Bronze A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Goes to Let Parents Stay Anti-poverty Social Design by Yu Chen

Yu Chen recognized for graphics, illustration and visual communication design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Let Parents Stay Anti-poverty Social Design by Yu Chen, designed for Hubei University of Technology, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Bronze A' Design Award Explained

The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

About Let Parents Stay Anti-poverty Social Design

Let Parents Stay is a typeface based on traditional Han Embroidery, created to support a poverty-stricken village. Jinling Village is home to more than two thousand children left behind by working parents, and many residents are skilled in Han Embroidery. Local embroidery products sold poorly because the patterns had changed little for a hundred years. Classic embroidery elements were abstracted and reconstructed into modern letterforms, which local embroiderers stitch by hand. The aim is to create income and to pass the craft on in a modern visual language.

About Yu Chen

Yu Chen is the founder of Dawn Creative, a creative studio focused on visual communication concept design. He is a member of UXIC and a special lecturer of the Wuhan City. He has won more than 20 international design awards, including prestigious A Design Award in Italy, Pentawards in the Uk, Muse Design Award and IDA Design Award in the US, the Asia Design Prize in Korea, and the world's first Nxt-Gen Pentawards. His works have been reported by more than a thousand media. Ergen, a famous Chinese short video media, made a special documentary for him, the Temperature of Design". Many of his works have been collected by famous publishers such as Taschen in Germany and published worldwide.

Award Record

Yu Chen is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2018 - 2019 and the 2020 - 2021 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Award

The A' Graphic Design Award is an international graphic design competition recognizing good graphic designs by best creative agencies and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to graphic designers, communication designers, graphic artists and illustrators from all countries. Typical entries include logos, posters, infographics, brochures, packaging designs and business cards. The awarded graphic designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/graphics

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/119882
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/119882
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!119882
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/224509

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Let Parents Stay Anti-poverty Social Design
Function: Anti-poverty Social Design
Category: Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Branding & Advertising and Arts
Colors: Lavender, Royal Blue, Tan, Rosy Brown and Indian Red
Images: 5
Client: Hubei University of Technology

The Recognition

Laureate: Yu Chen
Country: China
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2020 - 2021
Design ID: #119882

Credits

Team: Xin Wang, Yongshan Zhu, Die Hu, Robin Liu, Shan Li, Yi Gu, Meng Zhu and Sailan Ding
Image Credits: Yu Chen

Design Details

Unique Properties: Jinling Village is a poverty-stricken village with More than 2,000 “left-behind” children. When the designer got there, he was surprised to find that all the local people had mastered certain Han Embroidery skills, but their product not sell well because of the old fashion style. So he worked with the Hubei Han Embroidery Association to help revive the local Han Embroidery culture.
Inspiration: In addition to two years of commercial operations, the designer has created a modern typeface, on a trial basis, by extracting the elements of traditional embroidery, deconstructing their texture, and the traditional Jing-Chu Culture, he promoted the inheritance of the old embroidery on the verge of extinction in a modern aesthetic manner, Inheriting tradition and carry on this embroidery craft that is on the verge of extinction by a new typeface, so as to pass down the craft in a modern language.
Research: Like most handicrafts, Han embroidery has several problems, for example, a long production cycle, a long time cost, low economic benefit, and poor quality. Also, the traditional Han Embroidery patterns have undergone little to no innovation over the past hundred years, so they can’t meet standards of the modern aesthetic, resulting in low consumer recognition.
Challenge: Here is a breakdown of several classic elements from traditional Chinese embroidery patterns. They are abstracted according to modern aesthetics, to reconstruct classic elements, bring out the culture hidden behind the patterns, to master the unchangeable pattern combinations of traditional Chinese embroidery, and produce a brand-new visual language. Creating a typeface composed of extracted Han Embroidery elements and ask the local poverty-stricken embroidery workers to embroider the letters of this font through the techniques of Han Embroidery.
Keywords: Han Embroidery, Embroidery, Typeface, Pattern, Visual