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Miraen Design Team Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Fun Stories of Fun Friends Textbook in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
Miraen Design Team honored for education, teaching aid and training content design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 29, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Fun Stories of Fun Friends Textbook by Miraen Design Team, designed for MiraeN, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 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 assessed 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 Fun Stories of Fun Friends Textbook
Fun Stories of Fun Friends is a series of textbook covers for elementary school mathematics and social studies. The covers connect each subject to scenes from everyday life. Friendly three-dimensional characters illustrate the learning content in a playful way, so young students can approach the textbooks more easily. A different color is assigned to each subject, with solid background colors and special effects applied to the titles. Silk epoxy and solid Pantone colors give the covers a three-dimensional look. The intent is to raise curiosity and interest in study.
About Miraen Design Team
Mirae-N Design Team is an expert group of designers in Mirae-N Company. The team covers all design related projects of the company and deals with a wide range of design areas such as editorial, web, brand, communication, space, and so on. All members believe that creative efforts could make people’s lives richer and better in many aspects by connecting people and their thoughts and minds. The team strives for better design in all areas than ever before.
Award Record
With this recognition, Miraen Design Team is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Award
The A' Education Design Award is an international competition recognizing good education products and projects by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to education designers, teaching aid designers, training content creators and curriculum developers from all countries. Typical entries include textbooks, e-learning platforms, educational games, training manuals, instructional videos and interactive whiteboards. The awarded education designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/education
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/134787
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/134787
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!134787
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/315336
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www2.mirae-n.com/HTML/designContest/sample/textbook/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Fun Stories of Fun Friends Textbook
- Function
- Textbook
- Category
- Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Education
- Colors
- Medium Turquoise, Yellow Green, Cornflower Blue, Light Sky Blue and Goldenrod
- Images
- 5
- Client
- MiraeN
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Miraen Design Team
- Country
- Republic of Korea
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #134787
Credits
- Team
- Hyunji Son, Kiwook Kim, Byungjin Jang, Sujung Shin, Danbi Kim, Jinhui Lee and King-goo
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- MiraeN elementary school mathematics and social studies textbook covers express the images of daily situation of people's lives as in connection with the subject. Characters are illustrated to tell the stories of learning contents in a fun way so that students can have an easier approach to textbooks which may be a bit dry at times. The fun characters that match the eye level stimulate the students’ curiosity and they make students empathize with the characters to increase intimacy with the textbooks. Continual communication with a growing child is possible through this.
- Inspiration
- Making textbooks easier and more entertaining was the first approach of this project leading to a lot of thoughts and consideration. The design was planned in order to visualize and express the stories that are related to people's daily life with the contents to be learned. Cute 3D characters were created for this visualization and this added more entertainment factors to the book which is two dimensional.
- Research
- The research was done on the visual image that students like to come up with a cover and a new graphic design that’s easy and fun. This had to be something that students would be interested in and motivating to them to actively engage in their academics, and to establish such a goal, it must have been something that could be seen as cute, friendly, and modern. Finally, friendly animals with cushy feelings were characterized and used as graphic components. The design was completed by adding real life stories that are related to the learning contents. Research on application of the color code was also conducted in completing the project.
- Challenge
- In order to give students expectation and curiosity on the learning contents in the textbooks, a lot of thoughts were put in what the design could do. It was also important to think about what kind of graphics should be used to communicate as a bridge between students and teachers. Colors for different grades and subjects were studied and carefully planned. Finally, many printed samples for the cover were worked on to enhance the over all quality of the books.
- Realization and Technology
- Special effect, silk epoxy, solid PANTONE color, etc. were used along with 3D graphics of characters to give the cover a 3 dimensional look and feel.
- Operation and Interaction
- 3 design keywords character, story, and color were used to communicate with students on the covers of elementary level textbooks. Each keyword’s role is as follows. Familiar characters were created to materialize and realize the study contents that could be boring by maximizing the characteristics of each subject and using them to depict the real situation in life with proper space and visualization. Stories never stop with unique and charming 3D characters adding small ideas and designs related to the study contents that are fun and interesting altogether. Different colors were used for different subjects based on the learning time, characteristics, and characters used for each subject.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project stared in January 2021 in Seoul and finished in August 2021 in Seoul, and will be released in March 2022 to students from all over the country of Korea.
- Specifications
- Social Studies 3-1 : 210mm x 275mm x 7mm Social Studies 3-2 : 210mm x 275mm x 7mm Social Studies 4-1 : 210mm x 275mm x 8mm Social Studies 4-2 : 210mm x 275mm x 8mm Math 3-1 : 210mm x 275mm x 11mm Math 3-2 : 210mm x 275mm x 10.5mm Math 4-1 : 210mm x 275mm x 9mm Math 4-2 : 210mm x 275mm x 9.5mm
- Keywords
- MiraeN, Textbook, Elementary, School, Character, Story, Color, Creative Printing, life, Interest
