Press Release
Mamba Chiliast Brand Identity by Sxdesign Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Sxdesign acknowledged for graphics, illustration and visual communication design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category for Mamba Chiliast Brand Identity by Sxdesign, designed for MC basketball community. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Mamba Chiliast Brand Identity
Mamba Chiliast is a brand identity created for a basketball community formed by fans of the Mamba Mentality. The identity brings members together through basketball activities and gives them a sense of belonging, pride and distinction. The logo uses the shape of a hexagram as its visual framework, formed by the combined letters M and C. An eye placed at the visual center represents the Mamba. The hexagram recalls shared associations of belief, organization and energy. The logo can be printed, sewn or injection molded in many sizes.
About Sxdesign
As a design studio in China, “SX” stands for Chinese “ShangXiang” which taken from “Yi Chuan”. The name expounds our core opinion: To build significance of daily life through the observation, extraction, abstraction and reorganization of phenomena. sxdesign creates and values languages and ideas of client and user, such as requirements, knowledge, or the attitude of sxdesign itself.
Award Record
Sxdesign is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2021 - 2022 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/131771
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/131771
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!131771
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/304255
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Mamba Chiliast Brand Identity
- Function
- Brand Identity
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Snow, Dark Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- MC basketball community
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Sxdesign
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #131771
Credits
- Team
- Xu Chen, Rong Zhang, Fangbo Wu, Hao Huang, Qian Hao, Beibei Liu, Yingfei Sun, Tianshu Liu, Haining Jiang, Shulong Li, Zhihuan Yuan and Mingjie Zhang and others
- Image Credits
- Sxdesign
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Mamba Chiliast (MC) is a basketball community for Kobe Bryant’s fans who believe in the Mamba Mentality. It organizes fans through basketball activities and provide fans with a sense of belonging, pride and distinction. Different from other brands, MC wants to tell their users that we are sharing a common belief and we are a group through the delivery of the sense of religion and power. The use of elements in the brand is reminiscent of these feelings, and makes the brand unique.
- Inspiration
- The logo uses the shape of hexagram as the visual framework, and the letters M and C in it combine to form the shape. This design intuitively calls people's collective memory and conveys comprehensive feelings about religion, organization, and energy. The eye of Mamba in the Logo, as the visual center, lights up the visual framework of the logo. The eye, representing the Mamba, serves as a reminder that fans' thoughts and deeds are always seen by their hero. This design is reminiscent of 'the eye of providence' and calls more people's collective memory.
- Research
- We believe that using people's collective memory in the communication process can not only improve communication efficiency, but also stimulate more emotional feelings. Through long-term communication, the hexagram symbol builds up a collective memory of the image about religion, organization, energy, etc. in people's minds.
- Challenge
- To appeal to and attract Kobe fans without the use of basketball elements.
- Realization and Technology
- The logo is combined to the shape of hexagram, so most of the details are in its proportions. However, the foot of m is slightly protruding from the figure, in order to compensate for the visual deviation and make the logo more stable as a whole.
- Operation and Interaction
- Powerful visual signals, it distinctly symbolizes the fan community It conveys the passion, resilience and bravery of the Mamba Mentality
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2021 and finished in November 2021 in Beijing, China.
- Specifications
- It can be printed, sewed or injection molded in a variety of sizes
- Keywords
- brand identity, logo, branding, mamba, basketball
