowadza pozytywne uczucia oraz wzbudza zdumienie i zachwyt.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

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.
Team Members
Song Qun,Geng Nannan,Tian Yuan,Sun Mingjia,Zhao Yanpeng,Sun Quncui,Guo Xin,Cheng Jiayuan,Ding Rui,Chen Gang,Zhao Shuang

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