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Anthropology Chinese Textbook Graphics Design

Anthropology Chinese Textbook

This is a key textbook in American universities, covering research methods, human evolution, and cultural development. The cover blends the letter A with the Chinese character for human, featuring an ape's leg and a modern human's leg to symbolize evolution and East-West fusion. This minimalist design highlights humanity's journey from primitive to modern, emphasizing growth in self-awareness and cultural development.

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What Next Brand Identity

What Next

Final visual outcome is reached by taking a symbol and turning it into a question mark by placing it on a smaller square below (an extracted 1/4 piece of a big square above it) and putting it on a tipping point while remaining in balance, creating a visual sensation of tension with a minimal rearrangement of elements. What Next logo, as well as the name, are in a way an oxymoron, a question and an answer both at once, creating friction. On its own, logo-sign is a simple, deliberate imperfection and a straight-forward communication vessel, striving to create a lot with little effort invested.

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Chinese Style Coffee Packaging And Posters

Chinese Style Coffee

Chinese Style Coffee is a series of illustrations created for a coffee bean brand and applied to packaging and posters. The illustrations combine coffee culture with traditional Chinese culture. Characters from Peking Opera and Chinese swordsmen replace the usual figures of coffee advertising. The poses come from Peking Opera performance and recall the gesture of lifting a coffee cup. Each illustration is drawn in a pencil style with the Procreate application, which keeps a handmade feel and fine detail. The size of each illustration is 21 by 29.7 centimeters.

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Dotline Corporate Identity

Dotline

Dotline has been facing a huge business challenge, which is as same as others in the welfare industry: a shortage of human resources. This identity system design is to inspire a company’s vision to their staff, candidates, and related people. The company’s vision is Social Heroes. Dotline sees all staff who come for help in someone's daily life as heroes. The logo is a graphical symbol of a hero flipping a cloak and moving forward designed from the letters, D+L. As Dotline provides 7 business categories, the logos come in 7 different colors with each business name typed with a brand typeface

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Cloud Living Room Corporate Logo

Cloud Living Room

Cloud Living Room is a corporate logo created for an urban exhibition and reception space in Shenzhen. The mark is centered on the idea of a window, framing a view of the city and its future. The modular form is drawn from the opening movement of windows, and it also recalls the slider components used in technological interactions. The logo is built on the golden ratio and is printed with Pantone spot colors. The design aims to express openness and to connect urban culture with technology.

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Dimension in the Shadows Calendar

Dimension in the Shadows

Dimension in the Shadows is a desk calendar made from black paperboard cut by laser. The set contains twelve monthly cards, each with a different design. Every card is mounted in a slit of a small wooden cube. Dates for Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays are cut through, while weekdays are half cut. Each abstract figure recalls a scene of the changing seasons in Japan. Seen against the light, the sharp outline reads as a paper sculpture. The cast shadow changes shape as the light moves, adding quiet interest to daily life.

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