Gung Ho 漫画封面插画 by Thomas von Kummant is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 平面、插画与视觉传达设计 Competition Category.

银平面· 2022

Gung Ho 漫画封面插画

by Thomas von Kummant

Client: Thomas von Kummant

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About Gung Ho 漫画封面插画

《Gung Ho》是为法国豪华版漫画系列《Gung Ho》创作的封面插画。作品摒弃了大多数漫画所采用的黑色描边线条,转而运用剪纸拼贴的手法,使画面保持清晰明快。剪影以色彩加以处理,营造出富有表现主义意味的视觉印象,呼应故事的整体基调。故事发生在后末世时代的南欧,人们的生存依赖于设防的聚居地。画面捕捉了危险降临的瞬间、年轻人的勇气以及青春期迸发的肾上腺素。该数字插画作品使用数位板绘制完成。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Gung Ho 漫画封面插画是 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Gung Ho 漫画封面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。Gung Ho 漫画封面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: Comic-Cover for the Comic Series Gung Ho.
The design of the comic series is an exceptional style for the French comic market. Without the drawn line, a kind of cut-out collage still tries to preserve the graphic legibility. Silhouettes are treated with colour to create an expressionistic impression, which serves the tone of the story. The synergy of narrative and aesthetics serves only the dramaturgy and the development of the comic. This Cover image captures the moment of released teenage adrenaline.
Dimensions & Packaging: Edition DELUXE 280mm x 375mm hardcover, 60 pages
Tags: Illustration, comic, digital, photoshop, story, book, series, narrative, storytelling, characters
Production Technology: Digital artwork for the cover of the french edition of Gung Ho - Court-circuit - Edition DELUXE 2.2, created with Photoshop and Wacom Tablet
Design Challenge: The script sets a certain tone with which the story is told. The challenge is to find a style that supports the tone of the story and gives the project uniqueness. When you see an image from the story, it has to be recognisable - that can only be an image from Gung Ho. The German comic market has not been able to develop due to the Second World War and is therefor very small - especially as far as in-house productions are concerned. To get our ambitious 420-page project financed, we had to enter the largest European comic market - the French market. With Edition Paquet we found a partner who supported us very well.
Research: Sequential art is older than millennia as we can see on cave paintings. It is later found in antiquity and can be found in the High Middle Ages on the Bayeux Tapestry. With the printing of books, sequential art became known to a wider readership. In the late 19th century, picture sheets were published, just like short comic strips. Picture and word told a short story.
In France and Belgium at the beginning of the 20th century, a new form of comic strip developed - the comic book - in which longer stories were printed in continuation. The comic series was born. This is also where drawing styles developed, such as Ligne claire, whose best-known representative is Herge with his Tintin. What most comics had in common was that legibility was created by a line drawn with black ink.
Inspiration: The inspiration came from our kids and the question - What if nature stroke back created a new aggressive species? The fictive story is telling happenings in a post apocalyptic south europe, where survival is only possible in fortified cities and settlements. Following the rules is a matter of life and death. Every child knows that. Until he becomes a teenager…
The theme of Gung Ho is on one hand about the destructive side of youth, but also on the other hand its power for renewal.
Project Duration: The project began in Munich in 2012. The first book was published in France in 2013. The project was completed in January 2021 in Munich with a publication in France in June 2021.
Operation Flow: The book was used in the Amiens region of France for classroom discussion and analysis. The aim is to adapt the book into film - animation or life action - or game media.
Team Members: artist: Thomas von Kummant
writer: Benjamin von Eckartsberg
editor: Edition Paquet