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This series of illustrations was drawn by a Japanese illustrator, Toshinori Mori, for a calendar. Cats traveling are drawn with gentle colors and simple touches against the background of the four seasons of Japan. Illustrations are drawn in Adobe Illustrator. Although it is a digital illustration, it is designed to give a natural feel by adding fine irregularities to the contours and adding a texture like paper scraps on the surface.
Stained glass windows are beautiful when backlit by the sun and also a unique way to showcase this design and printing process. These business cards are virtually hand made. Silk screen printed on a clear plastic stock and then dried one colour at a time. Clear areas are treated as a colour unlocking the full design potential of the stock. A pearlescent seal and UV overgloss complete the process and create sophisticated effects. The design really comes to life when the cards are held up to a window.
With nostalgic music media - vinyl and cassette, combined with coffee, reading, and plants, this exhibition brings four daily proposition for modern, fast-paced lives. The key visual of this exhibition presents a rotating vinyl, a running clock, and a recording cassette. With records overlapping the circle of time, create a feeling of vintage flow.
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Changing Perspectives is an environmental typography installation made for the glass panels of a university art building. The letter shapes are cut from frosted vinyl and align into a readable message as people walk past. The message can be read from either direction, so viewers pause and move to complete the text. Each letter is about one to two feet tall, varying with the distance from the viewer. Light passing through the panels repeats the letter shapes as shadows and reflections. The installation invites people across the campus to interact with typography.
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Go Training Institution is a visual identity project created for a school that teaches the Chinese board game Go. The identity uses positive and negative shapes, a visual idea related to the balance found in Go culture. Line drawing in the traditional ink and brush style is combined with the gesture of playing Go. Traditional elements are joined with contemporary and youthful forms to suit children. Printed items include name cards, writing paper and teaching cards, produced with digital printing and laser engraving. The intent is to promote Chinese culture visually.
Sincha-Man is a corporate identity program created for a small car lease and rental service. The identity is built around a hero character, because heroes are widely recognized by their symbols. Illustrations, icons, symbols and typography drawn in cool blue lines express honesty, trust and speed. A motif suggesting a hero halo supports the theme. The same elements are applied consistently across online and offline media. The identity aims to give the new brand strong recognition and a favorable impression in a crowded market.
Menogga is a branding design based on the culture of the Zhuang minority in China. Zhuang tradition holds a legend that people are born from flowers, and the goddess Menogga is still honoured today. The brand identity expresses the female spirit, kindness and tolerance found in this legend. Traditional Zhuang fabric images were scanned and redrawn with digital design software to form a modern visual system. The identity is applied to clothing, packaging and umbrellas, using hot stamping, embroidery and flocking. The aim is to share Guangxi culture with a wider audience.
Listening to Transparency is the visual identity for an exhibition of sound art that presented 44 audio and visual works. The design is based on circular waves that represent sound sources. The waves vary in angle, curvature and colour. The titles are silk-screen printed on transparent PVC in a graduated dot grid, while the waves are printed on cotton paper with Risograph technology. The two layers combine into one image, and turning the printed page reveals the waves. The transparent look reflects the materials used in the artworks and the fleeting nature of sound.
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Bomapp is a brand identity design created for an insurance technology company. The name Bomapp combines boheom, the Korean word for insurance, with the word map. The symbol, the motif graphics and the overall design convey the idea of embrace, which strengthens the brand identity. The logotype includes the letter B, drawn to reflect the golden ratio. The precise geometry is used to express trust and professionalism, the core values of the insurance industry. The logo appears in a single color, blue or white, depending on the background.
Meat n Beer is considered a flagship store selling specialty meats and beers. The inspiration for the logo came from the merging of their two flagship products. From traditional cattle heads with their pointed horns, transformed with an iconic design in a modern rustic wire frame vector, interacting with the other traditional element, the beer bottle. The union is in a positive and negative space, succinctly and elegantly into a single symbol where text and image form a single image. The typography plays and mixes an old style Industrial font with a more modern Script.
Option is a poster design about women's rights. The poster asks women not to keep silent and to raise their voice to the world. The message also asks the public not to stay silent about an issue that happens around them every day. Silence is not an option for women or for the public. The central image is a cross symbol, taken from the marks placed on abandoned sketches and drafts during the review of the work. The cross states that silence is not an option. The poster measures 11 by 17 inches.
World Industrial Design Conference is a visual identity system created for a global industrial design event. The letter I in the conference logo is extended into a light cone, which is the main supporting graphic of the identity. The light cone stands for industry, integration, international exchange and innovation. Light cones in several colors rise upward and represent designers, design institutions, manufacturing companies and universities. The identity is applied in flat graphics and in three dimensional animation, guided by a set of design standards.
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