Speech Bubbie 字體 by Xu Hanmin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 平面設計 Competition Category.

銅平面· 2023

Speech Bubbie 字體

by Xu Hanmin

Client: Yi Xiao Jian Da

A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About Speech Bubbie 字體

Book Text: 「對話氣泡」係一款專為拉丁字母同中文字設計嘅字體。對話氣泡係漫畫對白入面常用嘅圖形符號,而字形本身亦都可以喺書寫中表達情感。呢兩種圖形元素之間嘅聯繫,啟發咗一種以漫畫形式為基礎嘅全新文字結構。筆劃被簡化成通用嘅對話氣泡形狀,同時仍然遵循原本筆劃嘅走向,從而保持文字嘅可讀性。呢款字體最初以手繪方式設計,然後再用向量軟件製作完成。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅獎

Speech Bubbie 字體是 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Speech Bubbie 字體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。Speech Bubbie 字體出色地滿足需求，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: 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