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Miraen Design Team Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Puzzle Learn Workbook in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
Miraen Design Team acknowledged for education, teaching aid and training content design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design category for Puzzle Learn Workbook by Miraen Design Team, designed for Mirae-N. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 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 Puzzle Learn Workbook
Puzzle Learn is a workbook designed for elementary school students learning Korean vocabulary. The workbook covers twenty-five days of study and combines comic book layouts with written exercises. Frames, speech balloons and half tones create a playful visual style, and four puzzle exploring characters guide students through the lessons. Simple explanations, illustrations and crossword puzzles show how words are used in daily life. A smaller companion book measuring 168 by 129 millimetres improves portability, so study can continue in many places.
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
This recognition makes Miraen Design Team a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2022 - 2023 editions 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. 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/148330
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/148330
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!148330
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/315336
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.mirae-n.com
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Puzzle Learn Workbook
- Function
- Workbook
- Category
- Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Education
- Colors
- Yellow Green, Goldenrod, Medium Turquoise, Dark Goldenrod and Steel Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Mirae-N
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Miraen Design Team
- Country
- Republic of Korea
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #148330
Credits
- Team
- Creative Director Hyunji Son, Brand Design Byoungsok kim, Jihee kim, Media Design Seyoung Hong and Character Design Bokyong Kim
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Puzzle Learn is an elementary level Korean vocabulary study supplement developed by MiraeN that is consisted of 25 days of studying. The name is a combination of Puzzle and Learn to convey the message of having fun while studying complicated language as if it is like putting the puzzle together. It consists of various illustrations with simple explanations and fun puzzles to stimulate the students' interest and enhance their focus.
- Inspiration
- Puzzle Learn is a game-like study supplement that is inspired by cartoonish expressions to provide a fun and easy way to study students with consideration of their academic level. There are different levels of games in this elementary vocabulary study supplemented with fun characters and cartoon elements which added visual entertainment. This is to lessen the burden of studying for today's elementary school students who are so used to the smart devices
- Research
- Puzzle Learn is a visual study supplement with the combination of a comic book and a workbook Rectangular images were produced with the motif that came from comic books to get rid of the boring layouts of traditional books and also to differentiate the product from others It is a visual study supplement with new concept that is focused on allowing the users not to feel bored by providing characters that change every page and different types of problems
- Challenge
- The concept was to allow the elementary school students to learn the basic knowledge easier and simpler starting with Korean grammar and it can play a role as a basic study book for math, English, science, social studies, and other various subjects It would be possible to be expanded to other series later
- Realization and Technology
- Entertaining visual effects were provided to the users by implementing frames, speech balloons, half tones aggressively. Small frames were used to print the book to enhance the portability so that the students can study whenever and wherever and the main font was applied in the title and the main passage to go with the cartoon concept. Colors were harmoniously arranged centering around the three main colors
- Operation and Interaction
- Four of the puzzle exploring characters were created to play and encourage the users to the completion of the study through their outgoing personalities. Contents such as ‘Check vocabularies with a simple puzzle’, ‘Use vocabularies in different puzzles’, ‘Solve the crossword puzzle’ containing various examples of the usage in elementary students’ life were inserted to help the students apply and use the words properly in their real life
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was published on November 1st 2022 and it is still on sale throughout Korea on and offline bookstores
- Specifications
- The size of the main book is 258mm x 188mm x 7mm and the size of the mini book is 168mm x 129mm. The portability was enhanced by producing the mini book which can be studied whenever or wherever
- Keywords
- Workbook, Cover, Education, Print, Design, Branding
