Dragon Alley Design de Identitate de Brand by Tian Liu and Jiayi Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronz in Design Grafic Competition Category.

BronzGrafică· 2021

Dragon Alley Design de Identitate de Brand

by Tian Liu and Jiayi Chen

Client: Evil Design Studio

A' Design Award de Bronz Winner in Grafică Category

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The Design

About Dragon Alley Design de Identitate de Brand

Dragon Alley este un design de identitate de brand creat pentru un restaurant de hot pot și o cameră de ceai alăturată. Identitatea este construită pe ideea de dualism inspirată din mitologia chineză. Identitatea restaurantului exprimă eliberarea printr-un motiv de fulger tunător, un fundal negru ca cerneala și forme de litere viguroase. Identitatea camerei de ceai exprimă reținere printr-un motiv de nori străpunși, o tonalitate naturală de hârtie și forme mai blânde. Accente aurii graduale leagă cele două identități. Aplicațiile includ cărți de vizită, meniuri, postere, ambalaje și veselă.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronz

Dragon Alley Design de Identitate de Brand a câștigat A' Design Award de Bronz, o recunoaștere extrem de prestigioasă acordată designurilor remarcabile care se disting prin creativitate, ingeniozitate și istețime. Câștigătorii Bronzului sunt artefacte din plin pricepute și izbitor de creative, care atestă experiența vastă, imaginația și resursele designerilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Dragon Alley Design de Identitate de Brand să fie un obiect foarte apreciat, admirat și prețuit, remarcabil de profesionist și inovator. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Bronz încorporează cele mai bune practici din artă, știință, design și tehnologie și este excelent prin atenția la detalii. Dragon Alley Design de Identitate de Brand satisface splendid nevoile, atinge dorințele, vrăjește sentimentele și stârnește curiozitatea.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Based on the brand attributes of the spirit of dualism and Chinese mythology, we use it in the entire brand design process. In terms of font identification, it conveys such feelings at intercross and interlard to each other mutually. In terms of design elements, the main elements are "Crack of Thunder"in Dragon Alley and "Burst Through Clouds" in Dragon Alley Inner, the former is vigorous, while the latter is gentle. In terms of color, ink color is used as the main background color in Dragon Alley, while natural paper color as the main background color in Dragon Alley Inner, with gradual change of gold as the element.
Dimensions & Packaging: Business card:99mm*50mm,
Bag:293mm*136mm,
Folder:480mm*310mm,
Menu:136mm*293mm,
Menu cover:250mm*140mm,
Poster:A2,
Dinner plate:diameter: 200mm,
Self-heating hot pot: 35mm*30mm*25mm,
Tea Caddy:105mm*105mm*150mm,
Oil tank:diameter 40mm*50mm,
Scarf:300mm*300mm
Tags: VIS, Branding, Visual Communication, Type Design, Graphic Design, Chinese mythology, Dragon, Hot pot, Tea
Production Technology: In terms of design, the software we mainly use are Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effect and Cinema 4D.

Further more, in the later material production, it uses stamping technology, gravure printing technology, spot color printing and so on, in order to present the brand vision perfectly. In addition, there needs to be special requirements for its printing materials.
Design Challenge: During the project. We have studied the various historical periods of China from ancient times to modern times. How to convert Chinese mythological information into usable font design, Graphic design and pattern design are the most important issues.

At the same time, how to balance the contradictory and fusion relationship between Dragon Alley and Dragon Alley Inner is also our main task.
Finally, how to integrate the concept of dragon throughout the brand design is also a problem we need to solve.
Research: First of all, for a new brand, we need to let it have a complete brand story and a deep brand spirit. For business purposes, we need to make consumers recognize the brand, and based on brand value, we need our designers to create meaningful brand content. We have created a complete mythological worldview for Dragon Alley and Dragon Alley Inner, so that the brand has complete story content and visual symbols from beginning to end.

Relying on this complete set of brand visual system and story system, the brand can have a unified way of communication in terms of visual perception, operation and marketing.
Inspiration: We received the project that needed to make the brand design of Dragon Alley Hot Pot and Dragon Alley Inner Tea Room for our client. Dragon Alley has main feature of lively hot pot restaurant, and on the contrary, Dragon Alley Inner corresponds to people's leisure tea time after meals. Chinese living alleys have two special attributes of street life. Based on the spatial differences between the two, the project design seeks to create a sense of contradiction and integration of balance, namely dualism. Emotionally, Dragon Alley represents release, while Dragon Alley Inner immersed in restraint.
Project Duration: The project began in 2019 in Milan, the overall visual design at the end of May 2020, and the project eventually landed in Chengdu China.
Operation Flow: The project aims to make a different experience in the Dragon Alley Restaurant by unique brand visual design.
Team Members: Designer: Tian Liu, Jiayi Chen, Aowen Zhou, Fan Xiao
Image Credits: Image#1: Designer Jiayi Chen, 2019,
Image#2: Designer Liu Tian, 2019.