Buddha Said 插画系列 by Mengjia Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 平面、插画与视觉传达设计 Competition Category.

铜平面· 2021

Buddha Said 插画系列

by Mengjia Li

Client: Northeastern University

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About Buddha Said 插画系列

《佛说》是一组以敦煌壁画为灵感创作的插画作品。系列从壁画中选取五个经典故事进行重绘,将每个故事中的人物形象加以提炼,并以现代平面设计的风格与场景相融合。取自敦煌壁画的色彩赋予画面宏大而神秘的氛围。插画使用矢量设计软件绘制,以800×800毫米的高分辨率输出印刷。作品旨在将传统与现代设计相结合,让这些壁画故事为更广泛的公众所知。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Buddha Said 插画系列是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Buddha Said 插画系列将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Buddha Said 插画系列出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Through reading and understanding a large number of relevant materials of Dunhuang frescoes, this paper combines traditional frescoes with modern illustration design, explores the integration of tradition and modernity, and thus creates illustration design works with modern design flavor and national characteristics.
Dimensions & Packaging: Printing illustrations:800mm (H) x 800mm (W) (sheet size), Data size:1800mm (H) x 1800mm (W), 300dpi, cmyk.
Tags: Dunhuang, illustration design, mural story, traditional culture, Silk Road
Production Technology: The series of illustrations and expressions are drawn by the illustrator vector design software. It is produced by high level printing and manufacturing technologies to show the details of beautiful and exquisite illustrations.
Design Challenge: The difficulty lies in accurately grasping the characteristics of Dunhuang frescoes, combining modern aesthetics with traditional frescoes, and combining computer technology with traditional crafts to shape modern aesthetic feeling.
Research: This design selects the five most classic stories in Dunhuang frescoes for illustration design. First, the characters in the story are refined and skillfully combined. Then, the colors matched with the charm of Dunhuang are used to highlight the magnificent and mysterious atmosphere of the whole illustration. Moreover, the innovation of this illustration design lies in the integration of Dunhuang frescoes into the illustration design, and the integration of Dunhuang elements in the picture also enhances the unity of the whole design.
Inspiration: At present, Dunhuang Cultural Development Bureau is only limited to re-creating the image of Feixian, and the same classic Dunhuang mural stories have not been well developed and utilized. This design redesigns and creates Buddhist stories in Dunhuang frescoes, so that these classic frescoes are well known by more people, and the art of Dunhuang frescoes is pushed to the public and the world.
Project Duration: Luoyang, the starting point of the Silk Road, is in 2020 .
Operation Flow: This design selects the five most classic stories in Dunhuang frescoes for illustration design. First of all, the understanding of Dunhuang frescoes is reconstructed. Secondly, the characters in the story are refined and combined with the story skillfully. Finally, computer coloring with Dunhuang flavor highlights the magnificent and mysterious atmosphere of illustration as a whole.
Team Members: Art Director: Huo Kai, designer: Li Mengjia
Image Credits: Image #1 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #2 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #3 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #4 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #5 : Li Mengjia, 2020