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Tea and Tea Branding

Tea and Tea

Tea and Tea is a Chinese drink brand whose marketing strategy centers around Chinese tea latte. The logo consists of the lettering Tea and Tea and the Arabic numeral 2, which dominates the trademark and has a distinctive appearance due to the integration of a tea leaf. In combination with a clear, eye-catching color scheme and a straightforward stylistic idiom that informs, for instance, the packaging design and retail displays, Tea and Tea’s visual appearance achieves high brand recognition.

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Inner Peace Multifunctional Poster

Inner Peace

This poster was designed for the musician Cho-Liang Lin and his Taipei Music Academy and Festival. Many people have suffered a lot during Covid-19, and many need to find inner peace and calm. Therefore, Te-Sian, Shih created an abstract peace dove as the main visual using lines. She used blue as the background color and lines to represent how music can heal the heart, allowing people to feel as if they are in a magnificent ocean when they listen to music.

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Speech Bubbie  Type Design

Speech Bubbie

Speech Bubbie is a typeface designed for Latin letters and Chinese characters. The speech bubble is a graphic convention used in comic book dialogue, and letterforms also suggest emotion in writing. The connection between these two graphic elements led to a new structure for letters and characters based on the comic book form. Strokes are simplified into generic speech bubble shapes, while still following the direction of the original strokes, so readability is preserved. The typeface was first drawn by hand and then produced with vector software.

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Victor Weiss Visual Identity

Victor Weiss

Victor Weiss is a visual identity created for a design studio. The logo is a monogram that combines the letters V and W in an outlined serif style. The brand pattern was formed by taking the letters of the slogan Be Exclusive and spreading them in an organic, almost random order, mixing outlined and filled letters. Printed items include business cards and postal pieces on black paper, produced by letterpress with hot stamping and closed with a wax seal. The identity was developed to express sophistication and exclusivity.

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Pattern Play Playing Cards Calendar

Pattern Play

Pattern Play is a set of playing cards and a calendar designed to bring color into daily life. The playing cards carry 54 unique illustrations in place of standard suits. The court cards are inspired by kaleidoscopes, while the number cards show irregular patterns and shapes. The cards are printed on 310 gsm waterproof black core stock with a matte finish and rounded corners. The calendar enlarges 12 of the artworks on 250 gsm specialty paper with a tear-off line, so each sheet can also be used as a poster. The design aims to add positivity to ordinary days.

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Sparrow Branding Corporate Identity

Sparrow Branding

Sparrow Branding is a corporate identity created for a Tokyo-based advertising production company founded in 2020. The identity covers the logo, the main visuals and the stationery. A sparrow, the origin of the company name, is shown with a pine tree as the symbol tree. The concept comes from a story in which a pine tree protects a sparrow from all harm. Real pine branches, arranged by a flower arrangement artist, and a realistic sparrow model were photographed instead of using computer graphics. The visual tone is strong and serious rather than cute.

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Inspiration Season Main Vision

Inspiration Season

Inspiration Season is the main visual design for a design forum held at an urban creative park in Hangzhou. The park was converted from a former chemical fibre factory, and blue wool yarn was chosen to link the past and the present of the buildings. The static poster measures 841 by 594 millimetres, while the motion poster lasts ten seconds in a vertical format. Real hanging wool was filmed in 4K with a camera and slide rails, then edited, colour graded and composed. The shaking of the yarn expresses the moment of inspiration.

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Dalian Seafood Logo and Brand

Dalian Seafood

Dalian Seafood is a brand identity and packaging design for ready-to-eat marine products. The logo and its derivative graphics are applied to a single package, a long pull-out gift box holding three small boxes, and packaging cans. Abstract illustrations are drawn from the features of different sea creatures and arranged in repeated and staggered layouts. Bright color contrasts give the series a fresh appearance. The packaging is digitally printed with a matte finish on recyclable materials, and the pull-out gift box is easy to open.

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Second Hand Life Poster

Second Hand Life

Second Hand Life is a poster series about the way people receive fragmented information. The series contains twenty A3 posters, arranged to form one main visual, and is accompanied by a mounted and bound book. Language is turned into visual graphics through binary code, where the symbols one and zero also stand for true and false in logical operations. This link reflects how judgement is shaped by the information that is accepted. The posters and the book ask for closer attention to a social issue, because a fragmented view of information can replace a complete one.

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Miga Brand Design

Miga

Miga is a brand identity design developed for an electronic cigarette brand. The updated identity refines the typeface and unifies the logo, giving an immediate brand impression. For the Latin letters, stroke ratios and corner angles are adjusted so the logo relates closely to a smile symbol and recalls the outline of melon vines. For the Chinese characters, strokes are combined with the same symbols and the spacing is regulated, producing rounded and readable forms. The vector logo can be printed at any size and used on light or dark backgrounds.

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The Zlin Region Brand and Visual Identity

The Zlin Region

The Zlin Region is a brand and visual identity created for a region in the Czech Republic. The identity is based on a square, and the four corners represent the four historical districts of the region. The square frames the design and also marks where change happens, as forms and letters break out beyond its edges. The colours are black, white, dark yellow and light yellow, and yellow refers to the traditional colour of Zlin. The identity expresses the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of the region and its people.

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It Is In Your Genes Dynamic Identity

It Is In Your Genes

This brand identity was created for a genotyping service, by which predisposition to possible genetic diseases can be detected. Just like the DNA structure, the design concept was also built upon a system of codes, namely specially designed Morse codes representing the letters of alphabet. Any word can be visualized this way, turning a static logo into a dynamic identity. The logo, which is the name of the Client written by the codes, takes the double-helical structure shape of the DNA. This is how the business of the Client is reflected both conceptually and visually in the identity.

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