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

 

Before the Midnight Hour

A series of black and white illustrations commissioned by Marc Krusin and featuring his most prominent furniture designs for Knoll and Desalto. Inspired by comics and noir cinema, the project breaks the conventions of furniture illustration by bringing narrative to the scenes, use of exaggerated perspective and a moody noir aesthetic. The lack of human presence and scattered objects add an element of mystery and suspense to the story, while the protagonist is revealed in a surprise ending. All images were drawn digitally in Adobe Photoshop using Wacom Cintiq tablet.

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Shape Grammars

Shape Grammars is a study on generative shapes, asking: how can unique pieces be mass produced? Jannis Maroscheck designed and programmed 12 production systems that draw an unlimited number of individual graphic shapes. The result is a systematic catalog, a kind of dictionary of shapes, for browsing forms and their formulas. Accumulating 150.000 shapes, sorted from the strictly geometric to the organically free, the book is a useful manual for Designers, Architects and everybody working with shapes, showing the nature of infinite graphic variation through automated design.

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This is an electronic music album with the theme of human and philosophy, mind and body. As the theme of this design, the visual combines classical aesthetics, philosophy and modern electronic music. The various natural elements are combined into a chaotic image, the classical style is boldly used, and then the realistic images are matched to create the final scheme.

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Biblioteche di Roma

A new brand and a new identity for Istituzione Sistema Biblioteche di Roma to reflect the open and accessible essence of Rome's public libraries network. In this new identity the book, already familiar from the historic logo represented by a closed book resting on its side, it is now an open book, a symbol of accessibility. The identity of Biblioteche, in all its applications, is linked to the presence of the institutional brand Roma Culture of the Department for Cultural Growth of the Municipality of Rome which is a stakeholder in Biblioteche system.

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Typeface

Typeface is a calendar designed around the concept of the typeface. The set contains four sheets, consisting of the months from January to December, punched out in an original typeface. You can assemble the sheets into calendar units that each display three months of the year. Quality designs have the power to modify space and transform the minds of its users. They offer comfort of seeing, holding and using. They are imbued with lightness and an element of surprise, enriching space.

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Intangible Heritage

Intangible cultural heritage is deeply rooted in ethnic people. Pipa art, Longquan celadon and Zigong Lantern Festival are important representatives of China's intangible cultural heritage. Drawing a series of illustrations through computer technology creatively inherits and displays the essence of traditional culture, and brings intangible heritage into the public's field of vision. The combination of computer technology and intangible cultural heritage has the advantages of creativity and application. The works are publicized and inherited in a way that conforms to modern aesthetics.

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