Buddha Said 插画系列 by Mengjia Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 平面設計 Competition Category.

銅平面· 2021

Buddha Said 插画系列

by Mengjia Li

Client: Northeastern University

A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About Buddha Said 插画系列

《佛曰》係一套以敦煌壁畫為藍本嘅插畫系列。作品精選咗壁畫入面五個經典故事，重新繪製而成。每個故事嘅人物形象都經過提煉，並以現代平面設計風格同場景結合。取材自敦煌壁畫嘅色彩運用，令畫面呈現出莊嚴而神秘嘅氛圍。呢套插畫係用向量設計軟件製作，並以800乘800毫米嘅高解像度印刷。作品旨在將傳統與現代設計結合，令更多人認識呢啲壁畫故事。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅獎

Buddha Said 插画系列是 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Buddha Said 插画系列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。Buddha Said 插画系列出色地滿足需求，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: Through reading and understanding a large number of relevant materials of Dunhuang frescoes, this paper combines traditional frescoes with modern illustration design, explores the integration of tradition and modernity, and thus creates illustration design works with modern design flavor and national characteristics.
Dimensions & Packaging: Printing illustrations:800mm (H) x 800mm (W) (sheet size), Data size:1800mm (H) x 1800mm (W), 300dpi, cmyk.
Tags: Dunhuang, illustration design, mural story, traditional culture, Silk Road
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 accurately grasping the characteristics of Dunhuang frescoes, combining modern aesthetics with traditional frescoes, and combining computer technology with traditional crafts to shape modern aesthetic feeling.
Research: This design selects the five most classic stories in Dunhuang frescoes for illustration design. First, the characters in the story are refined and skillfully combined. Then, the colors matched with the charm of Dunhuang are used to highlight the magnificent and mysterious atmosphere of the whole illustration. Moreover, the innovation of this illustration design lies in the integration of Dunhuang frescoes into the illustration design, and the integration of Dunhuang elements in the picture also enhances the unity of the whole design.
Inspiration: At present, Dunhuang Cultural Development Bureau is only limited to re-creating the image of Feixian, and the same classic Dunhuang mural stories have not been well developed and utilized. This design redesigns and creates Buddhist stories in Dunhuang frescoes, so that these classic frescoes are well known by more people, and the art of Dunhuang frescoes is pushed to the public and the world.
Project Duration: Luoyang, the starting point of the Silk Road, is in 2020 .
Operation Flow: This design selects the five most classic stories in Dunhuang frescoes for illustration design. First of all, the understanding of Dunhuang frescoes is reconstructed. Secondly, the characters in the story are refined and combined with the story skillfully. Finally, computer coloring with Dunhuang flavor highlights the magnificent and mysterious atmosphere of illustration as a whole.
Team Members: Art Director: Huo Kai, designer: Li Mengjia
Image Credits: Image #1 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #2 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #3 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #4 : Li Mengjia, 2020
Image #5 : Li Mengjia, 2020