Press Release
Leman Jewelry Branding and Packaging by M — N Associates Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
M — N Associates acknowledged for graphics, illustration and visual communication 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 Leman Jewelry Branding and Packaging by M — N Associates, designed for Leman Jewelry Vietnam, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design category. The recognition forms part of 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.
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.
Regarding Leman Jewelry Branding and Packaging
Visual solution to Leman Jewelry's new identity was a complete new system to expose the luxury, exquisite yet sophisticated and minimal feeling. The new logo inspired by Leman's working process, their haute couture design service, by crafting all diamond shapes surrounding a star-symbol or sparkle symbol, creating a sophisticated symbol and also echoing the shining effect of diamond. Following up, all collateral materials were produced with high quality details to highlight and enrich luxuriousness of all new brand visual elements.
About M — N Associates
M — N Associates is an award-winning branding & creative design studio, started with M — Lan and Duy — N. We help creating meaningful solution & designing cool brands with powerful messages. We approach creativity differently. We believe that great designs are not only creating sustainable system but also maintaining intelligent strategy. Our works embrace a diverse range of creative solutions across brand and graphic system, products and packaging, websites and digital experiences, architecture and interior direction.
Award Record
With this recognition, M — N Associates is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2017 - 2018 and the 2019 - 2020 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/89734
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/89734
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!89734
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/220312
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://tiny.cc/lemanbranding
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Leman Jewelry Branding and Packaging
- Function
- Branding and Packaging
- Category
- Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Dark Slate Gray, Silver, Dark Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Leman Jewelry Vietnam
The Recognition
- Laureate
- M — N Associates
- Country
- Viet Nam
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #89734
Credits
- Team
- Duy — N, M — Lan, Quan Nguyen and Anh Nguyen & Ngan Huynh
- Image Credits
- Photographer : Monkey Minh Photography Assistant : Quyen Phan Videography : Lam Huynh
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- When it comes to jewelry industry, Vietnam has been known for a reputation of gold craftsmanship, trading and ignoring retail experience. However, Leman Jewelry stands out as an independent haute couture design brand, which specializes in diamonds. For years, they have been not just shaping up diamond the trading market in Vietnam, but also unlocking a completely new behavior to high-class society by their unique and sophisticated diamond jewelry and trading rarest gemstones.
- Inspiration
- Starting with the most fundamental ring setting shape, the shape which holds the diamonds and glorifies its beauty, the cross setting. We called it the Leman Star, as the sparkle indicates that jewelry brand symbolism, Leman Star is also seen in the center of the letter E in the logotype. Around the Star, there are various types of diamond shapes crafted one by one asymmetrically. The logo grid system based on the inner grid of the round diamond cut, the most common diamond shape.
- Research
- The whole creative process is a deep investigation and researching about all aspects of jewelry and gemstone market, internationally and locally. On personal touch, in order to input brand characters and signify Leman among others, the logo crafting process was a complete reflection of Leman design process for every custom creation. The logo was a Leman collection of all diamonds have been working on so far. Beside sophisticated logo mark, all other brand materials are designed based on minimalism to maintain sustainability for the brand as well as create an environment for their creation to shine.
- Challenge
- The most challenging part was production, passing Vietnam import law and quality control, especially most of production was taking part outbound. The production was taking care very carefully to achieve what never happened before in Vietnam. For example, diamond security seal card for investment is one of the first branded one in Vietnam, high-quality like well-know GIA card, where others are still using heat pressed PP cover.
- Realization and Technology
- Sculpted embossing special blue foil for logo, shiny metal pin to attach reversed shopping carrier straps. Italian made box packaging, silver hot stamping on texture blue paper. Nickel tag logo on premium velvet jewelry box with changeable inserts could be used for rings, earrings and necklace. Italian made plastic diamond security case with high-quality plastic box. High-quality ribbon with embossed hand writing slogan. Metal shiny lock for gifting. Lacquered deep blue box for jewelry collectors, handmade in Vietnam. Silk printed scarves inspired from logo mark.
- Operation and Interaction
- Leman Jewelry first came to us with a requirement of packaging system developing and outstretching a better luxurious, unique & personal system. However, what the brand needs is a total refreshment, in order to meet up its high-standard brand spirit, including reconstructing branding system and solving packaging issue. Resulting a hit to jewelry market, level up Leman Jewelry to be the case study for new wave of business improvement, meeting international professionalism in retail experience. It makes customers more satisfied and expand their market wider locally and internationally.
- Project Duration and Location
- Started April 2018 and officially launched 01 June 2019 in Saigon, Vietnam
- Specifications
- 8cm x 8cm x 10cm, 11cm x 11cm x 10cm, 21.9cm x 5.4cm x 5cm, 22cm x 28cm x 10cm.
- Keywords
- leman jewelry, jewerly, visual identity, branding, blue, vietnam, saigon, diamond, gold, ho chi minh city
