YiQi Hanzi Amakarita Yo Kwigisha by Mengyu Cao

YiQi Hanzi Amakarita Yo Kwigisha by Mengyu Cao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza in Uburezi Competition Category.

IfezaUburezi· 2022

YiQi Hanzi Amakarita Yo Kwigisha

by Mengyu Cao

Client: YiQi Hanzi

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza Winner in Uburezi Category

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The Design

About YiQi Hanzi Amakarita Yo Kwigisha

Kwiga Igishinwa birashobora kugaragara cyane. Inyuguti z'igishinwa zisa n'ibishushanyo bigoye kubantu batazi Igishinwa. Flashcards ya YiQi Hanzi ikoresha gutekereza no gushushanya kugirango inyuguti zumvikane kuri buri wese gukwirakwiza umuco wubushinwa nubwiza bwimiterere yabashinwa. Igishushanyo cya flashcards nacyo kirimo ikoranabuhanga. QR code kuri buri karita ijyana abakoresha kuri YiQi Hanzi ikigo cyiga kumurongo kugirango bagure ibikoresho byo kwiga kuri buri nyuguti. Igishushanyo mbonera cyose cyorohereza abantu kwiga no gufata mu mutwe inyuguti.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza

YiQi Hanzi Amakarita Yo Kwigisha ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza, ishimwe ridasanzwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo byo ku rwego rwo hejuru, byiza kandi bikora ku mutima. Abegukanye Ifeza ni ibihangano by'ubuhanga bukomeye kandi bifite guhanga kwinshi, bigaragaza ubuhanga bwimbitse, impano n'ubushishozi bw'ababihanze. YiQi Hanzi Amakarita Yo Kwigisha biteganyijwe ko izaba igihangano cy'icyitegererezo, gifite ubunyamwuga bukomeye n'udushya twimbitse. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Ifeza ni igihangano kizwi kandi gishimwa, gifasha kugura imbibi z'ubuhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga. YiQi Hanzi Amakarita Yo Kwigisha ni igihangano benshi bifuza, gikangura ibyifuzo, gitanga amarangamutima meza kandi gitera igitangaza.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Learn Chinese through creativity. YiQi Hanzi flashcards make Chinese learning fun and engaging.

YiQi Hanzi flashcards use visuals to enhance memory. Characters are visual. Use design thinking and creativity to make characters understandable visually.

YiQi Hanzi flashcards tell the stories & culture through characters. Presenting them on characters with word explanations aside can help people understand fully and learn quickly.

Radicals & components are the keys to learning characters. YiQi Hanzi flashcards tell how different parts play the role with clear visual elements.
Dimensions & Packaging: card size: 9cm*12cm
packaging size: 10.3cm*9.7cm*12.5cm
Tags: #chinesecharacters, #education, #flashcardsdesign, #learnchinese, #language, #education
Production Technology: Physical paper, learning flashcards
Design Challenge: The history and development are lost in the time. Sometimes there is no reference to a character that can be used. I need to think creatively about how to use visuals to form the characters in a way that makes the most sense.
Research: Every character creation is based on research on the history of the character. To reference how a character was created at the beginning, what's the revolution it experienced, how Simplified Chinese changed the forms, and if there are any stories behind a character.
Inspiration: To people who don't know Chinese, Chinese characters always look like complicated drawings. I want to use design thinking and drawings to make the 'character drawings' understandable to everyone to spread Chinese culture and the beauty of Chinese characters. This learning method makes it easy for people to visualize the meaning of the characters to better understand and memorize characters.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2020 and finished in January 2021 in San Francisco.
Operation Flow: There are 140 cards, print double-sided, so a total of 280 characters. Besides the physical flashcards, the QR code on each card connects to the YiQi Hanzi Online Learning Center with more learning resources. Includes words, sentences, videos, writing strokes, and more to help people learn characters easily and holistically.
Team Members: Mengyu Cao