This year's audience is so aesthetic!
see! Netizens say so -
"Mighty and domineering!"
"It's so cool!"
"Chinese aesthetic yyds!"
What is this all about?
The protagonist is here!
Wu Dajing's "Chinese God of War Sun Dasheng" is printed on the red background with a golden Qitian Great Saint Sun Wukong pattern. The Chinese short track team is imposing!
Ren Ziwei wears "One Ride Absolute Dust And Absolute Shadow", indicating that a ride on absolute dust is difficult to surpass!
On Li Wenlong's "Jiaoruo Dragon", the golden dragon is majestic and majestic, attracting the attention of the audience!
What mysteries are hidden in these fiery Chinoiserie helmets? Beijing News Broadcast reporter interviewed Chen Yaping, the design team of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and listened to her talk about the birth process of these "Chinese-style" helmets.
The "Dragon Of Kin" helmet witnessed the birth of shoujin
On February 5, the Chinese short track speed skating team won the mixed team relay championship, ushering in the "opening red" for the Chinese delegation, when the female team members wore the "Jiaoruo Youlong" pattern helmet designed by Chen Yaping, a third-year graduate student of the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. "I won gold in the first game I watched, and I was very excited to see my design works debut, and I also felt that I was helping the Winter Olympic athletes!" Chen Yaping said.
In July 2021, more than 20 teachers and students of the Central Academy of Fine Arts participated in the design of the helmet pattern of the National Short Track Speed Skating Team. In world-class sports events, the helmet is not only a piece of protective equipment, but also assumes the responsibility of showing the image of China to the world, everyone brainstormed, Chen Yaping also submitted a number of design plans: "Designed a lot of plans, there are cheetahs representing speed, fierce wolves, and gluttonous patterns, but the final selection of this set of dragon patterns." ”
The dragon pattern is also one of the design elements that Chen Yaping chose: "The dragon has the spirit of tolerance, enterprising spirit and independent spirit in traditional Chinese culture, which also represents the spirit of athletes. At the same time, the descendants of China are known as the descendants of the dragon, implying that the short track speed skating team is the descendant of the dragon on the field. ”
Front view of the helmet of the "Dragon Of The Dragon"
Side view of the helmet of the "Dragon Of The Dragon"
After making more than a dozen revisions to the manuscript, Chen Yaping's "Jiaoruo Youlong" pattern jumped on the paper. From the front of the helmet, the domineering double dragon head is majestic, and the fluttering pattern below gives people the feeling of flying in the air. There is a circle similar to a jade ring in the middle of the helmet, and there is a five-pointed star in the circle, Chen Yaping said: "The star represents China, the ring is like a medal, I did not draw the complete dragon body, but combined with the pattern of the flame to extend backwards." Because short track speed skating is a very fast sport, I want to make people feel fast and passionate. ”
The power of science and technology makes The Chinese style helmet "more useful in the middle"
In addition to Chen Yaping's "Jiaoruo Youlong" pattern, three other designs of the CAFA teachers and students team were also selected for customization, including the "Vulcan Zhu Rong" inspired by zhu Rong's image, the "Flying Dream" with the Ninth Heaven as the material, and the "Blue and White" pattern with blue and white porcelain color. Each design integrates the Chinese national spirit and traditional Chinese cultural elements into it, with both a sense of traditional heaviness and the tension of modern design, presenting a strong Chinese style of artistic expression on the helmet.
"Vulcan Blessing" helmet front view
"Flying Dreams" helmet
Front view of the "Blue and White" helmet
Short-track speed skating helmets not only play a protective role for athletes, but also need to have the function of reducing resistance, so the athlete's helmets are designed with some microstructures in addition to the aerodynamic shape, which are very important for drag reduction. The spraying of the helmet pattern is independently developed by domestic enterprises in the water-based two-component polyurethane industrial coating, which has the characteristics of green environmental protection, low VOC (organic voability), strong color saturation, bright and smooth, and the helmet uses special surface additive materials, which can effectively reduce wind resistance and provide "god assist" for the Chinese team's outstanding performance.
Young Chinese designers want to "let the world see us better"
Chen Yaping's professional direction is cultural heritage design, and how to combine traditional culture and fashion design is a problem she has been thinking about. When she graduated from the undergraduate project, she applied the tea culture of her hometown to the clothing design, and tea dyeing and tea bags appeared on the clothes, which was ingenious. "Now in the streets and alleys can see a lot of young people wearing Hanfu, they will not feel different, will feel that this is our country's things, I think young people are slowly realizing their cultural roots of the things are very good, reflecting the national spirit and national self-confidence."
Designer Chen Yaping
Chen Yaping's graduation project "Memories of Home"
As a young designer, Chen Yaping also participated in the design of the Winter Olympic awards dress at the Winter Olympics, and the eye-catching "Ruixue Xiangyun" dress was also widely praised, and she was exploring how to combine the traditional culture and design of her country like Yohji Yamamoto: "As a designer, you not only need to inherit, but also need to innovate, keep up with the trend of the times, so that the world can see us better." ”
Source: Beijing News Broadcast reporter: Wu Si