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Remember Me Business Card

SUNG HO NAM Business Card Graphic Thursday, 27 June 2024

Remember Me

Remember Me is a business card designed to preserve memories of both its owner and endangered species. The card carries images of 28 endangered animals, and the word remember is placed before the name of the person and the name of the animal. Each card measures 52 by 74 millimeters and is cut into a shape that varies with the animal type. Printing is done by duplex offset on matte paper with soybean oil ink. The card also serves as a bookmark, and the back can be used for short notes. The aim is to draw attention to species that are being forgotten.

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Zhangyan Country Living Festival Exhibition Space

Jiaqing Wu Exhibition Space Event Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Zhangyan Country Living Festival

Zhangyan Country Living Festival is an exhibition space created for a rural event in Shanghai. The layout is formed from old shipping containers that are staggered, stacked, interlaced and rotated to shape varied thematic areas. One group of containers encloses an area for forums, while another group defines an area for a marketplace. Local discarded resources such as wood, straw and reeds are also used. The visual identity follows the Memphis style and abstracts local motifs of mountain, water, fish and bridge. The activity space covers 5000 square meters.

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The Journey of Arita Book Design

Sunghoon Kim Book Design Print Tuesday, 25 June 2024

The Journey of Arita

A typographic design book with various stories including the importance in the development of Korean terminology and collaboration between designers. The book The Journey of Arita covers everything related to the Arita font, which has long been veiled, encompassing how the corporate typefaces were born, the story behind the font design, cases where these typefaces were used, interviews with 14 of the designers involved in the design per font, documentary photographs showing the process of creating typefaces, and products and books that use the Arita font.

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Stet Editorial Design

Alma Kamal Editorial Design Print Monday, 24 June 2024

Stet

Stet is an editorial design project that proposes new forms for the printed book. The project responds to reading habits shaped by the internet, which have become non-linear while book design has remained largely unchanged. Stet includes two redesigned books, two promotional booklets, three educational booklets and a biannual publication. One book divides the content into four levels of reading with word counts and time estimates. The other book is fragmented into short sections, so reading can begin on any page. All items are printed on Mohawk paper.

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Cuishan Intelligent Kitchen Restaurant

Yu Pan Restaurant Graphic Sunday, 23 June 2024

Cuishan Intelligent Kitchen

Cuishan Intelligent Kitchen is a visual identity created for a food venue in Wuxi, China. The identity joins local food culture, city history and internet themes within one brand system. The logo is arranged and repeated to form a brand pattern with strong recognition. Ginkgo, swallow and cloud motifs are used as core elements. The ginkgo refers to long-standing Chinese culture, the swallow to the region south of the Yangtze River, and the cloud to nature. The project covers 1770 square meters and was completed in 2019.

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Penumbra Photography

Maja Zińczuk Photography Photography Saturday, 22 June 2024

Penumbra

The designer took photos at a time when leaving the house and meeting people was a challenge, i.e. during the pandemic. Staying at home for a long time triggered the author's creativity. Therefore everyday objects found in the house, such as bowls of water, reflective materials, windows in the building were used to model the light. Her works were taken in color first, then changed to black and white. Everything was done digitally. Only one photo she took with artificial light from a lamp and it is a portrait of a boy. Silhouettes are often shown hidden.

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