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Tabineko Illustration O Calendário De Ilustração by Toshinori Mori

Tabineko Illustration O Calendário De Ilustração by Toshinori Mori is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design Gráfico, Ilustração e Comunicação Visual Competition Category.


BronzeGráfico· 2020

Tabineko Illustration O Calendário De Ilustração

by Toshinori Mori

Client: Toshinori Mori

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Gráfico Category

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The Design

About Tabineko Illustration O Calendário De Ilustração

Esta série de ilustrações foi desenhada por um ilustrador japonês, Toshinori Mori, para um calendário. Os gatos viajando são desenhados com cores suaves e toques simples no contexto das quatro estações do Japão. As ilustrações são desenhadas em Adobe Illustrator. Embora seja uma ilustração digital, ela foi projetada para dar uma sensação natural, adicionando finas irregularidades aos contornos e adicionando uma textura como restos de papel na superfície.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Tabineko Illustration O Calendário De Ilustração conquistou o A' Design Award de Bronze, um reconhecimento altamente prestigiado atribuído a designs notáveis que se distinguem pela criatividade, engenho e perspicácia. Os vencedores do Bronze são artefactos amplamente habilidosos e surpreendentemente criativos que comprovam a vasta experiência, imaginação e capacidade de iniciativa dos seus designers. Espera-se que Tabineko Illustration O Calendário De Ilustração seja um objeto muito considerado, admirado e estimado, notavelmente profissional e inovador. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Bronze incorpora as melhores práticas em arte, ciência, design e tecnologia e é excelente pela sua atenção ao detalhe. Tabineko Illustration O Calendário De Ilustração satisfaz esplendidamente necessidades, toca desejos, encanta sentimentos e desperta curiosidade.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Tabineko illustration calendar allows cats to travel in an ordinary and ubiquitous landscape. Viewers are more likely to empathize as if their cat is traveling freely in the neighborhood. In addition, flowers, mountain scenery, roadside plants, weather, etc. are drawn according to the season, so viewers can feel the wind of each season in the house
Dimensions & Packaging
Wall Calendar :18cm x 25cm (B5) Art Poster:A4.A3.A2
Tags
Tabineko, Toshinori Mori, Illustration, Japan, Japanese, Cat, Landscape, Art, travel, Happiness
Production Technology
Calendars are handmade.
The designer cuts the output from the printer by month and attaches it to the backing paper with a stopper. The prints, adjusted and output many times until the designer is satisfied, entertain the viewer with vivid colors.
The material of the calendar (including the stopper) is made of paper and can be discarded as burning garbage.In addition to being usable as a wall calendar, it can also be used as a desk calendar by standing on the attached stand.
Design Challenge
Because it is digital, what you print is what you actually see.
So I try to adjust the saturation and color many times to get the desired color. I sometimes print dozens of sheets until I get the color I like.
The problem was that the ink on my printer (a very old printer) was out of print, and I couldn't get the same color.
New printers have low saturation and do not produce beautiful colors.
Research
Digital illustration using Adobe Illustrator.
I take a picture of my favorite scenery on a bicycle walk and draw it based on it.
Cats model their own cats as models.
Because it is for calendars, colors and plants are selected to give the seasonal feeling of each month.
In addition, I am thinking about the combination of colors that can reproduce the images of the beautiful four seasons I felt.
In order to eliminate digital slipperiness, paper shading is added.
Inspiration
I like riding a bicycle through the four seasons. When I decided to make a calendar, I decided to make an illustration of the landscape I saw on a bicycle. However, I thought that the landscape alone was a bit lonely, so I added the cat I had at that time to the landscape.
The result is the "Tabneko" illustration series.
Project Duration
The illustration series was first exhibited at a group exhibition held in Tokyo, Japan in 2011, and has been produced continuously at my home in Nagaoka, Japan until March 2020.
Operation Flow
Postcards, calendars, art posters, etc. are sold at marketplaces such as Etsy, and are sold at private exhibition venues in Tokyo and Nagaoka using Tabineko illustrations.
Patents
©Toshinori Mori 2020
Team Members
Me alone
Image Credits
Image #1: Illustrator Toshinori Mori, Green wind, 2015.
Image #2: Illustrator Toshinori Mori, Hanami at the station, 2014.
Image #3: Illustrator Toshinori Mori, Snow sake brewery, 2020.
Image #4: Illustrator Toshinori Mori, Autumn color patchwork, 2018.
Image #5: Illustrator Toshinori Mori, Christmas song, 2018.

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