Zodiacville Runners Igishushanyo cy'Ibitabo by'Abana by Juyeon Park

Zodiacville Runners Igishushanyo cy'Ibitabo by'Abana by Juyeon Park is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze in Inyandiko Zisohoka Competition Category.

BuronzeInyandiko Zisohoka· 2021

Zodiacville Runners Igishushanyo cy'Ibitabo by'Abana

by Juyeon Park

Client: Karandashi

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze Winner in Inyandiko Zisohoka Category

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The Design

About Zodiacville Runners Igishushanyo cy'Ibitabo by'Abana

Zodiacville Runners ni umugani w'abana ufite amashusho, uvuga ibyerekeye inyamaswa zo muri Zodiacville, zifatanya mu muhango w'imbaraga wo kwiruka utegurwa na Umwami w'Igisimba (Dragon King). Amashusho asanganywe imico ya gakondo y'ubuhanzi bw'Igikorea buzwi nka minhwa, ahujwe n'uburyo bwa none bwa dogitale bwitwa pointillism. Utudomo tw'ubururu twinshi twashyizwe hejuru y'ubundi buhoro buhoro, byahumekewe n'uburyo bwo gushushanya inyuma bukoreshwa mu Burasirazuba. Igitabo kigizwe n'uburebure n'ubugari bwa milimetero 260 kuri 260, gifite impembe zizengurutse kugira ngo kibe cyizewe ku bana. Igice cya mbere kigaragaza inkuru ku bana, naho igice cya kabiri gitanga amabwiriza yo kwiga hamwe n'inyandiko zunganira abarimu.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze

Zodiacville Runners Igishushanyo cy'Ibitabo by'Abana ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze, ishimwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo by'indashyikirwa birangwa no guhanga, ubwenge n'ubushishozi. Abegukanye Buronze ni ibihangano bifite ubuhanga bwinshi kandi bihanga cyane, bishimangira uburambe, ubwenge n'ubushobozi bw'ababihanze. Zodiacville Runners Igishushanyo cy'Ibitabo by'Abana biteganyijwe ko izaba ikintu cyubahwa, gishimwa kandi gikundwa, gifite ubunyamwuga n'udushya. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Buronze gikoresha uburyo bwiza mu buhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga kandi kirarenze mu gutaha ku tuntu duto. Zodiacville Runners Igishushanyo cy'Ibitabo by'Abana ishimisha ibyo dukeneye, ikora ku byifuzo byacu, itwara amarangamutima yacu kandi ikurura amatsiko yacu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This project is an experimental mixture of traditional Korean 'minhwa' attributes, fable narratives passed from mouth to mouth, and illustrator's own digital pointillism painting styles. Accordingly, folkish episodes of zodiacville animals are based on the humorous and joyful sentiment of the festival. Furthermore, numerous dilute dots were blended layer by layer, inspired by the oriental back-painting technique.
Dimensions & Packaging: 260mm X 260mm, Rounding post-processing to prevent children from cutting their hands on a book
Tags: Illustration, Fairy Tale, Pointillism, Zodiac
Production Technology: Layering hard-type dots one by one, the illustrator materialized the pointillism in a digital drawing environment.
Design Challenge: There were concerns that humorous expressions could convey distorted visual messages to growing children, as this book was planned to be used in educational sites. Therefore, the contents were continuously consulted by professional elementary teachers and volunteers from youth institutions. Accordingly, the illustrations have undergone modifications to prevent expressing certain races or minority classes in negative stereotypes.
Research: The project is based on anatomical research to represent detailed animal characters that fit the cognitive ability of shapes of teenage children. In advance, the actual bones and muscle structures of the animals in the book were analyzed in detail. After that, the silhouettes were organically simplified and the deformation technique was applied to give character traits.
Inspiration: This is a children's fairy tale about Zodiacville's animals participated in the running festival hosted by the Dragon King. The illustrator and writer enriched episodes with ideas from several workshops in the plot conception stage. For example, a four-character idiom, "Monkeys and dogs don't get along well", was naturally included in the episode.
Project Duration: The duration of the project is from October 2018 to February 2019. The project was mainly carried out in South Korea. Later, other countries where the books are planned to be distributed are Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine.
Operation Flow: The book is divided into Part1 for children and Part 2 for educators. Educators organize classes by referring to learning guides and supplementary materials in Part2, helping children understand contents in Part1. Educators use illustrations and Russian hint texts to encourage children to learn Korean and Korean culture naturally. Furthermore, children infer the situation with illustrations and learn in-depth on what the yellow-highlighted keywords mean in Korean.
Team Members: Juyeon Park
Image Credits: Juyeon Park, 2019