Design Bulletin

Design Bulletin

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

 

Chinese Zodiac

The Chinese red packet tradition is about the reciprocity of giving and receiving. It’s a gesture of goodwill, that builds relationships among family and friends. 2019 is the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Pig - the animal that represents luck, good fortune, wealth, honesty and general prosperity. Its iconic design style merges Chinese festive elements with both abstract and figurative geometric shapes and bold colours inspired by the Nordic landscape and the fantastic designs of plant stems, petals, shells and snowflakes that are found in nature.

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Xicang Market

The designer choice of the objects to be used as stalls, the way of displaying, the “daily design” of the handwritten signs and the relationship between people and objects, are the most prominent features the book want to show. The design of the book also well conformed to the creator’s intention- “simply a presentation”. The whole book is divided into eight chapters:: location, market, signs, stalls, oral accounts, goods, price and vendors according to the elements of a local market. The idea is to minimize the design and restore the scene of the marketplace by every independent chapter.

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Saks Books

This book sheds new light on the link between the individual and society in the modern age in analogy with that of the society and university. It’s minimalistic design helps it blend with the home interior and bookshelf. The pure white appearance is suitable for a research book as it evokes a rational sensibility. The motif of two overlapping circles reflects the book’s theme of the individual-society link. A special QR code on the back cover allows easy access to e-books on digital devices.

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Kinderpalliativ Netzwerk Nordrhein

Within the scope of a pro-bono project a new look for KPNN, a network for palliative care of terminally ill children, was created. The logo acts as a visual platform for the developed iconography concept. The symbolic imagery manages to communicate the sensitive content of this topic in a subtle, focused manner. Every now and then, one of the numerous illustrations depicts a ship, which serves as a stylistic device representing the transition between life and death. The simple, stylized illustrations manage to achieve a high level of visual distinctiveness which were used on the new website.

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Maldonado City

Maldonado is a Uruguayan city of coastal tourist attractions, such as whale watching and beautiful beaches. Therefore,it is a place attached to its landscape charms. Maldonado’s population needs to see the logo as the symbol that represents their small town, and be related to it. The logo demonstrates a new, fresh and friendly brand, joining the culture, the environment of the place and its city name initial as a essencial referent element.

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PLANTS TRADE

PLANTS TRADE is a series of an innovative and artistic form of botanical specimens, which was developed to build a better relationship between humans and nature rather than educational materials. The Plants Trade Concept Book was prepared to help you understand this creative product. The book, designed in exactly the same size as the product, features not only nature photos but unique graphics inspired by the nature’s wisdom. More interestingly, the graphics are carefully printed by letterpress so that every image varies in color or texture, just like natural plants.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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