Yongle Palace Myth 插畫 by Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai 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
Yongle Palace Myth 插畫
Client: Northeastern University
A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 平面 Category
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About Yongle Palace Myth 插畫
《永樂宮神話》係一系列卡通人物插畫,靈感源自中國山西永樂宮嘅元代壁畫。作者將壁畫入面嘅人物形象加以簡化、誇張同裝飾化處理,以迎合現代審美,並加入咗仙鶴、荷花同絲帶等元素。插畫以矢量軟件繪製,運用曲線工具保留咗服飾嘅輕盈感同原壁畫嘅線條美感。作品以四色印刷製作而成,旨在引起公眾對壁畫嘅興趣,從而推動對呢啲文化遺產嘅保護。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅獎
Yongle Palace Myth 插畫是 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Yongle Palace Myth 插畫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。Yongle Palace Myth 插畫出色地滿足需求，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
- The frescoes of Yongle Palace in China are made into cartoon figures by computer technology. It is a promising career and bright future to display Yongle Palace culture in a new aesthetic way. The cartoon works include "empress mother", "Emperor Huang Tian", "Queen Mother of the west", "maid" and so on. Cartoon image has found a foothold of design, which is to transform the traditional mural into the image accepted and loved by people.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Cartoon figure painting is 127x127cm, 63.5x63.5cm, plane printing.
- Tags
- Yongle Palace, mural, cartoon, illustration, character, myth.
- Production Technology
- The cartoon is painted by the vector graphic design software Adobe Illustrator. Bessel tools are widely used to depict the elegant and light feeling of the characters' clothing and the essence of the line drawing art of the Yongle Palace mural. The cartoon is printed in four colors for the promotion of graphic design.
- Design Challenge
- The line drawing technology of this kind of cartoon painting is not easy, so it is necessary to summarize and sort out the frescoes of Yongle Palace, and grasp the characters' expression and the charm of the line drawing. In particular, to draw traditional mural characters in the form of modern cartoon, we need to transform time and space, which needs to be challenged.
- Research
- Yongle Palace mural needs publicity and recognition. The cartoon character illustration design is based on the prototype of Yongle Palace mural characters, seizing the verve and body style of the characters, and adopting simplification, exaggeration and decoration techniques to upgrade the characters of Yongle Palace mural. Add crane, lotus, ribbon and other elements to show Chinese "Taoist" art and enhance people's sense of identity.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration comes from the fresco of Yongle Palace, which is a large-scale fresco art painted in the Yuan Dynasty in Shanxi Province, China. With the development of time, the disappearance of murals in architecture is inevitable. Therefore, the preserved murals of Yongle Palace need to be protected and inherited. The mural characters of Yongle Palace designed with cartoon appeal to people to pay attention to and protect the murals of Yongle Palace.
- Project Duration
- The project started from March 2019 and finished in September 2019 in Shenyang.
- Operation Flow
- In the publicity of Yongle Palace, the use of cartoon image is an important part of the publicity. With the aesthetic and hobbies of modern people, people's interest and understanding of Yongle Palace will be enhanced, and the murals of Yongle Palace will be deeply rooted in people's hearts.
- Team Members
- Design Director:Huo Kai, Illustrator: Wang Yumeng
- Image Credits
- Wang Yumeng and Huo Kai, 2019.
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