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DesignNewswire · COMO, Italy ·

Bronze A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Goes to Vanke City Signage by Yongan Zhou

The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yongan Zhou for graphics, illustration and visual communication design

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Vanke City Signage by Yongan Zhou, designed for Vanke, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within 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 evaluated 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.

More About Vanke City Signage

Vanke City is a wayfinding signage system created for a mixed-use development in Yantai. The guide panels are made of ultra white tempered glass, a material chosen to stay visually quiet within the landscape. In sunlight the white information text blends with the background, so the panels recede among the walls, flowers and trees. The graphic language follows the interior design concept and uses pixel elements, a modular form and bright colors to build a recognizable brand image. Each panel measures 600 mm in width, 10 mm in depth and 2200 mm in height.

About Yongan Zhou

Believe visual design is a comprehensive art and design institutions, including design business brand image design, signage system design, environmental design space and multimedia digital design. We provide a comprehensive design services for many customers, won many international professional design awards. In addition to professional attitude, we still in continuous innovation and find the best solution, to ensure that created by our team work to maintain the highest standards, so that consumers benefit, to allow customers to obtain the success.

Award Record

Yongan Zhou is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2015 - 2016 to 2020 - 2021 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to graphic designers, communication designers, graphic artists and illustrators from all countries. Entries typically include logos, posters, infographics, brochures, packaging designs and business cards. Awarded graphic designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/graphics

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Vanke City Signage
Function
Signage
Category
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Discipline
Communication Design
Industry
Branding & Advertising and Arts
Colors
Gold, Forest Green, Black, Gray and Olive Drab
Images
5
Client
Vanke

The Recognition

Laureate
Yongan Zhou
Country
China
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2020 - 2021
Design ID
#122173

Credits

Team
Zhou Yongan, Zhang qianyi and Qiu Yifeng
Image Credits
Photographer Qiu Yifeng

Design Details

Unique Properties
Vanke City takes the three key words of sharing, communication and interaction as the core, and is managed by Vanke Real Estate in the early stage. Its strong ability to acquire and integrate brand resources is bound to inject infinite vitality into the life Museum.The design continue the core concept of project IP and interior space design, choose pixel trend elements, pure modular form, with bright colors, and strive to create a high recognition brand value image system for Vanke City.
Inspiration
Love the city, love the life, Use design to light up the visual flash of Vientiane life in a city. It respect the purity of every wall, flower, tree and space in the landscape. The guide design panel uses ultra white tempered glass, with such a pure to the extreme material language, try not to affect the landscape vision, to present the function of text information guidance.
Research
The guide design panel uses ultra white tempered glass, with such a pure to the extreme material language, try not to affect the landscape vision, to present the function of text information guidance.
Challenge
With pure modular form and bright colors, try to create a brand value image system with high recognition for Vanke City.
Realization and Technology
The guide design panel uses ultra white tempered glass, with such a pure to the extreme material language, try not to affect the landscape vision, to present the function of text information guidance. Under the sunlight, the white information text and the background are integrated, hiding the information vision of the guide in the landscape. The design hope: there is nothing, nothing is there.
Operation and Interaction
The design continue the core concept of project IP and interior space design, choose pixel trend elements and pure modular form, with bright colors, to create a set of vitality of brand value image with high recognition.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in September 2020 in Yantai and finished in December 2020 in Yantai.
Specifications
Width 600mm x Depth 10mm x Height 2200mm
Keywords
Grapic design, Wayfinding, pixelation, crasis

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