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The Storyteller

The Storyteller goal is to become an augmented immersive and personal, intimist experience, through a vessel that must be held in one’s hand, fully appreciated upon glancing and handling, feeling the frosted and clear textures, the gold trims and knurl, and ultimately the obsidian details of the closure, in what is a fully sensorial and experiential bottle design. All the remaining accessories are hidden in plain sight, and only accessible from different axis of the box, only to reveal the ultimate immersive experience by fully exploring the secrets The Storyteller has to offer.

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Liang Bai Kai

Liang Bai Kai is a glass bottle designed for cooled boiled drinking water. The name refers to boiled water that has cooled, a drink long common in China. The bottle carries no label. Instead, artwork from the Song dynasty painting Riverside Scene from Tsingming is repainted and applied to the glass by heat transfer printing. The image is divided across twelve bottles, representing the twelve traditional hours. The glass surface adds gloss and texture. Each bottle measures 313 millimeters in height and 76.5 millimeters in diameter.

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Time Slide

This design presents time as a process of accumulation rather than disappearance. Each day leaves a trace, and each month becomes part of a larger visual sequence. Instead of turning pages, the user removes and inserts monthly sheets like slides in a projector. This action creates a clear rhythm of transition. The calendar encourages people to experience time not as something that is lost, but as something that builds gradually in layers.

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School Admissions

ABA Typographic Posters is an advertising campaign created for an arts university. Large-format typographic posters are printed and installed in public urban locations, where bold layouts and color systems attract attention. Each poster works as a marker for augmented reality content, which viewers reach by scanning the printed image with a smartphone. The augmented reality layer adds animated and interactive material that extends the printed message. The campaign presents art education to prospective students in a direct and participatory way.

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Mountain River Sage

Mountain River and Sage is a gift set packaging design for baijiu, a Chinese distilled spirit. The outer sleeve is made of matte white art paper with a minimalist bronze foil stamped pattern. Inside, a codex style box of engineered wood with oak veneer opens like a book. The inner lid unfolds into a panoramic illustration of Mount Tai and the Yellow River, printed on textured paper, framing three bottles and a certificate. The design draws on the cultural geography of Shandong Province. A minimalist and modern approach replaces the retro styling common in liquor packaging.

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Wudang Blessing

Wudang Blessing is a visual identity system created for a cultural tourism brand. The system reinterprets Taoist cultural figures, including Zhenwu Emperor, the Five Gods of Wealth, Fu Lu Shou and the Taizi Slope study blessing, in a contemporary illustrated style. Typography integrates mountain curves into the strokes. Patterns are modular, and vector graphics scale from business cards to billboards. Two color modes are provided, CMYK for print and RGB for screens. The unified system replaces scattered images and supports products, packaging and digital media.

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