Zodiacville Runners Ilustrasi Buku Barudak by Juyeon Park

Zodiacville Runners Ilustrasi Buku Barudak by Juyeon Park is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Perunggu in Citak Competition Category.

PerungguCitak· 2021

Zodiacville Runners Ilustrasi Buku Barudak

by Juyeon Park

Client: Karandashi

A' Design Award Perunggu Winner in Citak Category

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The Design

About Zodiacville Runners Ilustrasi Buku Barudak

Zodiacville Runners téh dongéng barudak nu diilustrasikeun ngeunaan sasatoan Zodiacville, nu ngiluan festival lumpat nu diayakeun ku Raja Naga. Ilustrasina ngagabungkeun ciri lukisan minhwa tradisional Korea jeung gaya pointillism digital. Loba titik lemes nu disusun hiji-hiji, kailhamkeun ku téknik back-painting wétan. Bukuna ukuranana 260 kali 260 milimeter sarta boga pojok buleud pikeun kaamanan. Bagian hiji nyampakkeun carita pikeun barudak, sedengkeun bagian dua nawiskeun pituduh diajar jeung matéri tambahan pikeun para guru.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perunggu

Zodiacville Runners Ilustrasi Buku Barudak mangrupa juara A' Design Award Perunggu, pangakuan anu pohara bergengsi anu dipasihkeun ka desain unggul anu dicirikeun ku kréativitas, kacerdikan jeung kawaspadaan. Para juara Perunggu téh artéfak anu lobaan kaahlian jeung kréatif pisan anu ngabuktikeun pangalaman anu lega, imajinasi jeung kacerdasan para désainerna. Zodiacville Runners Ilustrasi Buku Barudak diharepkeun jadi objék anu dihargaan, dikagumi jeung dipikanyaah anu profésional jeung inovatif. Desain juara A' Design Award Perunggu ieu ngalebetkeun prakték pangalusna dina seni, élmu, desain jeung téknologi, sarta unggul dina perhatian kana détail. Zodiacville Runners Ilustrasi Buku Barudak minuhan kabutuhan kalayan éndah, nyentuh kahayang, nyenangkeun rasa, jeung narik rasa panasaran.

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