Design Bulletin

Design Bulletin

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

 

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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The Kala Foundation

There has long been a global market for Indian paintings, but interest in Indian art has lagged in the US. To bring awareness about different styles of Indian Folk Paintings, The Kala Foundation is established as a new platform to showcase the paintings and make them more accessible to an international market. The foundation consists of a website, mobile app, exhibit with editorial books, and products that help bridge the gap and connect these paintings to a larger audience.

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Ryujin

Ryujin is an illustration inspired by the dragon deity of the sea in Japanese mythology. The artwork was made from scratch and follows a minimal approach with a strong focus on detail. The background shows Japanese-inspired waves that reflect the character. The concept was first sketched digitally, then vector linework, shading and color were applied, and final adjustments completed the image. The illustration is printed on posters, greeting cards and shirts. The aim was to convey the power of the character through traditional Japanese imagery combined with a personal style.

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Branding Accademia of Perugia

The Accademia of Perugia, needed a new visual identity to reflect the institution's desire to move quickly into the future. S&P worked with ABA's staff and students to involve different departments and aspects of the Academy. Designers' challenge was to create a unified kinetic brand identity and architecture that also gave individuality to the single courses. They created an energetic, robust, and positive identity system that works across the different arts avoiding the typical clichés and conventions.

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Craft as Time Capsule

This project is the final documentation of Hsiao-Wen's thesis research on craft making as a preservation methodology in the current digital age. The book consists of three parts, examining the transition between the physical and virtual, material and data, user engagement and experience from the perspective of craft making and preservation. As the world transitioned from physical activities to virtual interactions, new needs and forms of engagement with our surroundings were prompted. Such change not only exhibits via the object and the technology, but also the whole culture at large.

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Moneta

OWDT was hired to design a flexible identity system that was dynamic and technically inclusive. We made it our purpose to highlight the technologies used by Moneta in the brand mark. The design gracefully overcame the challenge of balancing the brand’s geolocation characteristics and data type visuals. Moneta’s brand identity now clearly leads its highly technical audience to the world’s most dynamic geolocation technology.

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