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Chongqing Poster Bag

Chongqing

Chongqing is a poster series about the city of Chongqing, China. The design combines famous landmarks with hot pot ingredients. Hongya Cave, the Chongqing Grand Theatre and the Yangtze River Ropeway are merged with hot pot bases. A panda is shown bathing in a hot pot, holding bamboo shoots and green onions, which adds a light and humorous tone. The posters are produced by inkjet printing on coated paper. The design is intended for airports and high speed rail stations, where travellers can find destination ideas. The same patterns can also be printed on paper bags.

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The Early Chapter Brand Identity

The Early Chapter

The Early Chapter is a brand identity created for an early childhood activities clubhouse in Singapore. The clubhouse helps children develop an interest in Mandarin through immersive play. The logo is built from simple shapes in red, yellow and blue, stacked to resemble a small hut. The hut form represents the community that the clubhouse aims to build. The negative space between the shapes forms the Chinese character for Mandarin, showing the focus on the Chinese language. A half sun suggests an uplifting environment for young children.

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Leadlight Series Self Promotion

Leadlight Series

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.

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A Proposal of Time Key Visual of Vintage Vinyl Exhibition

A Proposal of Time

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 Environmental Typography

Changing Perspectives

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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SinchaMan Corporate Identity

SinchaMan

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.

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Go Training Institution Branding

Go Training Institution

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.

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Menogga Branding Design

Menogga

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.

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Tualcom Logo and Brand Identity

Tualcom

The logomark of Tualcom is inspired by the radiofrequency waves, which is related to the field that the company operates, and it simply connects the letters of Tual. Therefore, the logo not only emphasizes the company name but also refers to the operation fields of them. The branding is shaped around the idea of horizontal red stripes that are coupled with vertical blue ones to achieve a sense of continuity and communication. The resulting graphic language and the visual system instantly communicate with the broad audience compactly and efficiently.

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Subsidy Programme Series Visual Identity

Subsidy Programme Series

Subsidy Programme Series is a visual identity created for a public subsidy programme supporting the cultural and creative industries of Macao. The series promotes support for music and fashion creation and invites the public to take part. The design is based on the idea shared by both fields, which is creative innovation. Photographs of a microphone, a music machine, a thread roll and a sewing machine are combined into small imagined worlds. Each composition aims to express the purity of the creative process.

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Lord Qu Visual Identity

Lord Qu

Lord Qu is a visual identity created for a snack brand in Quzhou, China. The identity presents traditional Chinese food culture in a modern way for younger consumers. A character based on Confucius forms the central symbol, and the hair knot of the character is shaped like a steamed bun. Linear cartoon drawings connect the character with historical motifs such as the flying dragon, the Confucius Temple and auspicious clouds. A pig nose symbol is applied to steamers, tableware, lamps and seat backs in the restaurant space.

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Children Picture Books from China Exhibition Visuals

Children Picture Books from China

The Chinese Children's Book Exhibition organized by Confucius Institute headquarters was displayed to the public at children's hall of Frankfurt Book Fair. From different picture books, the experts selected the ink painting of Liang Peilong as the overall visual design style. Then the designers extracted the elements of ink dots from Liang's paintings, strengthened the saturation, and used them together with paintings. The new visual style not only meets the exhibition demand but also has the orientaltaste. Unique Chinese picture beauty appears on the international stage.

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