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Aquetha

Online gallery that exposes the aged sake as work of art. Aged sake is a minor genre among Japanese sake, and the design team needed to re-propose it to the world in a way that is not bound by the traditional context of Japanese sake. Therefore, they created a design to position Aquetha, which is characterized by ice-temperature aging, as the umbrella for the online gallery Kitamura Sake Exhibition, which views aged sake as works of art, and as the first of the works that will be exhibited and sold there. Based on this concept, they planned and developed bottles that are hand-made by art.

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Banquet Chinese Baijiu

The creativity comes from the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty in China. Minimalism was a characteristic of Song Dynasty aesthetics. Chinese ceramic art reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. The bottle adopts the sky blue color of Ru Kiln in the Song Dynasty, with a minimalist design that conveys the Real artists simplify. Flower arrangement, burn incense, It’s a lifestyles of the literati in the Song Dynasty. And the wine bottle can be reused as a vase for flower arrangement, and the bottle cap can be used as a incense base. The design reflects the elegant life of Song people.

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The Maple 7

The Maple 7 brings together a design merger between the usual take on luxury and experiential elevation, joining and completing this unique experience with Canadian rye and maple, elements subtly translated into the bottle design, creating a bold, striking presence enhanced and completed by minimal details that elevate both bottle and packaging into a disruptive shaping that demarcates itself from the rest of the competition, and using the ribbed base as a disguised highly reflective section, capable of creating a deep optical illusion that elevates the whisky and all of its natural colours.

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Remaking Art

The Brand logo combines R and A into a symmetrical design, echoing a reflection in water and embodying the brand's transformation theme. Its interwoven lines reinforce the mirroring effect and are central to the visual, symbolizing integration. The VI system employed uses lines to shape its image across printed materials, products, and spaces, aiming to convey the values of cultural rejuvenation and artistic reimagination. This visual strategy reflects the brand's dedication to both heritage and innovation, with each design element representing a continual renewal in line.

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Trip of Tea

The two illustrations combine the two routes of tea transportation in China's history, namely the "Tea Road of Ten Thousand Miles" and the "Maritime Silk Road", using horses as envoys and running through the route of the Ten Thousand Li Tea Road. Every time they arrive in a city, local characteristics are integrated, and the image of horses is also different, mainly reflected in the form of horses and the patterns on their saddles. The pattern on the saddle will change according to the urban characteristics of the destination city.

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Bedtime Story

This is a packaging design for a gourmet chocolate series. The graphics on the outer box suggest the distinct taste experience of each chocolate flavor: be it shiny, lively, or mysterious and peculiar. Unlike most chocolate packaging, which uses intuitive food patterns as visual elements to represent the product's flavor, this series conveys the rich associations and emotional shifts brought by taste through peculiar graphics with a sense of story.

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