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Chinese Lion

Designed limited edition car stickers for the Fengxing T5 Evo car launched by Dongfeng Company. The overall design is an artistic treatment of the Chinese lion, using traditional Chinese patterns as the base, and integrating three dimensional geometry, pop and abstract art to make the design younger and attract more young consumers, providing them with more colorful and artistic trends. At the same time, 3 different colors are provided as options.

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SUMMER PALACE TOUR

The design team used 2.5D style to draw the three major architectural clusters in the Summer Palace, covering more than 20 traditional Chinese buildings in total, using black, red, and green colors to create a colorful visual experience. We also introduced the concept of "Small Hand-carry", hoping that visitors can easily play around the Summer Palace, holding the history in the palm of their hands, taking the beauty of the scenery at their fingertips, and carrying good gifts in their hands.

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Wheat Field Moonlight Sonata

The moon, since ancient times, has been the inspiration for poets, a sanctuary for emotions. Music, is the expression of the soul, a flow of emotions. This Wheat Field Moonlight Sonata Mooncake Gift Box, featuring the core elements of "moon" and "music," ingeniously combines the fluidity of music with the serenity of the moon. Simultaneously, it incorporates the vitality and hope of the wheat field, allowing taste, vision, and hearing to share in the feast.

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Moutai 1935

The integration of traditional Chinese paintings and a distinctive color palette sets this packaging apart. The red and gold colourway builds a strong connection with Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese genre paintings in relief encircle the bottle, exuding artistic elegance. This design also makes the previously intangible history and culture behind Chinese distilled spirits visible, positioning Moutai 1935 as a gift with deep cultural significance for global recipients. When savoring Moutai 1935, one will be immersed in an Oriental experience that engages taste, touch, and spirit.

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Forty-Nine Union Liquor

This ensemble features the white porcelain pot, hailing from the city in China, the esteemed birthplace of porcelain craftsmanship. Accompanied by the divider adorned with the motif from the illustrious Shang Dynasty, along with four shot glasses and the brush pot crafted from blue and white underglaze porcelain. They are elegantly presented within the spacious wooden box. Each element serves as a poignant representation of Chinese cultural ethos, encapsulating enduring principles of exploration, resilience and the preservation of heritage ingenuity.

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Sabbioni Branding

Grafiche Sabbioni required a new brand position to celebrate the firm's 60th year anniversary. Salt&Pepper worked with the company to create modern visual languages to promote this important milestone, highlighting the brand’s capabilities in sustainability in the box and traditional print processes. Salt&Pepper created an energetic, robust, and positive branding system, creating a line of 100 percent sustainable, using water-based inks and minimal paper waste to promote the company's core values.

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