Design Bulletin

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Cuishan Intelligent Kitchen Restaurant

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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Cat With Fruits Illustrations

Cat With Fruits

Cat With Fruits is a series of illustrations created for the packaging of a dried fruit brand. Each illustration shows cats playing with different fruits. The colors were taken from photographs of nature captured with a mobile phone camera and then desaturated to create gentle tones. The drawings were completed in Photoshop CC 2020 at A4 size, 297 by 210 millimeters. The natural palette supports the pure and pollution free character of the product. The series follows the idea of naturalism and aims to give viewers a calm and comforting impression.

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Wolffstrunk Corporate Identity

Wolffstrunk

Wolffstrunk is a corporate identity created for a brand of fruit schnapps and fruit liqueurs produced in a private distillery. Graphic reduction and precision characterize the visual identity. A simplified figure of a wolf serves as the design mark of the corporate design system, and the stylized shape of a drop is added to the figure. A movable head gives the mark a humorous character and allows dynamic layouts. The system includes a composite mark, business documents, bottle labels, posters, postcards, a brand book and a short website animation.

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Chez Vous Branding

Chez Vous

Chez Vous is a visual identity created for a Belgian restaurant in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The identity reinterprets Belgian icons, such as Magritte, the Manneken Pis, rain and traditional fries, through a simple illustration style. Short texts include Belgian dialect variations, adding a sense of humor to the graphic compositions. The identity is applied to menus, posters, panels, packaging and t-shirts, giving the restaurant visual unity. Menus and posters are printed in offset with CMYK colors, while the t-shirts are printed digitally.

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Voice of Unity Illustration

Voice of Unity

Voice of Unity is a series of illustrations about epidemic prevention and control. Five Chinese idioms are paired with vivid scenes that show different aspects of the response to the outbreak. The illustrations record how many sectors of society treated the crisis seriously and cooperated with prevention work. Each image is drawn with computer graphics software in a national style that highlights Chinese spiritual culture. Strong composition and bold color give the series a clear visual impact. The illustrations are printed at 800 by 800 millimeters.

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Fabric Sustainable Fashion Design

Fabric

Fabric / FAB is an Exhibition of Sustainable Fashion. The main task in developing the exhibition identity was to create a typographic style. The accidental font used in the design Concept reflects one of the central messages of the exhibition – a call to reduce consumption in the fashion sector, a call for reasonable consumption. Graphically, the solution is based on a cross-type of a pair of fonts-strictly grotesque and openwork accidental font, resembling the folds of fabric.

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