Journey To Lijiang 插画系列 by Jijing Ju is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 平面、插画与视觉传达设计 Competition Category.

铁平面· 2024

Journey To Lijiang 插画系列

by Jijing Ju

Client: Northeastern University of China

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About Journey To Lijiang 插画系列

《丽江之旅》是一组以中国丽江为主题的插画作品。作品以当地俗称"瓦猫"的瓦上猫形象作为主要视觉元素。瓦猫是极具地域特色的文化符号,在画面中化身向导,引领观者领略丽江的自然风光与民族传统。设计将传统文化符号加以抽象提炼,并以现代视觉语言重新演绎。整个系列借助矢量设计软件绘制完成,并采用高品质印刷工艺呈现,旨在推动本土文化的传播认知与保护传承。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Journey To Lijiang 插画系列是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Journey To Lijiang 插画系列将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Journey To Lijiang 插画系列因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: This group of illustrations cleverly uses the image of a tile cat as the visual focus, closely connected to multiculturalism, creating a unique and emotional atmosphere, showcasing the magnificent natural relics and profound ethnic charm of Lijiang to the audience. Wa Mao not only serves as an emotional guide, but also carries the essence of Lijiang's traditional culture, and presents it in a modern aesthetic way, injecting new era connotations into Lijiang's humanities and natural culture.
Dimensions & Packaging: 3600 x 3600 pixels, 300dpi, RGB.
Tags: Cultural symbol, the Old Town of Lijiang, illustration, IP image, national style illustration
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 the abstract extraction and reorganization of Lijiang cultural symbols, combined with modern popular design trends and technological means through emotional interactive experience forms for dissemination, so as to keep up with the trend of the times, make progress in visual aesthetics, cultural inheritance, and form innovation, retain traditional charm, and keep up with the pace of aesthetic appreciation of the times.
Research: Lijiang, as a sacred land with many world cultural heritage sites, records the long history of human civilization development. Its unique geographical location, ancient town and district civilization, and natural scenery have nurtured Lijiang's unique material cultural heritage; The multi-ethnic environment and the skills passed down from generation to generation have also preserved rich intangible cultural characteristics for us, forming its unique cultural genes that should be protected and inherited, so that its culture does not disappear under the wave of commercial development and modern urbanization.
Inspiration: Using the cultural symbol of Lijiang's intangible cultural heritage, Wa Mao, as an index to connect the Lijiang cultural and tourism routes for illustration and image design. As a witness and guardian of the history of the ancient town, connect the diverse cultural landscapes of Lijiang. Using illustration language to express the outstanding talents of Lijiang, endowing traditional culture with new era connotations and modern forms of expression.
Project Duration: Launched in China 2023.
Operation Flow: Abstract extraction and reshaping of cultural symbols, spreading the urban culture of Lijiang in a highly creative and modern aesthetic way. Deeply exploring the unique charm and profound heritage of Lijiang culture, it has aroused people's love and awareness of the protection of Lijiang urban culture.
Image Credits: Image #1 : Illustration Ju Jijing 2023.
Image #2 : Illustration Ju Jijing 2023.
Image #3 : Illustration Ju Jijing 2023.
Image #4 : Illustration Ju Jijing 2023.
Image #5 : Illustration Ju Jijing 2023.