“As a designer, she prioritises the happiness of everyone in the world.”...
Ronda Studio — Buenos Aires, Argentina
“The challenge is usually to find a balance between creating a character that conveys what the client needs and at the same time fits the style of the studio and the illustrator. We work a lot on the idea of the story that we want to tell, no matter how minimal. In this process, images appear in our heads that...
ARCADE — Cape Town, South Africa
“The first aspect we look for when designing characters is personality. Giving each character their own identity. The second is appeal and aesthetic, the type of feeling they portray, how they look, do they suit the brief? Considering things such as shape, language, colour and quality. The third aspect is detail, detail, detail. This is what really separates the good...
Golden Pin Design Award 2022 — Design Mark Recipients Announced — Taipei, Taiwan
The Golden Pin Design Award Ceremony, a grand event in the design circle, was held in the evening of 02 DEC 2022. The winners of the highest honors the Best Design were revealed at the ceremony. This year, the Golden Pin Design Award and Golden Pin Concept Design Award received nearly 8,000 entries in total from 30 countries/regions around the...
Yuk Fun — Lucy Cheung & Patrick Gildersleeves — Portslade-by-Sea, UK
“We like a character with a friendly vibe and something about them that’s slightly unexpected that would make you smile. Or smirk.”...
Caner Soylu — Dżaner Sojlu — Krakow, Poland
“I’m Turkish by birth; I have been living in Poland for 5 years. Corel Painter is my favourite software.”...
Nika Perminova — Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Nika works on projects including the development of unique brand characters, illustrations for board games, for packaging and for children’s books....
Lay Chen — Shanghai, China
“For good character design it is more important to design an image that is closely related to the brand, one that connects the emotional relationship between the brand and users.”...
Bloody Hell Big Head (BHBH) — Thanawat Sakdavisarak — Bangkok, Thailand
“The difficult part of designing characters is that sometimes they do not reflect the idea I would like them to expose. So I have to re-explore until I get it right.”...
Tech & Kindness — Seoul, South Korea
“If you draw a cat behaving like a typical cat, it is just a drawing of a cat, not a cat character. A character needs funny (or unexpected) expressions that go beyond the normal behaviour of cats. Think of a lazy cat lying down, eating chips and watching TV!”...
Jthree Concepts — Jared K Nickerson — Portland, USA
“I’ve always found I liked simple characters, with a single defining feature that helped make them identifiable or relatable.I think this is why anthropomorphized objects are always so popular, they give life and personality to everyday, familiar items.”...
MovingStones — Seoul, South Korea
“If the characters are familiar and friendly, it may look good at the beginning, but the character’s own personality could be poor. On the other hand, it can be fun if the personality is really strong, even if it is off-putting. Therefore, when proposing a design, variations should be provided step by step within the same concept to find an...