Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Goes to Joyful Visang Textbooks by Jaehun Kim
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 Joyful Visang Textbooks by Jaehun Kim of Visang has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Joyful Visang Textbooks
Joyful Visang is a series of elementary school textbooks for mathematics, social studies and science. The textbooks are centred on play and activity to support active participation by students. Each cover reflects the subject content: geometric shapes form familiar objects for mathematics, an unfolding view of the world for social studies, and stories of heroes for science. Rounded corners and an antibacterial coating improve safety. A foldable flap serves as a bookmark, a perforated area allows name writing, and lenticular printing adds a three-dimensional effect.
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 16 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/131226
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/131226
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!131226
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/228780
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.visang.com/pageLoad?page_id=/kr/brand/textbook
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Joyful Visang Textbooks
- Function
- Textbooks
- Category
- Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Education
- Colors
- Medium Turquoise, Orange, Hot Pink, White and Dark Turquoise
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jaehun Kim
- Country
- Republic of Korea
- Brand
- Visang
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #131226
Credits
- Team
- Minyoung Lee, SunHye Park, JaeYeon Jeon, Jieun Lee, Jin Kim, EunHee Kim, KyungHwa Jung, HyeJin Jo, YounSeok Choi, Seyeon Jeong, and KyoungMi Yoo, Sanghyun An
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Visang developed play and activity-oriented elementary school textbooks that encourage active student participation. Learning content was developed to demonstrate its applicability to students. The mathematics text cover combines several geometric shapes to express the appearance of objects in the world. The social studies text evokes curiosity by 'looking into the world' as it unfolds in the book. The science text stimulates the power of imagination with stories of heroes.
- Inspiration
- Traditionally, effective designs were aimed at universality that would not interfere with studying. However, modern students, who are daily exposed to diverse media and designs, find the old textbooks banal and uninspiring, failing to be interested or curious about the subjects. In order to remedy the problems of dull designs in the existing textbooks, Visang conducted experiments in cooperation with research institutes and directed the results towards changing textbook design.
- Research
- Visang textbooks are designed to be play and activity-centered, based on experiences that allow children to digest the contents of the textbook. After passing the 2021 accreditation for elementary textbooks, it was confirmed that the math, social studies, and science textbooks can kindle curiosity in students.
- Challenge
- Digital natives are daily exposed to various media and colorful designs and have recognized traditional textbook designs as dull and boring. To remedy this, Visang transformed textbook designs in tandem with research institutes and through a variety of design experiments. In addition, following changes in the educational environment and student perspectives, Visang designed their textbooks to fully cultivate student subject competencies through remote classes or self-regulated learning.
- Realization and Technology
- Antibacterial coating and the rounded corners of the book for the safety of students. Visang added function and aesthetics through post-processing techniques. The math text uses a foldable flap that serves as a bookmark. For social studies, a perforated portion can be removed, leaving a space to write the students’ own names for identification. Lastly, science textbooks employ 3D lenticular technology, giving a moving, three-dimensional effect to the subject, piquing students’ curiosity.
- Operation and Interaction
- Visang proposes an educational perspective aimed toward engaging learning. The cover design includes content from the course, enabling students to have engaging discussions and activities about what students will learn. Not only are the cover designs connected to learning content, but also employ dynamic and vibrantly colored illustrations that spark student interest. Additionally, the main text is designed to maximize the learning effect by considering the natural movement of the readers’ eyes.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project first began in January 2020, and was completed in October 2021 / Korea, Visang
- Specifications
- Width 215mm X height 280mm / Cover: art paper 250g, Body: high quality textbook 75g, Material: art paper 120g, 250g
- Keywords
- math, science, society, vividness, learning, education, textbook, book design, children, students
