New Chinese Style 手绘城市地图 by Pan HS, Zhong MM and Wang Xh is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 平面、插画与视觉传达设计 Competition Category.
铜平面· 2026
New Chinese Style 手绘城市地图
by Pan HS, Zhong MM and Wang Xh
Client: School of Architecture and Design, Harbin Institute of Technology
A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 平面 Category
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About New Chinese Style 手绘城市地图
《新中式》是一幅描绘中国兰州的手绘城市地图,呈现了这座黄河唯一穿城而过的省会城市。作品以钢笔勾勒线稿,再于特种纸上施以水彩着色,底稿尺幅为1.1米×1.7米。借鉴中国传统绘画的散点透视与移动视角,将地标建筑、水系、道路与市井风情串联为一幅连绵完整的画卷。成品包含外包装、地图主体及两张明信片。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 铜奖
New Chinese Style 手绘城市地图是 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New Chinese Style 手绘城市地图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。New Chinese Style 手绘城市地图出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This design represents a visual exploration that employs contemporary design language to recount the story of a Chinese city. Anchored by the spiritual core of "Golden City Lanzhou," the work takes its point of departure from a unique geographical and cultural fact: Lanzhou is the only provincial capital through which the Yellow River flows. The design transmutes the city’s historical memory, urban development, and folk customs into a readable, palpable, and "Guofeng" (Neo-Chinese style) visual narrative. Transcending the utilitarian function of a traditional map, this piece serves as a vessel to construct a cultural scroll that fuses natural landforms, urban structure, and human life, capturing the holistic temperament of a "City of the Yellow River where the ancient and modern coexist."
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Drawing specifications: the base paper for drawing: 1.1 * 1.7 meters.
- Tags
- The spatial narrative is grand, the details are richly illustrated, and the use of color is elegant and refined.
- Production Technology
- The process begins with creating the line drawing using a fountain pen (ink: Catfish brand, pen: LAMY/extra fine). Then, watercolor is applied for coloring. Based on this, the final hand-drawn map product consists of three parts: "outer packaging + hand-drawn map + 2 postcards." The material used is specialty paper.
- Design Challenge
- The entire hand-drawn map's illustration design is burdensome, taking a total of 1,200 hours to complete. There are 143 buildings and scenic spots alone, more than 100 different character shapes, and there are more flowers and trees. On the other hand, distilling and organizing these complex elements requires a profound level of creative thinking and design experience.
- Research
- In order to fully showcase Lanzhou’s urban development and the new vitality of its social folk culture, this work innovatively uses the unique loess landscape of the region as its foundation, skillfully integrating the multi-point perspective composition and ink-and-color-on-silk techniques found in the classical Chinese artwork Along the River During the Qingming Festival. By adopting a mobile viewpoint, it dynamically captures landmark architecture, waterways, roads, and folk scenes, weaving these complex elements into an elegant and cohesive humanistic picture. Presented in the popular contemporary format of a hand-drawn map, the piece offers a comprehensive portrayal of Lanzhou’s renewed image. The resulting visual narrative merges the rich earthy presence of the Loess Plateau with the delicate texture of silk painting, culminating in a expansive spatial story that transcends time and space.
- Inspiration
- Taking the expressive methods and painting styles of ancient Chinese classical art, mainly drawing inspiration from the famous Northern Song painter Zhang Zeduan's 'The Qingming Festival along the River'.
- Project Duration
- Completed Date& Duration: October 2023, Duration: approximately 6 months; Project Location: Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, China
- Operation Flow
- With the aerial perspective of "mobile point of viewing", combined with the Yellow River and urban roads passing through Lanzhou. Together, they create an intertwined spatial structure and visual guidance, showcasing the architectural sequence of Lanzhou's urban area as well as its folk culture and daily life.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Husheng PAN and Xiaohong WANG
- Team Members
- Husheng PAN
Mingming ZHONG
Xiaohong WANG - Image Credits
- IP and copyrights belong to Husheng Pan and Wang Xiaohong.
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