Serious Little Squid 視覺形象設計 by Youjia Gu

Serious Little Squid 視覺形象設計 by Youjia Gu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 平面設計 Competition Category.

銅平面· 2020

Serious Little Squid 視覺形象設計

by Youjia Gu

Client: MET Creative Brand

A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About Serious Little Squid 視覺形象設計

《正經小魷魚》係為一個餐廳品牌創作嘅視覺形象設計。呢個形象以「阿正」呢個代表都市白領嘅魷魚角色為核心構建而成。領帶同頭巾等細節設計,令呢個角色容易辨認。整體圖案風格參照黑白默片,運用冷幽默同簡約嘅漫畫場景表現手法。一系列名為「內心劇場」嘅插畫作品,呈現咗大城市裡嘅日常生活面貌。其設計意圖在於建立正向嘅品牌調性,同年輕消費者建立緊密嘅連繫。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅獎

Serious Little Squid 視覺形象設計是 A' Design Award 銅獎得主，這是授予以創造力、獨創性和敏銳見長的傑出設計的極具聲望的認可。銅獎得主是技藝嫻熟、創意驚人的作品，印證了其設計師豐富的經驗、想像力與機智。預計Serious Little Squid 視覺形象設計將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的物品，兼具顯著的專業性與創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銅獎的設計融入藝術、科學、設計和技術領域的最佳實踐，並因注重細節而出類拔萃。Serious Little Squid 視覺形象設計出色地滿足需求，觸動渴望，迷住情感，並吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: In this case, the designers create a strong sense of image, pretending to be serious but lively IP image to make consumers have intuitive association, and build a brand tone of "sunshine, positive energy, cheer themselves up". They grasp the popular "mourning" but full of positive energy of the target group in the current society, and try to enlarge the positive and optimistic feeling.
Dimensions & Packaging: The most representative of black-and-white silent film is Chaplin's series of works, which is funny and ironic. In the design of this case, an inverted expression is extracted, that is, cold humor and hypocrisy. This seemingly silent and less positive state actually expresses some very sunny attitudes.
Tags: Visual Identity, Commercial, Restaurant, Modern, Fashion, IP, Small Squid, Sunshine, Positive Energy
Production Technology: Designers take spokesman of urban workers as the prototype, and personify the brand to create "A Zheng", a vivid and lovely squid image. In order to highlight the image of "urban life workers", they added details such as neckties and headscarves to make them look in line with the positioning, and at the same time, they are very personalized, vivid and popular.
Design Challenge: Through simple and interesting comics and copywriting, and in the name of "inner theater", the life scenes and lifestyle of this generation of struggling young people in big cities are presented in the form of theater, one scene at a time, so as to arouse their resonance and awaken the love to life and ideal pursuit of life hidden in their heart.
Research: Party A hopes to become the most popular leading brand of small squid category that really understands what young people know and think. The IP background is set as the spokesman of urban workers, so as to become the communication carrier of the brand's original intention and shorten the distance with consumers.
Inspiration: With the rapid development of society, there are countless young people who choose to work in the first tier cities. They desire to have their own time and pursue freedom. Therefore, designers focus on urban office workers who pursue their dreams in big cities, hoping to cheer them up and create a harbor for their hearts through the healing and strong resonance characteristics conveyed by restaurants. So the serious little squid came into being.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2019 in Xiamen and finished in September 2019 in Xiamen.
Operation Flow: In terms of design techniques, the designers chose the form of black and white silent film as the carrier.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Youjia Gu, 2019.
Team Members: Youjia Gu
Yun Liu
Yuchen Wang
Siyu Xu
Yuting Wang
Xin Wei
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer MET Creative Brand, Serious Little Squid, 2019.