Chinese Zodiac
Chinese Zodiac Typography by Mengyu Cao is a winner of the 2021 Iron A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design.
Chinese Zodiac is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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The Chinese Zodiac typography includes 12 characters. Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. It combines Chinese calligraphy and Chinese traditional watercolor drawing. With design thinking, it breaks the original calligraphy forms and adds creative drawings to it harmoniously to show the meaning of each character within itself. Chinese characters always look like complicated drawings to people who don't know Chinese. The purpose of this project is to make the Chinese characters understandable to everyone to spread Chinese culture.
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Chinese Zodiac by Mengyu Cao
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Typography
Accolades
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Award Winner in 2021.
Iron Winner
Chinese Zodiac Typography
Chinese Zodiac is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Chinese Zodiac is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Chinese Zodiac is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Mengyu Cao
Mengyu Cao (MC) is the founder of YiQi Hanzi. She has been making creative Chinese calligraphy to help people learn Chinese with visuals and story-telling. Her YiQi Hanzi products include physical flashcards, online learning applications, and merchandise. She started her design journey as a Graphic Designer and then stepped into Digital Product Design for the past decade.
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YiQi Hanzi
YiQi Hanzi provides the efficient way to learn & memorize Chinese Characters. Their mission is to deliver the beauty of Chinese characters and cultures to the word. Yiqi Hanzi started on a dining table. MC, the founder, started to create character drawings as an interest in Chinese cultures and characters. After a couple years, they now have a thousand unique Chinese characters drawings, launched online learning center to help Chinese learners with their Chinese journeys.
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