Serious Little Squid Визуальная идентичность by Youjia Gu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Бронзовая премия A' Design Award in Дизайн графики, иллюстрации и визуальных коммуникаций Competition Category.
БронзоваяГрафика· 2020
Serious Little Squid Визуальная идентичность
by Youjia Gu
Client: MET Creative Brand
Бронзовая премия A' Design Award Winner in Графика Category
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About Serious Little Squid Визуальная идентичность
«Серьёзный маленький кальмар» — визуальная идентичность, созданная для ресторанного бренда. Айдентика построена вокруг персонажа А Чжэна — кальмара, олицетворяющего городских офисных сотрудников. Такие детали, как галстук и косынка, делают персонажа легко узнаваемым. Графическая стилистика отсылает к чёрно-белому немому кино и использует холодный юмор и лаконичные комиксовые сцены. Серия иллюстраций под названием «внутренний театр» показывает повседневную жизнь в большом городе. Цель — сформировать позитивную тональность бренда и тесную связь с молодыми потребителями.
The Recognition
About the Бронзовая премия A' Design Award
Serious Little Squid Визуальная идентичность — лауреат Бронзовой премии A' Design Award, весьма престижного признания, присуждаемого выдающимся проектам, отличающимся творческим подходом, изобретательностью и сообразительностью. Обладатели Бронзовой премии — это в полной мере искусные и поразительно творческие произведения, свидетельствующие об огромном опыте, воображении и находчивости их авторов. Ожидается, что Serious Little Squid Визуальная идентичность станет высокоценимым, вызывающим восхищение и дорогим сердцу объектом, заметно профессиональным и инновационным. Этот проект, получивший Бронзовую премию A' Design Award, воплощает лучшие практики в искусстве, науке, дизайне и технологиях и превосходен вниманием к деталям. Serious Little Squid Визуальная идентичность прекрасно удовлетворяет потребности, затрагивает желания, очаровывает чувства и пробуждает любопытство.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- In this case, the designers create a strong sense of image, pretending to be serious but lively IP image to make consumers have intuitive association, and build a brand tone of "sunshine, positive energy, cheer themselves up". They grasp the popular "mourning" but full of positive energy of the target group in the current society, and try to enlarge the positive and optimistic feeling.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The most representative of black-and-white silent film is Chaplin's series of works, which is funny and ironic. In the design of this case, an inverted expression is extracted, that is, cold humor and hypocrisy. This seemingly silent and less positive state actually expresses some very sunny attitudes.
- Tags
- Visual Identity, Commercial, Restaurant, Modern, Fashion, IP, Small Squid, Sunshine, Positive Energy
- Production Technology
- Designers take spokesman of urban workers as the prototype, and personify the brand to create "A Zheng", a vivid and lovely squid image. In order to highlight the image of "urban life workers", they added details such as neckties and headscarves to make them look in line with the positioning, and at the same time, they are very personalized, vivid and popular.
- Design Challenge
- Through simple and interesting comics and copywriting, and in the name of "inner theater", the life scenes and lifestyle of this generation of struggling young people in big cities are presented in the form of theater, one scene at a time, so as to arouse their resonance and awaken the love to life and ideal pursuit of life hidden in their heart.
- Research
- Party A hopes to become the most popular leading brand of small squid category that really understands what young people know and think. The IP background is set as the spokesman of urban workers, so as to become the communication carrier of the brand's original intention and shorten the distance with consumers.
- Inspiration
- With the rapid development of society, there are countless young people who choose to work in the first tier cities. They desire to have their own time and pursue freedom. Therefore, designers focus on urban office workers who pursue their dreams in big cities, hoping to cheer them up and create a harbor for their hearts through the healing and strong resonance characteristics conveyed by restaurants. So the serious little squid came into being.
- Project Duration
- The project started in February 2019 in Xiamen and finished in September 2019 in Xiamen.
- Operation Flow
- In terms of design techniques, the designers chose the form of black and white silent film as the carrier.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Youjia Gu, 2019.
- Team Members
- Youjia Gu
Yun Liu
Yuchen Wang
Siyu Xu
Yuting Wang
Xin Wei - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
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