Bronze Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design · 2024
Wudang Mountain Visual Design
by Yao Wu
- A' Design Award 2024 Bronze Winner in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
- Awarded April 15, 2024
- CLIENT: Beijing Wuyao Cultural and Creative Co. Ltd.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 29,597
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About Wudang Mountain Visual Design
Wudang Mountain is a visual identity and illustration project created for the Wudang Mountain World Cultural Heritage site in China. The project includes three illustrations, three logo designs, packaging, patterns based on Wudang mythology and local animals, and the interior design of a flagship store. The main logo uses a complex form to reflect the history and solemnity of the site, while the commercial sub-brand uses clean lines. The packaging box measures 18 by 18 centimeters and combines embossing, hot stamping and ultraviolet coating, so details can be seen and felt.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This is a large-scale comprehensive project designed for the Wudang Mountain World Cultural Heritage. These include 3 illustrations of different sizes, 3 logo designs and supporting packaging designs, pattern designs with the theme of Wudang mythology and Wudang Mountain native animals, and the interior design of the flagship store. The main logo design of Wudang Mountain The complex design is chosen to reflect the history and solemnity of Wudang Mountain as a world cultural heritage. The Wudang Mountain commercial sub-brand adopts clean lines.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The size of the packaging box is 18cm*18cm. The surface of the packaging is embossed with hot stamping to show the pattern design, and UV is used to cover the illustration. The illustration uses giclee technology, and the size of the work displayed in the form of a single illustration is 3.84m*0.76m. 12 vignettes can be displayed as postcards. The dimensions of business applications vary by type.
- Tags
- Illustration, Wudang, Visual design, Cultural heritage design,
- Production Technology
- In commercial applications it can be used with other derivatives such as postcards posters and other cultural and creative works The choice of materials varies depending on the derivative IP authorization and photo gallery authorization
- Design Challenge
- Wudang Mountain is a world cultural heritage The biggest difficulty is to preserve its history in comprehensive creation and make everyone interested in its culture In illustration design how to integrate the classic architecture of Wudang Mountain with Wudang culture The layout of the image must be comprehensive The painting style is also excellent both realistic and incorporating a lot of Chinese mythology
- Project Duration
- The project started in Beijing in July 2023 and ended in December 2023
- Operation Flow
- Illustrations and graphic designs cannot directly interact with users. Through packaging and products, users can more intuitively see the details in the illustrations. Through the differences in packaging technology, users can feel the details of the pattern design tactilely and visually.
- Research
- Understand and reproduce Wudang culture. From multiple angles and build a grand cultural foundation with a narrative structure in illustration design. Create expanded graphics and logo designs for subsequent commercialization Strive to build a complete system.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by Wudang culture and Wudang architecture.
Paraphrase: Wudang is a famous mountain in China, the birthplace of Chinese Taoism, and the birthplace of Tai Chi. In 1994, the ancient architectural complex of Wudang Mountain was included in the World Cultural Heritage List. It is an extremely important cultural heritage in China.