Press Release
Haokan City Web Platform by Baidu Online Network Technology Beijing Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design
Baidu Online Network Technology Beijing recognized for advertising, marketing and communication design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Haokan City Web Platform by Baidu Online Network Technology Beijing, designed for Baidu Online Network Technology. Beijing, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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 evaluated 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 Haokan City Web Platform
Haokan City is a video creation campaign that promotes city brands online and offline. The campaign combines local culture, tourism, fashion and new technology to create a customized icon for each city. Traditional architecture, costume and craft details, including Chinese knot buttons, piping, weaving and embroidery, are shown through 3D simulation and dynamic visuals. A character named Dongfang Chen guides young creators. Short videos and offline events invite people to record and share the culture of each city.
About Baidu Online Network Technology Beijing
Baidu is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products and artificial intelligence with the mission of "making the complex world simpler with technology". Baidu's vision is to become the world's top high-tech company that understands users and helps them grow.
Award Record
Baidu Online Network Technology Beijing is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2022 - 2023 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design Award
The A' Advertising Design Award is an international advertising design competition recognizing good advertisement designs by designers and agencies worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to advertising designers, marketing professionals, communication designers and creative directors from all countries. Entries typically include advertisement campaigns, billboards, commercials, print ads, social media campaigns and direct mails. Awarded advertising designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/advertising
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/146901
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/146901
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!146901
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/336414
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Haokan City Web Platform
- Function
- Web Platform
- Category
- Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising
- Colors
- Saddle Brown, Maroon, Sienna, Silver and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Baidu Online Network Technology. Beijing
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Baidu Online Network Technology Beijing
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #146901
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- HAOKAN CITY is an online and offline video creation activity focusing on city brands. Applying modern technology and innovative expression, the team combines city humanistic characteristics, local cultural tourism, fashion and new technology and other elements to create a customized icon for the city. Through 3D display, it inspires the young group to record, communicate and spread the unique culture of each city through short video, promoting the integration of traditional art and modern life.
- Inspiration
- The activity aims to create a video creation and communication platform that gathers materials and inspiration from architectural art, humanistic history, technological development and other fields, connect traditional culture and young creators, and enhance their cultural identity and innovative inheritance. Focusing on the young group, it creates a personalized IP image Dongfang Chen with the character of exploring the unknown, full of curiosity and chasing trends.
- Research
- With the change of human concepts and the promotion of Internet technology, the cultural identity rooted in the hearts of people begins to be awakened, and the cultural landscape of the city is presented to young users through high quality videos, which revitalizes regional city content.
- Challenge
- Symbolizing the city, the project is important in linking culture and human, creates a strong intellectual and cultural output IP of HAOKAN CITY. By constructing cultural themes and establishing celebrations, it promotes spreading traditional culture from both online and offline levels, break cultural barriers, promote the urban cultural digital upgrade, and create HAOKAN Video of New Creation Ecosystem with firm cultural confidence, reviving the charm of traditional culture in modern times.
- Realization and Technology
- With the understanding of traditional architecture, costume and culture, designers transform creatives into identifiers, visuals, images, short films and redefine brand images through dynamic propaganda, 3D display, metaverse and other new digital technologies to make traditional culture visible, audible and perceptible. It is worth mentioning that traditional Chinese knot buttons, piping, weaving, embroidery and others are fully displayed in the outfit of Dongfang Chen by 3D simulation.
- Operation and Interaction
- Online, Relying on the advantages of short video platform, encourage old artists to go out and bring ancient skills and folk art into the vision of more people, and attract young creativity to record the unique traditional city culture with innovative expression techniques. Offline, Hold various grand activities, and cooperate with political tourism, cultural tourism, fast consumer goods and other industries in innovative and interactive ways to expand the application of industry scenarios.
- Project Duration and Location
- Designed and developed in Beijing in February 2022 and landed in Shenzhen, China in July 2022.
- Keywords
- Video activity, City brand and element, Cultural export IP, Virtual IP and digital technology, Coordinated development between online and offline
