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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.
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.
UltiSante is a brand identity created for a health product based on long term clinical research. The identity presents scientific innovation together with human care. Green is combined with deep gray to suggest innovation and the light of life. The green tone appears from inside the deep gray envelope, showing the key component of the product. Gold details add a sense of prestige, and a color gradient expresses the ongoing process toward better health. The identity is applied to an envelope, a light, a wall and a catalog.
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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Breath is a series of posters created to encourage public health awareness during the COVID-19 pandemic. The posters use positive and negative shapes, combining the side profile of a face with the edge of a mask. The shared outlines suggest a symbiotic relationship between breathing and protection. Further elements such as the sky, the city, the heart and a heartbeat extend the theme to community and unity. The graphics are hand drawn and prepared with image editing software. Each poster measures 700 by 1000 millimetres.
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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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.
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.
Pavomea Dessert Store is a branding and space design project for a dessert brand that combines desserts and snacks with artistic elements. The concept is based on the German color theorist Goethe, who studied color and developed a hexagonal color wheel. The logo can shift into three modes to express the idea of a prism and to add contrast between lines and shapes. A pure white color scheme presents the panchromatic theme. The packaging uses paper structures, while the lamp design uses acrylic. The idea of light guides the branding system and the store interior.
The two gods who have to give up much because they are parents can not spread both wings. Contrary to the situation where you can empathize and laugh together, the blunt color represents the dark feelings of parents. This story is for all parents in this age who have to give up much for their families.