We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Rui Ma about their original and creative Type Design design work. Rui Ma is an award-winning communication designer, that makes our world a better place with their original type design works.
Rui Ma ("RM") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Hanzi and Alphabet Type Design. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
RM : The inspiration was from combining Chinese and English language culture. At the same time, I am also inspired by clean and modern visual designs, which brought me to think about how to create an alphabet that represents Hanzi in a modern way.
RM : The possibility to combining Chinese characters and English alphabet.
RM : To make this type design to an actual font.
RM : I have been working on the concept for years, always thinking if there is an opportunity to create the design of these two languages.
RM : An inspiration, the possibility of combining Asian and Western culture.
RM : People who are interested in using typeface of combining Asian and Western culture.
RM : Every letter was a custom design, this makes it unique.
RM : It is pretty straightforward, the meaning of combining Chinese/Hanzi strokes and the English alphabet.
RM : Adobe AI and Photoshop
RM : Every letter was a custom design, this makes it unique.
RM : By using the Adobe Creative Suite makes this concept become the actual design.
RM : The research was based on information about Hanzi character strokes and the English alphabet from books and online. It helps form the idea from a draft to the final design.
RM : The challenge of this project is how to combine the Hanzi stroke shapes and English letters in a clear and also creative way.
RM : I believe it is worthy to be seen and known by more people.
RM : I appreciate the aesthetic of designing Chinese/ Hanzi strokes and the English Alphabet. I would work on more designs like this in the future.
