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DIY Spice Blends by Chef Heidi

Unilever Food Solutions tasked resident Chef Heidi Heckmann (Regional Customer Chef, Cape Town) to create 11 unique Spice Blends recipes using the Robertsons Spice Range. As part of “Our Journey, Your Discovery” campaign the idea was to create unique images and designs using these ingredients for a fun Facebook campaign. Each week Chef Heidi’s unique Spice Blends was posted as media-rich Facebook Canvas Posts. Each of these recipes is also available for iPad download at the UFS.com website.

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Feira do Alvarinho

Feira do Alvarinho is an annual wine party that takes place in Moncao, in Portugal. To communicate the event, it was created an ancient and fictional kingdom. With own name and civilization, The Kingdom of Alvarinho, designated so because Moncao is known as the cradle of Alvarinho wine, was inspired in the real history, places, iconic people and legends of Moncao. The biggest challenge of this project was to carry the real story of the territory into the character design.

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Mitsubishi eK X (Cross)

eK X is a crossover model that incorporates the SUV taste distinctive to Mitsubishi Motors. Its design embodies Mitsubishi’s brand message Drive your Ambition and powerful driving performance with low fuel consumption is featured. This vehicle was developed to reflect the target customers insights wanting to challenge something new with an inquiring mind. This brochure was designed to communicate special fascination of eK X, a new crossover SUV variant kei car completely.

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Silk Royalty

The objective of the branding process is to place the brand in the high-end category by taking a look and a feel of adapting to the global trends in makeup and skin care. Elegant in its interior and exterior, offering clients a luxurious getaway to retreat to self care leaving renewed. Successfully communicating the experience to the consumers was embedded in the design process. Therefore, Alharir Salon has been developed, expressing femininity, visual elements, opulent colors and textures with attention to the fine details to add more confidence and comfort.

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Monk Font

Monk seeks a balance between the openness and legibility of humanist sans serifs and a more regularized character of the square sans serif. Although originally designed as a Latin typeface it was decided early on that it needed a wider dialogue to include an Arabic version. Both Latin and Arabic design us the same rationale and the idea of shared geometry. The strength of the parallel design process allows the two languages to have balanced harmony and grace. Both Arabic and Latin work seamlessly together having shared counters, stem thickness, and curved forms.

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Ten

The design is a campaign for Kingston University's Fashion show event. The photography for this campaign is done by creating 'X' marks by on a model's body which indicates the symbolism of clothes on one's body. 'X' also indicates the tenth anniversary of the fashion school of Kingston university. E-vite was sent to all the guests and posters and brochures were displayed in the Design Museum of London.

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