YiQi Hanzi Kata Faafaiaoga by Mengyu Cao

YiQi Hanzi Kata Faafaiaoga by Mengyu Cao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Ario in A'oa'oga Competition Category.

ArioA'oa'oga· 2022

YiQi Hanzi Kata Faafaiaoga

by Mengyu Cao

Client: YiQi Hanzi

A' Design Award Ario Winner in A'oa'oga Category

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The Design

About YiQi Hanzi Kata Faafaiaoga

O le a'oa'oina o le gagana Saina e mafai ona va'aia. O mataitusi Saina e foliga e pei o ni ata lavelave i tagata e le iloa Saina. YiQi Hanzi flashcards e fa'aoga mafaufauga ma ata tusi e fa'amalamalama ai tagata uma e fa'asalalau tu ma aga a Saina ma le matagofie o mata'itusi Saina. O le mamanu o flashcards e aofia ai foi ma tekinolosi. O le QR code i kata ta'itasi e ave ai tagata fa'aoga i le YiQi Hanzi i luga o le initaneti e a'oa'oina ai nofoaga e fa'alautele ai a'oa'oga mo tagata ta'itasi. O le mamanu atoa o le poto masani e faigofie ai mo tagata ona aʻoaʻoina ma tauloto mataitusi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai YiQi Hanzi Kata Faafaiaoga, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina YiQi Hanzi Kata Faafaiaoga e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. YiQi Hanzi Kata Faafaiaoga o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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