Speech Bubbie Ifonti Yezinhlamvu by Xu Hanmin

Speech Bubbie Ifonti Yezinhlamvu by Xu Hanmin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Umklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award in Igrafikhi Competition Category.

IbhulonziIgrafikhi· 2023

Speech Bubbie Ifonti Yezinhlamvu

by Xu Hanmin

Client: Yi Xiao Jian Da

Umklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award Winner in Igrafikhi Category

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The Design

About Speech Bubbie Ifonti Yezinhlamvu

Umbhalo Wencwadi: I-Speech Bubbie iyifonti yezinhlamvu eklanyelwe izinhlamvu zesiLatini kanye nezinhlamvu zesiShayina. Ibhamuza lenkulumo (speech bubble) liyisiko lomdwebo elisetshenziswa engxoxweni yezincwadi zamahlaya (comic book), futhi izakhiwo zezinhlamvu nazo zisikisela imizwa ekubhaleni. Ukuxhumana phakathi kwalezi zici ezimbili zomdwebo kuholele esakhiweni esisha sezinhlamvu nezimpawu ezisekelwe ohlotsheni lwencwadi yamahlaya. Imigqa yokubhala yenziwe lula yaba yizimo eziyisisekelo zebhamuza lenkulumo, kodwa ilandela ngokuqhubekayo ukuqondiswa kwemigqa yokuqala, ukuze ukufundeka kugcinwe. Ifonti yaqale yadwetshwa ngesandla, yabe seyikhiqizwa ngesofthiwe ye-vector.

The Recognition

About the Umklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award

Speech Bubbie Ifonti Yezinhlamvu iwinile uMklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award, ukwaziswa okuhloniphekile kakhulu okunikezwa imiklamo ephawulekayo eyehlukaniswa ukudala, ubuhlakani nobukhali bengqondo. Abawinile beBhulonzi yimisebenzi enobuchule obukhulu nedala ngokumangalisayo eqinisekisa isipiliyoni esibanzi, umcabango nobuhlakani babaklami babo. Speech Bubbie Ifonti Yezinhlamvu ilindeleke ukuba ibe yinto exatshwa kakhulu, edunyiswayo nethandwayo, enobungcweti obuphawulekayo nezinto ezintsha. Lo mklamo owinile uMklomelo Webhulonzi we-A' Design Award uhlanganisa izindlela ezinhle kakhulu ebuciko, esayensi, ekuklameni nasebuchwepheshe futhi uhamba phambili ngenxa yokunaka kwawo imininingwane. Speech Bubbie Ifonti Yezinhlamvu iyanelisa izidingo ngokumangalisayo, ithinta izifiso, iheha imizwa futhi ikhanga ukufuna ukwazi.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Inspiration comes from: the text box on the text message on the mobile phone is a dialog box graphic, at the same time, on our social chat software, dialogue voice or text, there are dialog box graphics, and the dialogue on the comics we see is also composed of dialog box graphics of. In this way, the dialog graphics are combined with the font strokes
Dimensions & Packaging: Variable size
Tags: Graphic text, Chinese character font design, dialog font
Production Technology: Adobe Illustrator/ hand drawn draft
Design Challenge: To integrate figurative graphics into font strokes, first of all, we must achieve recognition, and second, we must convey the conceptual graphics to be designed.
Research: Speech Bubbie is a graphic convention used most commonly in manga books during dialogues. Similarly,fonts connote emotions in writing.Realising the connection between these two graphic elements,designers borrowed the form from comic books to reformulate the structure of alphabets and Chinese characters. Strokes are simplified into generic forms of speech bubbles while still following the direction of the original strokes,therefore retaining the readability of the character.
Inspiration: Speech Bubbie is a graphic convention used most commonly in manga books during dialogues. Similarly,fonts connote emotions in writing.Realising the connection between these two graphic elements,designers borrowed the form from comic books to reformulate the structure of alphabets and Chinese characters. Strokes are simplified into generic forms of speech bubbles while still following the direction of the original strokes,therefore retaining the readability of the character.
Project Duration: The project started in Shenyang in 2012 and completed in Shenzhen in 2021
Operation Flow: Dialog graphics that appear from mobile phone text messages/social software chats. As well as comic books, people communicate with each other, and dialog graphics also appear.
Patents: Apply for copyright protection
Team Members: xu hanmin
Image Credits: xu hanmin