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Namito

Namito is a virtual art toy image created for commercial use. Namito is a girl with peach-shaped lips, a red mushroom hairstyle and headgear shaped like rabbit ears. She wears a red dress and stands with her hands in her pockets and her eyes closed. Her pouted lips form two hearts and the letter X, a sign of loving the world while refusing what is bad. The character appears in pictures, videos, exhibitions and printed goods. Namito is intended to reduce mental stress and to encourage people to be themselves.

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Moon and Tea for Mid Autumn

Moon and Tea Mid Autumn is a gift box created for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is traditionally celebrated in China in the eighth month of the lunar year. The box is made of natural materials such as bamboo, ceramics and wheat straw. It holds moon cakes with local colored rice and Pu-erh tea. Every part is designed for reuse. The body and the white porcelain cover plate become a tea tray, while the handle serves as a spoon. The inner box can be turned into a moon lantern, and the spherical part of the cover can be used as an incense burner.

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Zhuojiu

Zhuojiu is a packaging design for Chinese liquor. The shape of the bottle is inspired by the axe, an object linked with strength. The outer box is cut from reclaimed wood and shows a crack, as if split by an axe. The container is made of glass. No printing is applied to the box or the bottle, and the product name is engraved with charcoal. The box is 300 millimeters high, 180 millimeters long and 120 millimeters wide. The bottle is 180 millimeters high. The wooden box can be kept and reused later as an ornament.

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Galaxy Trail X

Galaxy Trail X is a Mid-Autumn Festival food packaging design developed with a planetarium. The outer casing is a silver metal box shaped as a triangle, a form chosen for its links to space and communication. Unlike standard flat iron boxes, the top of the casing is raised by one centimetre, expressing the wish to break through the plane and reach for the stars. The inner lining replaces plastic foam with a cardboard structure fixed by interlocking tabs and no glue. The box measures 361 by 312 by 75 millimetres.

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Suprala Font Family

Suprala is a contemporary delicate humanist serif typeface, with beautifully balanced forms, perfect for branding and communications projects. Suprala’s round, elegant, and classically elegant design, supports all major Latin-based languages in twelve styles. True italics advance the aesthetics, bringing energy and making it suitable for modern applications. Each weight includes more than 700 glyphs with stylistic letter and numeral sets and alternative glyphs and discretionary ligatures.

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Aprex Family

Aprex font perfectly balances the minimalist qualities associated with contemporary sans with flair within the width of the counters and comfortable, breathable apertures. Throughout weights and sizes, the typeface has great legibility and good contrast between positive and negative space, making it stunningly versatile. With a seamless combination of contemporary details and classic styles, Aprex draws inspiration from the mid-century humanist and grotesques typefaces. Each weight includes more than 700 glyphs.

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