Press Release
Manye Xu Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Yi Music Website in Website and Web Design
Manye Xu recognized for website and web design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Yi Music Website by Manye Xu, designed for Xu Manye, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Website and Web Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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 Yi Music Website
Yi Music is a website designed to present the music and culture of the Yi people, a minority nationality in southwest China. Icons on the site are drawn from traditional Yi patterns and architecture. The home page uses a green circle to represent the sun and the moon, which hold an important place in Yi belief. Visitors can listen to songs by Yi singers and create a personal music poster to share. A history page explains traditional instruments and their sounds, a game page tests listening skills, and an online shop offers albums.
About Manye Xu
I used to be a journalist and now I change my career to a designer. I am always interested in communication, but I change my written words to visual symbols. But what will never change is I will find out the beauty in life for people and myself.
Award Record
With this recognition, Manye Xu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Website and Web Design Awards
The A' Web Design Award is an international web design competition recognizing good web designs by leading web designers, coders and developers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to web designers, user interface designers, user experience designers and graphic designers from all countries. Entries typically include web design, portfolios, e-commerce sites, blogs, news websites and social media platforms. Awarded web designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/web
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/101416
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/101416
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!101416
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/273789
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Yi Music Website
- Function
- Website
- Category
- Website and Web Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software and Branding & Advertising
- Colors
- Lavender, Gainsboro, Yellow, Pale Turquoise and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Xu Manye
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Manye Xu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #101416
Credits
- Team
- Xu Manye
- Image Credits
- Designer Xu Manye, Yi Music, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- There are many different types of music websites. Most of them are focusing on commercial pop music and so on. But the Yi Music website is designed for the purpose to let people know there is a mystery Yi culture in Southwest China. Yi people use their songs and voices to tell their stories about love, sadness, home, and beliefs. Yi Music is promoting cultural diversity and cultural communication platform.
- Inspiration
- I'm a Yi people who are one of the minority nationalities in China. It is always my interest to promote my culture to the world. We have our own language and culture. However, due to urbanization and the poor economy in the Yi region, many young people move out of our own homeland and gradually forget our own unique culture and language as well. Our culture nowadays is gradually disappearing and our people spread in many different places and forget our cultural roots. For me, my great great grandfather had moved from Yi village to Guangxi Province a long time ago, so I am also no so familiar with Yi culture. But I want to search my roots and protect Yi culture.
- Research
- There are more than 7 million Yi people live in China. Many Yi people live in the deep mountains in some provinces such as Yunnan and Sichuan. The Yi people believe in nature, ancestors, heaven and earth, sun and moon, etc. They are good at singing and dancing. The grandest festival of Yi is the Torch Festival. They have many unique totem patterns, embroidery crafts and musical instruments such as Yueqin.
- Challenge
- It is very difficult to find out what kinds of patterns or colors can represent Yi culture. And this music website is not a commercial website but a cultural promoting website. It needs to be funny and interesting, and also functional and have educational meaning.
- Realization and Technology
- I used Adobe Illustrator to create icons that inspired by Yi traditional patterns and architectures. And also use photoshop to design the whole website interface and framework.
- Operation and Interaction
- This is a conceptional project. Yi people believe in homeland and ancestor, gods of fire and moon. People can see all those factors in the home page. The green circle represents both sun and moon, these are great gods of Yi people. You can listen to Yi music from Yi singers after you click the home page and you can also share the song with your friends by creating your own DIY music poster in DIY sharing page. Then when you click the history page buttom, you will see the traditional instruments of Yi and know their names and their sounds.
- Specifications
- Website interface design, designed by photoshop and illustrator.
- Keywords
- Yi nationality, Yi music
