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

 

Giossa

Giossa is a premium glass bottle for Prosecco sparkling wine. With this design, Gentlebrand pays homage to its territory and the Valdobbiadene hills, part of Unesco. The inspiration comes directly from the vineyard, clearly represented on the bottle with engravings of leaves, branches and grapes that make the bottle unique. Every detail is carefully thought to ensure feasibility from an industrial and technical point of view, without compromising the aesthetics. Giossa name originates from the Venetian dialect and means drop, recalling dew-making grapes shining in the morning sun.

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Big Dream

This visual design pays tribute to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a blend of traditional and modern styles that captures the essence of classic Chinese art. Nuanced brushstrokes showcase the beauty and depth of this art form. The study exhibits a balance of sophistication and cultural significance that is synonymous with Chinese calligraphy, highlighting its relevance to Asian culture. The design language is timeless, merging art and design to connect to the beauty of the past while forging a path towards the future, in celebration of the Asian Pacific American culture.

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Zhi Hou

This is a citrus flavored Chinese Baijiu called "Zhi Hou". In Yunnan, China, people will turn good quality citrus brewing into baijiu. The raw material ratio of this product has reached the level of 20 pounds citrus brewing a pound Baijiu, so it can only be sold in limited quantity.in designed the bottle into a ball shape, and made irregular bulges at the shoulders of the bottle, so that the shape would not look so monotonous. The shape of the bottle cap, designer directly simulated the branches of citrus, when the bottle was put into the orange bag, the bottle cap would be exposed.

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Master Ji Gong

Master Ji Gong is a trailer poster for a Chinese animated fantasy adventure film of the same name. The poster measures 750 by 1050 millimetres. Chinese ink and traditional Chinese elements are used to create a poetic and mysterious eastern atmosphere. The dragon and the monk, shown with a red kasaya, a patchwork outer vestment and a palm-leaf fan, are figures from the film and were rendered with three-dimensional software. The ink was made with water and tested on rice paper, hard paper and cloth to compare textures. All parts were then combined digitally.

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Virtual and Reality

Virtual and Reality is a visual image design exhibition that interprets the process of design creation. The title joins two opposite words to reflect the conflict between abstraction and reality. Font strokes are dismantled, and the tools used in design form the structure of the letters. The series includes posters, cards, notebooks, stationery, direct mail and packaging. All items are printed in two special colors, and the applied methods include embossing, local glazing and origami folding. The exhibition was shown in Tainan, Taipei and Kaohsiung.

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The Coffee House

The Coffee House is a packaging and branding concept for a coffee brand. The design expresses the simplicity and hospitality that coffee can offer through a clean and modern visual language. Coffee beans are used as a graphic element, helping buyers to quickly understand the content of the package. The color palette highlights qualities such as comfort and flavor. The products are presented on can mockups that suggest materials suited to the segment. The concept was developed digitally as a study of simple coffee packaging.

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