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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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Florid Sans

Florid Sans typeface perfectly balances minimalist quality with a combination of contemporary details and classic styles. The font family is geometric in nature with humanist quality rooted in the Swiss tradition, designed with comfortable, breathable apertures that make it stunningly versatile. Each weight includes more than 700 glyphs with stylistic letter and numeral sets and alternative glyphs and discretionary ligatures.

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Beijing Happy Valley

The two illustrations attempt to combine multiple styles such as New Chinese style and Pop. The project has too many elements and designers hope to put these elements in a reasonable and harmonious way within the same visual system. The other design style is bolder with more vivid color contrast on top of ensuring the completeness of the picture bringing greater visual impact to people. Designers made many attempts to visualize and reshape the two classic mythological stories of Qi Tian Da Sheng and Nezha Naohai and integrate them together.

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Floating Life

Floating Life is a series of illustrated posters about human emotions and personalities. The title refers to the ancient Lao-Zhuang school, which viewed life in the world as empty and described it as a floating life. The illustrations shape each character so that thoughts appear on the surface of the figure and not only in the mind. Each poster is joined by a written explanation of the emotion shown. The aim is to help viewers notice the details of the work and recognize emotions that occur in everyday life.

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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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Ecohiny

Can a toilet paper brand be cool and fun? EcoHiny is 100% organic bamboo, FSC certified and as eco-friendly as possible. The brand symbol is a peach, colors and typeface choices reflect the fun, natural and the soft nature of the product. Aim was to differentiate the brand from others on the market by using a unique color palette. Deep blueish green hue, paired with peach, gives a playful personality, also conveys a sense of eco-friendliness and sustainability. These design choices communicate with the target customer group instantly and creates a bond between the brand and the customer.

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