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Yin Cheng Center Office Guide

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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Yudong CUN Logo and Brand Design

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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Tiny Little World Kids Illustration

Tiny Little World

One of the things that served as the main inspiration behind the making of these designs is the variety of patterns, textures, and colors found in many different cultures around the world, as well as the wildlife usually found in these nations. It is a project that will allow the artist to continue expanding it for years to come, adding more and more nations. This project focuses on the importance of teaching children about cultural awareness. The use of vibrant colors and different shapes and patterns were essential to achieving the goal of paying homage to these nations and their traditions.

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SETMA Brand Design Logotype

SETMA Brand Design

The SETMA, Municipal’s Tourism and Environment Secretariat of Jijoca de Jericoacoara, brand represents the harmonious landscape and natural wonders of the city, from the Blue Lagoon, the Serrote, the Pierced Stone, the Sea and the iconic Sunset on the Dunes. The designer unified all these elements in a harmonious form with the use of sine waves curved elements, which represent the frequency, balance and equilibrium between all the natural beauty and experience the city provides, deemed beautiful by their residents and many visitors around the world.

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Kalitva Product Catalog

Kalitva

The catalog was created for Russian manufacturer of cooking utensils. As a result of detailed familiarization and comparative analysis of all collections, the most suitable spices, herbs and vegetables were selected, which complemented the design of the catalog and highlighted the advantages of each collection. The main cover of the catalog's made with a cutting in the form of a frying pan, through which the color photo of the collection shows. The handles of the frying pan and pots on the second cover are varnished by soft-touch laque, imitating the actual coverage of these handles.

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Carimbo Stamp

Carimbo

A stamp to identify its owner and his work and take it everywhere. At first, the intention was to find a way of approaching the offline world. Something like a business card, only classier, cheaper and environment friendly. So a stamp (carimbo) was the choice. A signature. Its inner part represents Igor's confusing and beautiful creative process, while the round frame wraps it up in fluidity and gives it purpose. These two combined build a texture the ink can flow through, providing the perfect support to his personal brand. At last, Minion Pro gracefully writes the contact information.

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Pagoda Corporate Identity

Pagoda

Pagoda is a corporate identity created for a Chinese fruit company. The identity is built around two monkey mascots, drawn first as pencil drafts and then developed with digital design software. Monkeys were chosen because they are linked with fruit in Chinese culture, where they also symbolise wisdom and courage. The mascots dance through the four seasons, and the flowers around them change with each mood. The colours refer to flowers, seasons and nature. Printing applies ultraviolet coating and hot stamping. The aim is to present Asian culture with respect for natural life.

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The Wild Corporate Identity

The Wild

This is a brand design for a new luxury resort, built on top of Huangbai mountain in Hunan Province. The aim of this project is to combine traditional Chinese aesthetic with Western simplicity into branding design. The design team extracted the rich characteristics of animals and plants in Huangbai mountain and designed a crane shape logo using traditional Chinese painting technique, the feather of cranes had been simplified into a design pattern. This basic pattern can form all kinds of animals and plants(which exist in the mountain), and made all the design elements looks harmonious.

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Naked Castle Visual Signage System

Naked Castle

Naked Castle is a signage system designed for a historic castle hotel on Moganshan. The design pairs a coat of arms with Art Deco lettering, and the geometric figures and lines follow proportions close to the golden ratio. British elements such as a hoof, a shield and a streamer are merged in the coat of arms, while icons of a king and a queen wearing crowns appear on the signs. The coat of arms was cast in low melting point metal, then hand polished and colored. The signs use forged iron and local wood to resist the outdoor mountain climate.

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Event Visual Identity

Event

An exhibition that takes up a popular character called Sanzo Hoshi from a completely different perspective. Therefore, designers tried a new approach to visual design. It has a three-dimensional composition with a depth that makes the painting hollow with the silhouette of a person.While appealing that Xuanzui and Sanzo Hoshi are the same people, designers made a strategy to have the silhouette remember the iconic image.

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Terark Visual Identity Design

Terark

Terark is a visual identity designed for a technology company that provides big data processing services. The design is based on a dot matrix combined with several gradient colors. Smoothly connected dots form the letter T, the first letter of the company name. Multiple gradient shaders were supplied, so the identity can be adapted to many uses. A custom font and a dot pattern were also delivered for use in print and other materials. The identity was applied to brochures, yearbooks, name cards and water bottles.

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Institution Logo

Institution

Caseer Institution is a logo created for the Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research at the University of Tokyo. The center studies teaching practice, education content and school development policy, and works to solve practical problems in schools. The logo is based on a symbol of expansion. The form refers to the ginkgo leaf, a shared emblem of the University of Tokyo and its affiliated schools. The outward spread of the leaf also stands for the growth of understanding, perspective and curiosity gained through education and research.

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