Save Calendar 日历插画 by Mengjia Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 银奖 in 平面、插画与视觉传达设计 Competition Category.

银平面· 2021

Save Calendar 日历插画

by Mengjia Li

Client: Northeastern University

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About Save Calendar 日历插画

《节约日历》是一组以节约粮食为主题创作的日历插画。插画描绘了农田在春、夏、秋、冬四季中的景象,色彩随季节变换,使四个时段易于区分。中式风格的对称构图赋予画面现代感。每张画面顶部标注月份与季节信息。作品以电脑软件绘制,印刷尺寸为800毫米×800毫米。该系列展现了农民的辛勤劳作,提醒人们珍惜粮食。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Save Calendar 日历插画是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Save Calendar 日历插画将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Save Calendar 日历插画是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: By showing the changes of the four seasons in the field, combining the field scenery with the calendar modeling, exploring the Chinese fashion and charm, thus creating 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: Economy, field, seasons change, illustration design, Chinese style
Production Technology: Draw a series of illustrations and expressions by computer software. It is produced by high-level printing and manufacturing technology to show the details of beautiful and exquisite illustrations.
Design Challenge: The difficulty lies in accurately grasping the characteristics of the four seasons in the field, combining the scenery of the four seasons with the color change, and accurately distinguishing the four seasons by color, so as to shape the modern aesthetic feeling.
Research: Starting from the four seasons of the field, it is depicted by the expression technique of national tide style. Taking the changes of the fields in spring, summer, autumn and winter as the breakthrough point, the gifts of the fields to people are reflected through the pictures. The month and season information is added at the top of the screen to further highlight the theme of frugal calendar and remind people to cherish food.
Inspiration: It is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation to practise economy and oppose waste. However, with the development of the era of consumer economy, waste phenomena emerge one after another. Starting from saving food, this set of works reflects the hard work of farmers by showing the four seasons of the field, so as to awaken people's gratitude for food.
Project Duration: In Shenyang, a major agricultural product producing province, in 2020 .
Operation Flow: This design takes the changes of the four seasons of the field as the breakthrough point to create a series of illustrations. The symmetrical composition with strong Chinese flavor enhances the visual impact of the picture and attracts people's aesthetic interest with high aesthetic effect.
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