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Master Ji Gong

It's a movie trailer poster designed for a 2021 Chinese animated fantasy adventure film Master Ji Gong, directed by Liu Zhijiang and Qiao Yu. Inspired by Zhao Zhixin, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, Poetry is like a magic dragon. You can see its head but not its tail, or just a claw and a scale in the cloud, Chinese ink has been extensively used in order to accurately capture the romantic charm of the dragon and the deity in the movie, and relationship between the monk and dragon, the beauty of ambiguity, the connotation deeply rooted in as well.

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Virtual and Reality

Virtual and reality are antonyms. By dismantling the font strokes and using the tools used in the design as the structure of the font, it reflects the conflict between abstraction and reality in the design work process, but will eventually find its own positioning and goal. This is an interpretation of the virtual and real visual image design exhibition of the design creation process.

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The Coffee House

The Coffee House logo shows off the simplicity and hospitality that coffee can offer, in combination with a clean and modern design. The project's color palette also highlights the product's qualities, such as comfort and great flavour, and could make it more appealing to the public eye. The use of the coffee beans as a graphic design element can help the buyer to easily understand what it is.

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Argan Life

The designer was commissioned to develop sustainable packaging for a mixed range of hair and skincare products. The project challenge was to use one size of packaging for three different-sized products. This required some clever internal cardboard engineering to support the products inside the single-size tube. The cardboard tubes were printed offset with black plus two spot colors, a spot UV varnish, and all over satin aqueous varnish. The lid labels were printed in two colors on a self-adhesive stock.

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Changbai Snow

Changbai Mountain White Snow Natural Spring Water is derived from the primitive forests of Changbai Mountain following the melting of the ice and snow covering the northeast regions of China. A visit to this remote water source in Changbai Mountain creates a feeling of a vibrant environment. The designers hope that consumers can immerse themselves in this precious water source, by turning the bottle and observing the agile figures of wild animals and the changing light and shadow of the real-life snow mountain. The designers hope that this product can awaken people's love for nature.

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Rockstar Spotlight Studios

As a part of The Big Game weekend, Rockstar unveiled a new brand experience, the Rockstar Spotlight Studios, and the Unplugged Mood Booth, to wow locals and fans visiting Venice Beach, CA, and introduce them to the new Rockstar Unplugged flavors. The Brand Experience Design Team collaborated with the PepsiCo Music and Culture Team to create a state of the art mobile recording studio, a place that spotlights hustlers, emerging artists, and gamers to create, exchange, and inspire.

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