Graphic

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Brand: Anja Zambelli Colak Design Type: Branding Category: Graphic

Benin

Benin is a brand identity created for a family-run coffee company with more than 30 years of experience. The identity supports the expansion of the coffee shop business into a franchise model. A smiling Cherub icon serves as the central symbol, referring to the Renaissance and to Italy, the homeland of premium coffee. Bright pink, blue, yellow and red tones and a texture of angelic clouds carry a cheerful mood. To-go cups and paper bags are printed on natural paper with CMYK offset, while metal tins preserve coffee quality.

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Brand: Yiwen Tu Design Type: Branding Category: Graphic

Jie Yi Couture

Jie Yi Couture is a brand identity created for a couture studio in Shanghai. The Chinese character Jie means to solve and to deconstruct, while Yi means one, unity and consistency. The logo is built with Chinese typography, and parts of the characters are replaced with symbols of a mannequin and scissors. Pattern-making sketches form the main visual element, and their lines, curves and notes create a detailed pattern. The identity is applied to packaging offered in several sizes. The design conveys craftsmanship and a semi-custom tailoring service.

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Brand: Shenfan Lan Design Type: Graphic Packaging Category: Graphic

Soda Grocery

Soda Grocery is a packaging design for souvenir food sold to visitors in Macau. The design language is drawn from firecracker packaging produced in Macau during the twentieth century. Images of four women taken from the historical packaging are redrawn as contemporary illustrations and printed in bold colors. Four food packages carry the illustrations, and each box measures 185 by 145 by 55 millimeters. The printed wrapping paper and inner labels are finished with embossing, ultraviolet coating, bronzing and die cutting. The design keeps regional character while meeting modern taste.

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Brand: Yoske Mitsui Design Type: Visual Identity Program Category: Graphic

Public Health Beyond Borders

Public Health Beyond Borders is a visual identity program created for a group of students and faculty that addresses health needs in partnering communities. The mark uses five colors. Green and blue reflect a global outlook, while red, yellow and black refer to the University of Maryland origins of the founding chapter. A circle at the center represents unity and partnership. The wordmark is matched to the university primary typefaces. The logo is simple, scalable and modular, and it works in one color and at many sizes in print and digital media.

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Brand: Mengyu Cao Design Type: Typography Category: Graphic

Chinese Zodiac

The Chinese Zodiac typography includes 12 characters. Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. It combines Chinese calligraphy and Chinese traditional watercolor drawing. With design thinking, it breaks the original calligraphy forms and adds creative drawings to it harmoniously to show the meaning of each character within itself. Chinese characters always look like complicated drawings to people who don't know Chinese. The purpose of this project is to make the Chinese characters understandable to everyone to spread Chinese culture.

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Brand: Miao Jin Tang Design Type: Office Guide Category: Graphic

Yin Cheng Center

Yincheng Inc Center Office is a wayfinding signage system created for an office building in Nanjing, China. The design extracts the straight lines of the high-rise facade and repeats them as black vertical stripes that match the grid pattern of the interior walls. The signs are made of stainless steel with baking paint and milled grooves, and measure 1500 by 50 by 20 millimeters. Flat lettering is applied in black and white, while cut-out lettering uses imitation antique copper. Elements and sizes are reduced to emphasize function.

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Brand: Lingguang Chen Design Type: Logo and Brand Design Category: Graphic

Yudong CUN

Yudong CUN is a mascot design created for Yudong village, a farmers' painting village in China. The mascot is based on the fish figure that is characteristic of the village. The fish is drawn as a simple cartoon character and is combined with local farmers' painting motifs and with the flag symbols of countries around the world. The result is a colorful set of images that joins local culture with an international visual style. The mascot has no fixed size and can be produced as a static or animated graphic.

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Brand: Xiner Zheng Design Type: Corporate Identity Rebranding Category: Graphic

Xphere

Xphere is a corporate identity design created for the brand Rongxing. The name Xphere is derived from the Chinese brand name Rongxing, which means prosperous sphere. The identity joins the meaning of the Chinese name with the English name in one visual language. The mark is inspired by the shapes of a star, and a matching cut is applied to both the English and the Chinese logo marks. Bold colors and strong visuals highlight the high-end product line. Printed items use matte heavy paper, and the business card and the thank you card carry an embossed logo.

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Brand: Cheng Xiangsheng Design Type: Emoji Category: Graphic

Mia

Emoji is a new design based on the popularity of mobile devices; it is to meet people's new needs for communication. Emoji, like any design branch, needs to take into account both practicality and beauty. "Mia" meets this requirement. It conveys meanings that cannot be expressed by words through a lovely image, thus enriching communication. In order to adapt to the progress of society, design is developed, and Emoji is a part of the development, which pushes the boundaries of design one step further.

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Brand: Ching-Fa Lung Design Type: Festival Identity System Category: Graphic

SciFest Los Angeles

SciFest Los Angeles is a festival identity system created for a hypothetical eight-day film festival devoted to science fiction movies. The program curates classic science fiction films from 1970 to 2017, covering sub-genres such as action, animation and mystery. A dimensional typeface, inspired by scenes of four dimensions, serves as the main visual language across all applications. The posters work with augmented reality, so viewers can explore their depth. The app and website interfaces use kinetic three-dimensional graphics.

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Brand: Kozo Asada Design Type: Illustration Category: Graphic

Cats In The Bag

Cats In The Bag is a series of framed illustrations that show cats resting inside bags. Each artwork depicts a simple scene from daily life with a cat. The series presents long-haired, short-haired and hairless cats, paired with bags of different shapes. The illustrations are painted digitally and then printed on acrylic plates by silk screen. Several printed plates are stacked in a custom frame, with paper and a cutting sheet placed at the back, so the image appears three-dimensional when the viewing angle shifts. Each square piece measures 422 by 422 millimeters.

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Brand: Salvita Bingelyte Design Type: Brand Identity Category: Graphic

Thirty Years Anniversary

Thirty Years Anniversary is a brand identity created to mark thirty years of restored diplomatic relations between Lithuania and Germany. The emblem highlights the number thirty and combines the two digits with the colors of the flag of each country. In larger applications the zero is cropped, so the layout stays clear, the text remains readable and the shape works as a graphic element. On a mug, the handle completes the cropped zero. Colored marks on a white background improve visibility. The identity frames public events and communication.

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