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Stacked Glyphs

In Chinese culture, a special type of character called Stacked Character refers to the character formed by overlapped glyphs. Most of these superimposed characters are uncommon and are gradually replaced by commonly used characters nowadays. So that Stack Glyphs constructed the characters using graphical symbols, collected these lost chinese characters.

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Giossa

Giossa is a premium glass bottle for Prosecco sparkling wine. With this design, Gentlebrand pays homage to its territory and the Valdobbiadene hills, part of Unesco. The inspiration comes directly from the vineyard, clearly represented on the bottle with engravings of leaves, branches and grapes that make the bottle unique. Every detail is carefully thought to ensure feasibility from an industrial and technical point of view, without compromising the aesthetics. Giossa name originates from the Venetian dialect and means drop, recalling dew-making grapes shining in the morning sun.

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Big Dream

This visual design pays tribute to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a blend of traditional and modern styles that captures the essence of classic Chinese art. Nuanced brushstrokes showcase the beauty and depth of this art form. The study exhibits a balance of sophistication and cultural significance that is synonymous with Chinese calligraphy, highlighting its relevance to Asian culture. The design language is timeless, merging art and design to connect to the beauty of the past while forging a path towards the future, in celebration of the Asian Pacific American culture.

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Zhi Hou

This is a citrus flavored Chinese Baijiu called "Zhi Hou". In Yunnan, China, people will turn good quality citrus brewing into baijiu. The raw material ratio of this product has reached the level of 20 pounds citrus brewing a pound Baijiu, so it can only be sold in limited quantity.in designed the bottle into a ball shape, and made irregular bulges at the shoulders of the bottle, so that the shape would not look so monotonous. The shape of the bottle cap, designer directly simulated the branches of citrus, when the bottle was put into the orange bag, the bottle cap would be exposed.

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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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