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Zeyu Wu Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Arts Fund Activities Planning in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
Zeyu Wu acknowledged for graphics, illustration and visual communication design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category for Arts Fund Activities Planning by Zeyu Wu, designed for Yilin Wang. The recognition forms part of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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 Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Arts Fund Activities Planning
Arts Fund is a visual identity system created for a character design talent training programme. The design combines the letters CUZ with traditional motifs of Chinese opera. Chinese elements are placed together with Latin letters to express cultural exchange between East and West. The overall framework follows the Swiss internationalist style, which is then broken by the CUZ letterforms, giving a form that is both functional and post-modern. The system is applied to posters, flyers, invitations and banners. The aim is to share Chinese opera culture with a younger audience.
About Zeyu Wu
Wu Zeyu, an ingenious designer, has emerged in the design industry with his outstanding design talent and unique insights. Possessing keen observation skills and rich imagination, he is able to capture the subtleties of life and skillfully integrate them into his designs.
Award Record
With this recognition, Zeyu Wu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Award
The A' Graphic Design Award is an international graphic design competition recognizing good graphic designs by best creative agencies and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to graphic designers, communication designers, graphic artists and illustrators from all countries. Typical entries include logos, posters, infographics, brochures, packaging designs and business cards. The awarded graphic designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/graphics
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/157359
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/157359
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!157359
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/351481
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Arts Fund Activities Planning
- Function
- Activities Planning
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Rosy Brown and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Yilin Wang
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zeyu Wu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #157359
Credits
- Team
- Chaonan Shen, Wen Zhang, Luyu Wang, Yihan Zhang and Ke Xu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This project is a visual system for the Communication University of Zhejiang for the China Arts Foundation's Character Design Talent Training Programme, combining CUZ with the traditional motifs of Chinese opera and combining Chinese elements with Latin letters to express the cultural exchange between East and West. The overall visual framework is built around a Swiss internationalist style, which is broken up by CUZ, making the design both functional and post-modern in its visual form.
- Inspiration
- The aim of the project is to better disseminate the traditional Chinese opera culture. We combine Chinese characters with Latin characters so that the posters can have a good communication, take Chinese opera culture out and show the world the charm of opera culture.
- Research
- Through a strong visual impact, the innovation of cultural redesign attracts the attention of more young people to opera, thus continuously creating a kind of propaganda for traditional culture.
- Challenge
- The use of post-modern design forms of traditional culture in the innovation, forming a very unique visual style, so that it is clearly differentiated from other activities of the main visual, appear more unique and artistic, so as to produce a unique visual charm, but also to better promote the brand.
- Realization and Technology
- The overall visual framework is built around a Swiss internationalist style through typography that is both functional and post-modern in form. The user can clearly identify the message of the poster from the text and experience the opera from the text and the operatic images.
- Operation and Interaction
- The clear message and unique visual format of the campaign's main visual attracted a large number of customers, who were very interested in the campaign, and a series of derivative products, i.e. practical and aesthetic in one, were unanimously well received by users.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Hangzhou in February 2023 and will end in October 2023.
- Specifications
- The common specifications of posters are A1, A2, A3, etc. The size depends on the need, and can be made of paper, plastic, airbrush and other materials. Flyers are smaller in size, usually A4 or smaller, and are usually made of paper, which can be printed, photographed, airbrushed and other treatments. The specifications of invitations depend on the number of people to be invited and the content, such as postcard type, card type, etc. They are made of paper, plastic and other materials, and can be processed by printing, hot stamping, embossing and so on. The specification of banners depends on the length and usage, such as 1 metre, 2 metres, 3 metres, etc.
- Keywords
- regional culture，Tangible cultural heritage，Graphic design
