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Jaehun Kim Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Gae Plus Yu Math Workbook in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Jaehun Kim of Visang for education, teaching aid and training content design
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Gae Plus Yu Math Workbook by Jaehun Kim of Visang has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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.
About Gae Plus Yu Math Workbook
Gae Plus Yu is a mathematics workbook set designed for elementary and middle school students. The set combines a Concept book and a Drill book, which are bound together with adhesive and can be separated by light pressure. Each book carries a different color and graphic, with colors marking the level of difficulty. The covers are shaped as paired semicircles that form a single circle when placed together. Students can select the level that suits their ability and study both books at the same time. The structure separates concepts from problem types to support independent learning.
About Jaehun Kim
In order to enable the children to lead diverse learning activities by themselves, VISANG has been endeavoring to make the perfect study materials. As a result, VISANG workbooks recorded the sales of over 100 million copies until now. By doing so, VISANG workbooks have become located as a perfect partner ideal for self-learning. In order to enable everyone who desires to learn without settling for textbooks, VISANG offer equal opportunity for our education without any conditions. It's fame continued by introducing the masterpiece textbooks, which contain the Ministry of Education's vision and the values of VISANG based on the know-how of VISANG only.
About Visang
With the independent spirit of seeing the ordinary in different perspective, VISANG creates the new global educational culture.
Award Record
Jaehun Kim of Visang is a winner of 13 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2018 - 2019 and the 2021 - 2022 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Award
The A' Education Design Award is an international competition recognizing good education products and projects by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to education designers, teaching aid designers, training content creators and curriculum developers from all countries. Typical entries include textbooks, e-learning platforms, educational games, training manuals, instructional videos and interactive whiteboards. The awarded education designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/education
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://desingers.org/130890
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/130890
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!130890
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/228780
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://book.visang.com
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Gae Plus Yu Math Workbook
- Function
- Math Workbook
- Category
- Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Education
- Colors
- Light Sea Green, Dark Cyan, Teal, Crimson and Dark Slate Blue
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jaehun Kim
- Country
- Republic of Korea
- Brand
- Visang
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #130890
Credits
- Team
- Seyeon Jeong, Minyoung Lee, Jieun Lee and Sanghyun An
- Image Credits
- Visang Creative Design Lab, 2021.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Gae Plus Yu is a math brand developed as an innovative mathematics learning system for efficient learning. The systematic learning collectively created by the ‘Concept book’ and ‘Drill book’ offers effective and rapid results to students. The students can feel a sense of accomplishment because they can conveniently select their customized textbooks and can acquire 'the most effective mathematics learning' organically through the two books.
- Inspiration
- Visang designed the ‘Concept book' and ‘Drill book' with different features and colors as paired semicircles inspired by the concept of the 'circle' itself, which represents the completeness created from the two systematic learning books. When placed as a set, the two semicircles combine to form a single circle, showing the textbook's creative structural characteristics. In this way, the systematic learning effects of the two books demonstrates the significance of the brand essence 'Synergy Up.’
- Research
- The content studied can provide motivation for learning. Visang published the 2002 mathematics workbook Gae Plus Yu through the development of an innovative math learning system. This type of systematic learning system is constantly sought after by learners. As a result, Gae Plus Yu has become Korea representative math workbook with annual sales of more than 400,000 copies and total sales over 40 million.
- Challenge
- Korean passion for math learning rivals that of any other country, but its students struggle through cramming and rote problem solving. Accordingly, Visang undertook a complete overhaul of the existing system and proposed a new structure of workbooks that fosters organic learning by fully separating the study of concepts and example types. This has brought innovation to the field and ignited a positive boom for a system in which students can personally customize their own set of textbooks.
- Realization and Technology
- The Concept book and Drill book are manufactured in the form of one book through a temporary binding method using adhesive, but are easily detachable from each other by lightly pressing between the books at the time of use. Developed to present an effective learning method in a short time, the books can also be utilized singly as needed, providing additional convenience. Spot color printing with colors denoting difficulty and holographic foil on matte finish complements the design's spaciousness.
- Operation and Interaction
- Visang applied a blue green color to the Concept book, and employed different graphics and colors according to the difficulty of the Drill book. Together, these carry the brand essence Synergy Up by being devised for students to select their desired learning levels and study two books simultaneously at a reasonable price. This establishes a new system allowing students to be more proactive in their own learning.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project first began in March 2021, and was completed in October 2021 in Seoul, and is being sold in Korea in 2021.
- Specifications
- Elementary school size is 220 mm x 15 mm x 300 mm, 0.2kg weight, and Paper Material is art paper 250g. Middle school size is 215 mm x 12 mm x 285 mm, 0.16kg weight, and Paper Material is art paper 250g.
- Keywords
- Cover design, Math, workbook, Math learning system, learnMath, workbook, mathematics learning system, learning, elementary school, middle school, high school, students, children
