Curridabat Ciudad Dulce Place Branding door Fabrizzio Mendez

Het ontwerp Curridabat Ciudad Dulce Place Branding door Fabrizzio Mendez is een hoog aangeschreven winnaar van de zeer prestigieuze 2021 A' Design Award in Zilver in de competitiecategorie Grafisch, Illustratie en Visuele Communicatie Ontwerp.

ZilverGrafisch· 2021

Curridabat Ciudad Dulce Place Branding

door Fabrizzio Mendez

Opdrachtgever: Kerigma

Winnaar van de A' Design Award in Zilver in de categorie Grafisch

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Het Ontwerp

Over Curridabat Ciudad Dulce Place Branding

Curridabat Ciudad Dulce is een place branding-programma dat is ontwikkeld voor een stad in Costa Rica. Het merk ondersteunt de visie van Ciudad Dulce, oftewel de Zoete Stad, die een positieve ervaring voor alle burgers bevordert door inspiratie te putten uit de natuur. Het visuele systeem is opgebouwd uit terugkerende vormen, patronen en structuren die in de natuurlijke omgeving voorkomen, met zeshoekige patronen die aan bijenkorven doen denken als belangrijkste element. De flexibele identiteit wordt toegepast op gedrukte en digitale materialen, gebouwen, buitenbewegwijzering en straatmeubilair, zodat diverse doelgroepen de stad gemakkelijk kunnen herkennen.

De Erkenning

Over de A' Design Award in Zilver

Curridabat Ciudad Dulce Place Branding is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Zilver, een buitengewoon prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan topontwerpen die prachtig en indrukwekkend zijn. Winnaars in Zilver zijn enorm briljante en uiterst creatieve werken die de uitmuntende expertise, het talent en de scherpzinnigheid van hun ontwerpers illustreren. Curridabat Ciudad Dulce Place Branding wordt verwacht een prachtig paradepaardje te zijn dat opmerkelijk professioneel en diepgaand innovatief is. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in Zilver heeft gewonnen, is een hoogst opmerkelijke, bewonderde uitvinding die baat en de grenzen van kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie verlegt. Curridabat Ciudad Dulce Place Branding is een zeer benijde creatie die verlangens oproept, positieve gevoelens brengt en verbazing en verwondering doet ontvlammen.

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Credits, teamleden en technische details verstrekt door de ontwerper.

Unieke Eigenschappen: Just as nature uses principles to function, develop and organiztion, a city can also use these principles to create community and develop. With this idea in mind, we chose aspects of harmony, organization, and logic that can be found in nature; such as fractal geometry, symmetry, spirals, stripes, fractures, etc. In the end, we chose the patterns of nature which show a coherent and organized growth. This reflects the methodology of Curridabat Ciudad Dulce. We also decided that the brand should be flexible so that it can express the diversity of the city's audiences and activities.
Afmetingen & Verpakking: The use of circumscribed hexagon-shaped patterns of nature (as in beehives) is the axis on which the visual system is supported, which will facilitate the identification and differentiation of the brand in all graphic materials with which audiences interact.
Tags: Curridabat, Ciudad Dulce, Branding, Costa Rica, Place Brand, Kerigma Branding, Flexible Brands, City Brand
Productietechnologie: Once the essence of the brand is defined– which serves as the basis of the project – a divergent creative exercise is made to capture relevant ideas and visuals, which will then be tested and filtered in another convergent exercise, from which 3 different creative paths that work are defined. Finally, the most suitable one is chosen to meet the objectives of the brand. The Adobe Creative Cloud design tools were used for final realization.
Ontwerpuitdaging: The challenge was to build a visual system that reflects a city that cares about the well-being of its inhabitants, not only humans, but also non-humans, such as pollinators (bees, butterflies and hummingbirds), as well as plants and trees, along with all other organisms, which are recognized as citizens. This new identity should reflect that the vision of development is inspired by nature, with a balance between the rational-scientific and the emotional-holistic elements. In addition, it had to be flexible enough to support the diversity of programs, projects and activities that different audiences interact with.
Onderzoek: Several in-depth interviews were conducted with key people in the local government. We review various demographic studies of the city, as well as documentation explaining the vision of Ciudad Dulce. We carried out an audit of the graphic materials and communicative efforts that had been used; also, we analyzed aspects of the city and its people, among other things. All this to fully understand the essence of the brand. The objective was to define a brand that adequately reflected the innovative vision that the city had been successfully implementing for several years. This defined the essence of the brand, the differentiating attributes, the values, the archetype of personality of the brand and its main purpose. From here, the design of the logo and the rest of the visual system continued.
Inspiratie: Ciudad Dulce (Sweet City) is a methodology based on nature; its purpose is to promote a positive experience for all citizens, by seeking inspiration in nature. Thus, it is from that inspiration that this flexible brand arises; it is built from shapes in repetition, patterns, organization, and structures present in the natural environment. These can be found in something on a large scale, such as city topography, or something as small as the veins in a leaf or a fingerprint.
Projectduur: This project was developed in the city of Curridabat, in Costa Rica. It started in July 2018 and ended in April 2019. Since then, it has worked together with the local government of Curridabat to expand other derivative projects and to accompany them in the process of brand implementation.
Werkproces: The vision of development in Curridabat Ciudad Dulce is part of the creative and generative logic of nature. This logic is reflected in everything the brand does to reach the diversity of the citizens. The hexagon patterns visible on all physical and digital graphic materials, outdoors, buildings, public furniture and more, make it easy for audiences to live the universe of the brand.
Teamleden: Fabrizzio Mendez
Yesenia Salazar
Carolina Carrillo
Jeisson Sibaja
Gabriel Jimenez
Beatriz Aguilar
Beeldcredits: All photographs by Fabrizzio Mendez