The Wild A Identidade Corporativa by Chao Xu

The Wild A Identidade Corporativa by Chao Xu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Ferro in Design Gráfico, Ilustração e Comunicação Visual Competition Category.

FerroGráfico· 2020

The Wild A Identidade Corporativa

by Chao Xu

Client: AhnLuh Luxury Resorts and Residences

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Gráfico Category

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The Design

About The Wild A Identidade Corporativa

Este é um projeto de marca para um novo resort de luxo, construído no topo da montanha Huangbai, na província de Hunan. O objetivo deste projeto é combinar a estética tradicional chinesa com a simplicidade ocidental em design de marca. A equipe de design extraiu as ricas características de animais e plantas na montanha Huangbai e projetou um logotipo em forma de guindaste usando a técnica de pintura tradicional chinesa, a pena de guindastes foi simplificada em um padrão de design. Este padrão básico pode formar todos os tipos de animais e plantas (que existem na montanha), e faz com que todos os elementos de design pareçam harmoniosos.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

The Wild A Identidade Corporativa conquistou o A' Design Award de Ferro, um reconhecimento prestigiado atribuído a bons designs que cumprem os requisitos profissionais e industriais esperados de criações bem concebidas. Os vencedores do Ferro demonstram grande habilidade, elevada especialização, compreensão especializada e capacidade criativa dos seus criadores. Espera-se que The Wild A Identidade Corporativa seja uma criação muito considerada, admirada e estimada, prática e inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as melhores práticas do setor e tem características técnicas competentes associadas a conhecimento especializado e talento. Pela sua minúcia, The Wild A Identidade Corporativa merece respeito e destina-se a proporcionar melhorias na qualidade de vida que ajudam a tornar o mundo num lugar melhor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is a brand design for a new luxury resort, which is built on top of Huangbai mountain. We extracted the rich characteristics of animals and plants in that forest and used the feathers of cranes as a pattern. This basic pattern can form all kinds of animals and plants（which exist in the mountain), by applying same pattern through the entire design making this visual identity unified and harmonious.
Dimensions & Packaging: Business card: 90mm x 50mm
Letterhead: 297mm x 210mm
Greeting card: 148mm x 100mm
Tags: branding design, logo, Chinese style, hotel branding, simple
Production Technology: Using traditional Chinese painting:ink painting to create logo, which is a simple but artistic crane. the final products, e.g. business card, greeting card applied gold stamping on special paper, showing a tastefully low key luxury design.
Design Challenge: As the resort building was designed by architects from western country, whereas the site is in china, we need to combine traditional Chinese aesthetic with Western simplicity into branding design.
Research: Team members visited the site Huangbai mountain for three times, during the site visit, took large amount of site photos including unique plants and animals there. those elements finally be used in later stage design. Meanwhile, we did lots of background research on it culture and history aspects, in order to make the design more meaningful and powerful.
Inspiration: Design team applied traditional Chinese aesthetic feeling meanwhile kept its simplicity to the design. The reason to use the crane as a logo, is associated with the dream life that lots of people who choose to live in mountains desired: living idle lives like the cloud and wild crane, there is also a meaning of artistic conception. Designers got inspired by the rich characteristics of wild animals and plants in Huangbai mountain, therefore came up with different icons to represent wild animal and plants by using the same pattern element.
Project Duration: The project started in Jan 2019 in Hangzhou and finished in April 2019 in Hangzhou.
Team Members: Creative director:Chao Xu
Graphic design:Chao Xu