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DesignNewswire · COMO, Italy ·

Pop Pop Santa Village by Tist Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Event and Happening Design

Tist acknowledged for event and happening design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Pop Pop Santa Village by Tist has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Event and Happening Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Bronze A' Design Award Means

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 Pop Pop Santa Village

Pop Pop is a winter seasonal event design created for eight duty-free stores in Korea. The project combines cultural elements with retail space to offer more than a shopping experience. A Santa Village theme brings together winter, Christmas and gifts, recalling precious moments of travel. Illustrations of characters, animals and trees are joined by overlapping lines, so the images can be read like a puzzle. Neon-flex lighting, acrylic and fomex are used to add color and light to the white architectural space.

Award Record

Tist is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2016 - 2017 and the 2019 - 2020 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Event and Happening Design Award

The A' Event Design Award is an international event design competition recognizing good event designs by leading event designers and organizers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to event designers, corporate event planners, wedding planners and festival organizers from all countries. Typical entries include trade fairs, award ceremonies, festivals, conferences, exhibitions and concerts. The awarded event designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/event

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Pop Pop Santa Village
Function
Santa Village
Category
Event and Happening Design
Discipline
Service Design
Industry
Branding & Advertising and Arts
Colors
Gainsboro, Light Gray, Black, Silver and Dark Gray
Images
5

The Recognition

Laureate
Tist
Country
Republic of Korea
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#102112

Credits

Team
Lotte Duty Free and Illustrator : Jordy Van Den Nieubdijk

Design Details

Unique Properties
It was a winter season project for the spatial experience design of Lotte Duty Free that combined cultural elements with retail space to deliver more than shopping experience. We suggested a story that reminds us of precious moments of travel with a seasonal space direction and product design for travel goods. The illustrations by Dutch artist Jordy Van Den Nieubdijk portrayed the winter in Santa Village. The illustrations represented the theme in an elaborate process like completing a picture with hundreds of puzzle pieces.
Inspiration
We paid attention that the special purpose of shopping space of Duty Free Shop is where people visit for travel. The motif of Santa Village was an item that could include meanings of the winter, Christmas in the winter, and gifts altogether. The illustration style of the artist in a way like a puzzle helped to express new images.
Research
Duty Free retail stores have distinct characteristics for the tendency of customer visit compared to the normal retail stores. They tend to make visits targeting a certain period of time (after making a trip reservation) irregularly. Design VMD must consider the decoration of the space and the image of the season together. In addition, we tried spatial experience design, which combined cultural elements with space to deliver more than just shopping experience.
Challenge
The biggest challenge was to reconstruct the illustrations to fit the different spaces and interior designs of the eight stores. On top of the specified form, we tested and applied everything we could change including materials, size and more.
Realization and Technology
As all three-dimensional productions were linear, we grappled with how to express them. The neon-flex lights were designed to be attached or stand independently by using acrylic and fomex. We concentrated the technology on coloring the white architectural space with various colors and lights.
Operation and Interaction
The composition of images consisted of the characters holding gifts, animals and trees. However, the separating lines between the elements were connected or overlapped with each other and they provided a pleasure as if enjoying a puzzle. By recreating or separating various characters, a fresh and different joy was created at where the eyes of customers visiting the shop stayed. To ensure that customers who come to Duty Free Shops with the expectation of travel have greater expectation and enjoyment, the Duty Free Shop was designed to be another route to convey the travel experience.
Project Duration and Location
Nov 2018 ~ Jan 2019, 8 Lotte Duty Free Shops in Korea
Specifications
Neon-flex, Acrylic, Fomex / 8 Lotte Duty Free Shops in Korea
Keywords
Winter, Christmas, Jordy, Santa

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