Design Bulletin

Design Bulletin

Design Bulletin featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Visual/Senses

This exhibition catalogue not only captures with tenderness the texture of decorative elements of traditional Chinese temples in glorious black and white, but also the scent of a temple. It is printed with special aroma ink to recreate the atmosphere of a temple. Through visual lens, the forgotten, the ordinary and the archaic are given stature in this catalogue. It invites readers to take a second look at the overlooked and be engaged through the senses of sight and smell as memories are evoked; new possibilities are imagined and personal connections are explored.

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Boranda

Borandá is an initiative to encourage society to visit Atlantic Rainforest conservation units. Its name come from the Portuguese words Bora (informal for Let's) and andar (walk). Movement's visual identity combines colourful and organic shapes of nature with a modern-urban scenario, which is the context of the main audience – those who are not used to visit the units. Visual identity creates a path of trails and the line camouflages itself in illustrations in a playful message: to visit the Atlantic Rain Forest is to preserve it.

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Threaded Ed.18, The Curiosity Issue

Threaded is for creatives by creatives – curated using the construct of the interview and the medium of print as vehicles to disseminate insights into practice. Threaded’s focus is on practice itself. Threaded showcases the work of designers and the process and thinking that sits behind what we see. These insights into a range of practitioners and their practices bridges the gap between established and emerging creatives.

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Tasting through 24

This is a book of Chinese traditional foods, selected some stories by personal experiences about food and life. By using photos, contest and graphics, to show what I'm eating as a Chinese person and to tell some stories about food in my memories. They are also book marks made by spices, a poster, a handmade stamp, photo album and so on. Hope it may press Chinese cultures to who are interested in Chinese food.

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Matchsticks Forest

The concept behind these posters that one tree makes a million matchsticks, one matchstick burns a million trees. Worthless left over matchsticks are the main afflatus in this work. An out of context visuals made of an unexpected substances. Each entity of a matchstick stands out as a distinct character, it resembles the shape of a living creature, which evokes simultaneously the essence fact that these matchsticks were originally part of a living being (Tree).

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Kaleido Mall

The Kaleido Mall provides numerous entertainment venues, including shopping mall, a pedestrian street, and an esplanade. In this design, the designers used patterns of a kaleidoscope, with loose, colored objects such as beads or pebbles. Kaleidoscope is derived from the Ancient Greek kalos (beautiful, beauty) and eidos (that which is seen). Consequently, diverse patterns reflect various services. Forms change constantly, demonstrating that the Mall strives to surprise and fascinate visitors.

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