Kiwook Kim Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Science Stories in Daily Life Textbooks in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design

The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Kiwook Kim for education, teaching aid and training content design

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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Science Stories in Daily Life Textbooks by Kiwook Kim, designed for MiraeN, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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.

About Kiwook Kim

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, Kiwook Kim is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2021 - 2022 to 2024 - 2025 of the A' Design Award & Competition.

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. The competition 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. Entries typically include textbooks, e-learning platforms, educational games, training manuals, instructional videos and interactive whiteboards. Awarded education designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/education

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/163799
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/163799
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!163799
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/315336
Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.mirae-n.com/main/mn-main-01.frm

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Science Stories in Daily Life Textbooks
Function: Textbooks
Category: Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
Discipline: Service Design
Industry: Education
Colors: Beige, Light Sea Green, Silver, Burly Wood and Tan
Images: 5
Client: MiraeN

The Recognition

Laureate: Kiwook Kim
Country: Republic of Korea
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2024 - 2025
Design ID: #163799

Credits

Team: Hyunji Son, Byungjin Jang and MOMENT SERIES

Design Details

Unique Properties: Recognizing the differences between science textbooks with various fields, the content characteristics of each subject in a common direction were designed effectively to create good synergy for the common purpose of science books along with the characteristics of each field by using new and imaginative illustrations that were not seen in existing textbooks.
Inspiration: In the future, high school science textbook cover design. It consists of physics, chemistry, life sciences, earth sciences, mechanics and energy, matter and energy, cell and matter metabolism, earth systems science, electromagnetic and quantum, the world of chemical reactions, the inheritance of living things, and planetary space science.
Research: Consistency and differentiation made it possible to intuitively know the characteristics of each subject, giving convenience to use, It is designed to express the contents of each subject in a fun and interesting way so that students can accept science subjects positively with empathy and familiarity.
Challenge: The identity was created by using graphic illustrations that show the contents of the textbook well, and the use of simple colors increased the scalability of the series, enabling the cover design of various series.
Realization and Technology: Considering the characteristics and contents of each subject, the design was designed to show clear characteristics through post-processing such as holograms along with the use of color and graphics suitable for each subject, With a little wit and fun details, the user could accept it more positively, making it a friendly sign.
Operation and Interaction: Without missing the daily moments of science, it was composed of original illustrations and imagination so that it was easy to understand the curiosity and subject of the textbook content. In addition, common directivity was shown through graphic connectivity and simple color use to set the common direction of the textbook cover.
Project Duration and Location: It was planned and produced in 2024 and will be used as a textbook from March 2025.
Specifications: Frame: 210×275 mm Height: World of chemical reactions (5mm), chemistry (8mm), matter and energy (5mm), mechanics and energy (5mm), physics (9mm), electromagnetic and quantum (5mm), earth science (8mm), planetary space science (5mm), earth system science (5mm), life science (9mm), biological inheritance (6mm), cell and metabolism (6mm)