Press Release
Seaside Home For Music Fans Marketing by Taobao Design Receives the Golden A' Design Award in Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design
Taobao Design recognized for advertising, marketing and communication design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 25, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design category for Seaside Home For Music Fans Marketing by Taobao Design. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
Regarding Seaside Home For Music Fans Marketing
Seaside Home For Music Fans is a scenario based marketing project created for a music and arts festival held in Aranya. The iconic cube of the brand was transformed into a searchlight, joined by gradient coastline colors and audio waveform shapes. Offline exhibition areas offered multisensory displays and music related games through interactive installations. An interactive live stream allowed remote audiences to tour the areas and watch performances. The venue was built with a lightweight steel frame, renewable materials and low emission paints and fabrics. More than 70,000 fans attended.
About Taobao Design
Taobao Design, a team serving billions of consumers worldwide, is dedicated to creating emotionally resonant design to make business straightforward yet beautiful. Our mission is to help renowned Taobao and Tmall craft exceptional user experience by connecting users, business, and technology. We understand user needs, clarify product interactions, define visual styles, and offer brand marketing plans; we strive for excellence in design.
Award Record
Taobao Design is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to advertising designers, marketing professionals, communication designers and creative directors from all countries. Typical entries include advertisement campaigns, billboards, commercials, print ads, social media campaigns and direct mails. The awarded advertising designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/advertising
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/171886
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/171886
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!171886
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/367660
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Seaside Home For Music Fans Marketing
- Function
- Marketing
- Category
- Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising
- Colors
- Steel Blue, Dark Slate Blue and Cornflower Blue
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Taobao Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #171886
Credits
- Team
- Gu Xiaoyuan, Yu Han, Sun Qi and Zhu bin
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This project,a collaboration between Tmall Heybox and 2024 Aranya Xiami Music and Arts Festival, employed a scenario based marketing plan to marry the brand with the festival culture. Tmall Heybox transformed its iconic cube into a searchlight to resemble a dazzling stage and a gradient coastline, building an emotional bond between the brand and young audiences. The project created an online and offline marketing matrix, improving brand exposure, audience engagement, and cultural resonance.
- Inspiration
- The iconic cube of Tmall Heybox was transformed into a searchlight. Vivid colors against a black background mimicked a seaside sunset. Geometric blocks and audio waveform brought to mind rhythmic music, and reflections helped create a seaside scenario. The Home for Music Fans, inspired by the Aranya Church, featured a top angle symbolizing upward growth. It extended along the coastline, with exhibition areas corresponding to life moments, echoing the slogan of life is about living a few moments.
- Research
- 2024 Aranya Xiami Music and Arts Festival attracted numerous young audiences valuing fashion and quality, aligning closely with the target consumer of Tmall Heybox. The project, taking the festival as the medium, integrated the brand into a cultural landmark, with the Home for Music Fans introducing five major brands for traffic sharing, resulting in great promotional effects both online and offline. It built a marketing loop of product experience, emotional resonance and social sharing.
- Challenge
- The challenge was achieving a unity of the brand and the festival. This project subtly married the brand characteristics with the festival culture. The posters echoed the key visual of the festival through visual elements like colors and shapes. The offline stage and the Home for Music Fans were differentiated, with the former for quick experience while the latter for slow consumption. Its combination with the live stream studio provided a seamless experience across online and offline settings.
- Realization and Technology
- The Home for Music Fans employed sustainable, renewable materials with low environmental impact, aiming to create a comfortable venue full of seaside charm for fans to enjoy music. The lightweight steel frame, combined with premium materials and exquisite craftsmanship, ensured safety and durability. Additionally, nontoxic wall paints and curtain fabrics that contain low volatile organic compounds were utilized, contributing to a fresh and safe environment.
- Operation and Interaction
- Offline theme exhibition areas with multisensory immersive experience enabled audiences to experience the products of certain brands and participate in music related games through interactive installations. Thanks to full process interactive live stream, audiences could virtually tour exhibition areas, watch new product launches, and appreciate performances. This broke the physical limitations of traditional offline activities, ensuring real time online interaction between brands and audiences.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was implemented in Aranya from August 30, 2024, to September 1, 2024.
- Specifications
- This project attracted more than 70,000 fans.
- Keywords
- Aranya Xiami Music and Arts Festival, key visual design for Tmall Heybox, visual expression of Home for Music Fans, theme exhibition areas with multisensory immersive experience, interactive live stream
