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Japanese Kumano Kodo

There are many old roads in Japan such as Oshu Highway, Tokaido, Sanyo Highway, Kumano Kodo, Nagasaki Highway, and Minoji. With these themes, the designer has created a colorful corporate calendar. A colorful calendar with local festivals and culture as a motif. Among them, Kumano Kodo has been used as a pilgrimage to Kumano since around 908 and is still used by people today. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Chang'an Still

Ancient China's Xi'an was called Chang'an Xi'an. In the Chang'an Still Illustration Series, designers envision the reappearance of the scenes recalling the stories that happened in the magical land in ancient times. Look at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in the distance, feel the city that never sleeps at night, see the magnificent Daming Palace, see the ancient city wall with a sense of story, and there are so many scenic spots people can't wait to see. The illustration series is filled with the infinite charm of Xi'an.

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Doritos Rainbow

To elevate Doritos support of the LGBTQ community, PepsiCo created a purposeful and immersive experience through One Kiss, One Donation. Throughout the campaign the company leveraged TV, digital, and activation opportunities to create a virtual chain of love and respect that swept across social media and into people's hearts. Garnering over 1 million virtual kisses that were converted into a massive donation in support of the community.

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Muse

Muse is an experimental design project studying the musical perception of the human through three installation experiences which provide different ways to experience music. The first is purely sensational using thermo-active material, and the second display the decoded perception of musical spatiality. The last is a translation between music notation and visual forms. People are encouraged to interact with the installations and explore the music visually with their own perception. The main message is that designers should be aware of how perception affects them in practice.

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Fck 2020

What is the purpose of the design? Be functional, beautiful, comfortable, stimulating. And, at times, liberating. Fck 2020 is a self-promotional calendar that celebrates the arrival of 2021 by making fun of the damned 2020. Twelve months of colors, dreams, big and small desires enclosed in a limited edition design object. After a 2020 full of “less”, Fck 2020 Calendar it's a wish for a 2021 full of “more”, a talisman, an invitation to turn the page with a smile.

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Cut and Paste

This project toolkit, Cut and Paste: Preventing Visual Plagiarism, addresses a topic that can affect everyone in the design industry and yet visual plagiarism is a topic that is seldom discussed. This could be due to the ambiguity between taking reference from an image and copying from it. Therefore, what this project proposes is to bring awareness to the grey areas surrounding visual plagiarism and position this at the forefront of conversations around creativity.

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