The Story Behind The "Official Uniform" And "Coming Out" Of The Asian Games

"Bright colors, smart style, fashion And the atmosphere modeling and unique design concept. More than 20 more days. Asian Games It will be opened, and the official uniform of the Asian Games will become the focus of Chinese and foreign guests. Reporters yesterday interviewed the designer of the official uniform, Professor Jin Hui, vice president of the school of art, South China Agricultural University. uniform The story behind "coming out" 。

Asian Games official uniform was eliminated.

Kim's grace, intelligence, firmness and modesty, as the deputy dean of the school of art, South China Agricultural University, is "the top ten fashion designers in China".

The official uniform of the Asian Games includes 9 sets of three colors of uniform, which is known as "ink dance". "This is the perfect combination of Chinese characteristics, Guangdong style and south of the Five Ridges culture." Jin Yu, the chief designer of the Asian Games official uniforms and vice president of the school of art, South China Agricultural University, said. "But you may not know that this set of official uniform has been eliminated in the" second instance ".

Kim told reporters that "ink dance" is almost dead. She recalled that when the program entered the central examination, there were three winning bid, "South lion dance", "surge of Pearl River" and "ink dance".

In November 2008, the Guangzhou subcommittee commissioned two university clothing design units to design official uniforms, one of which is Hua Nong. Jin and her team of 10 have undergone nearly 200 major modifications since the beginning of the design. The design must first be reviewed by experts, and then sent to the Asian Organizing Committee for review, and then sent to the Asian Olympic Council. Kim and her team have submitted 4 themes, including 16 programmes. They are featured by Wuyang, dragon boat, lion dance and south of the Five Ridges ink and wash painting. Even the names of the programmes are full of Guangdong features: ink dance, color boat racing, dragon boat racing, brocade overflow, Yangcheng image, and City Symphony.

In the end, they were selected for the 3 sets of works, namely, "ink dance", the Pearl River and the lion dance in the south. But whether it will become the final plan must wait for the trial and final appeal.

At the time of the trial, the "ink dance lottery" program began to receive favorable reviews. Some experts pointed out that the scheme was very bright. However, several experts in the field may be influenced by the Beijing Olympic Games. They do not agree with the ink dance scheme. Fortunately, Zhao Jian, vice president of Guangzhou Acmdemy of Fine Arts, vice chairman of the jury, and Liu Yang, vice chairman of the China Fashion Designers Association, appreciated the south of the Five Ridges ink dance dance scheme. Under their insistence, the design plan, which was almost aborted, entered the final judgment after many modifications. Fortunately, the modified "ink dance swing" finally won the surprise.

It lasted three and a half years.

From January 2009, the design team of South China Agricultural University art school received the mission, and the official uniform of the Asian Games was published for nearly a year and a half. Jin and her design team have more than 100 design schemes. They passed the first trial, the central examination and the final 3 rounds of competition, and finally conquered the judges with the perfect combination of "Chinese characteristics, Guangdong style and south of the Five Ridges culture". "At the beginning of the design task, the pressure was great, so during the Spring Festival, everyone spent in the design room." At that time, besides Huaren, there was a design team of a university in Beijing. They were the team that designed the costumes for the Beijing Olympic Games.

Winning the official uniform is one of the many options.

As the main designer of the design team, he is able to design uniform for Asian Games and disabled Asian clubs, so that he can be excited by many years of fashion design. However, when she began to calm down and seriously thought about the design of the dress, a passive feeling began to linger on her mind. Artists naturally refuse to be similar, and like to play their imagination as they please. However, the uniform design of Guangzhou Asian Games and disabled Asian Games has strict standard restrictions. For example, the uniform must use the core pattern, the color system specified by the Asian Games must be chosen, and the emblem of the Guangzhou Asian Games and the disabled Asian Games must also be carried out. "Although graphics, styles, and signs are all set, thinking is quite simple. How to combine these things with new ideas is elusive. This is quite different from the ordinary costume design, which makes me feel uncomfortable. Therefore, for a long time, we can not find the feeling, and the understanding of the core graphics is not clear enough. How to do it doesn't feel like a uniform. Jin Fu recalls. "Apart from the normal teaching work, almost all of the teachers of Huaren costume design specialty went into battle.

In the process of creation, many alternative designs have been made. The clothes that we are seeing now are selected from numerous alternative designs. It's hard work, but it's very meaningful. " Jin said.

Volunteer apparel

The "green life" with strong youthful feeling reflects the theme of the Green Asian Games.

Staff clothing

The energetic orange of vitality embodies the spirit of selfless devotion

Technical officer clothing

The calm and rational "blue ocean blue" reflects the spirit of reason, sober, fair and just.

Color design takes care of cost.

Reporters learned that the Asian Games official uniforms, there are three colors. The volunteers' clothing is a "green life" with strong youthful feeling. The clothing of the staff is a rich vitality orange, and the clothing of the technical officials is a calm and rational "ocean glass blue".

Kim explained that the choice of green clothes for volunteers is due to the vitality of volunteers and the theme of the Green Asian Games. The staff clothing, mainly orange, reflects staff's spirit of selfless dedication to the Asian Games, and also shows a kind of vigor and vitality. For technical officials, what they need most is the spirit of rational calmness, fairness and impartiality.

In fact, these three colors are only the main colors. Besides the main colors, there are spanitional colors on every piece of clothing, such as the change from red to blue, or from yellow to blue. This is also the style of South of the Five Ridges ink.

Kim told reporters that color design is a major difficulty, because the more color, the higher the cost, it can be said that "ink dance color" design, we should take into account the design effect, but also take care of the actual situation of the product.

Design idea comes from parental influence.

The design concept of "ink dance" is to use the freehand brushwork of Chinese painting and the characteristics of South of the Five Ridges color ink to deduce the core graphics of the Asian Games and combine the rough freehand brushwork with fine and smooth lines. Kim told reporters why the south of the Five Ridges ink painting will become the source of inspiration: "my father is a painter besides my teacher, and my brother and I are deeply influenced by him, especially for our occupation and character."

Reporters learned that Kim's brother is also an artist and designer. He also participated in the design of Turkey Pavilion and air hall in World Expo, Shanghai this year. Jin's mother was the first Chinese craft artist to design in a garment factory. From the parents' eyes, Jin Jin finally embarked on the road of dress design, and had a liking for the combination of Chinese traditional dress and modern.

Official uniform design

"Long angle" on the front of the lamp holder.

Jin said that although there was only one solution at the end, there were also 15 innovations that were not selected.

For example, in the design process, they have also considered the use of short coat with seven pants, tennis skirt with bamboo pants, vest and other avant-garde and fashionable ideas.

Also, the first design, the volunteer costume has a hat. Jin said that the volunteers' hat had had a cute "sheep horn" design, but later it was not considered because it was not beautiful. The logo location in the chest of volunteer clothing has been envisaged to install LED lights to facilitate the masses to find workers at night, but the cost is too high to be eliminated in the design area.

Among the other 15 schemes that have not yet been adopted, the beautiful images of kapok and the theme of Baiyun Mountain are all well received by the judges.