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Holiday Gift Set Packaging

Holiday Gift Set

Holiday Gift Set is a packaging design for a collection of consumable holiday gifts. The set contains an 80 g chocolate bar, a 40 g herbal tea package, a 200 g jar of natural honey and a 140 g cinnamon scented candle. The illustrations are inspired by Zemyna, the Lithuanian earth goddess, shown here as a modern figure wearing sneakers and headphones. The long white hair of the goddess recalls snow and familiar festive images. A muted natural colour palette reflects the ingredients. Offset, flexography and digital printing are used.

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Cells Poster

Cells

On July 19, 2017, PIY built a small building in Melbourne, Australia. It is a small castle assembled of 761 components, and they named it "Cells". The nodes are designed as the hand-turned thread tenon and straight tenon, which is summarized as "East Tenon & West Mortise". You will find their products, including variable shelves, study and shoe racks, etc., all of which are broken up and reassembled into an organism. And then, you will feel their desire to grow freely.

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Songhua River Rice Package

Songhua River

Songhua River Rice, is a high-end rice product under SOURCEAGE Food Group. As the traditional Chinese festival - the Spring Festival approaching, they design through a beautifully packaged rice product as gifts to customers of the Spring Festival gifts, so the overall design needs to echo the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, highlighting the traditional Chinese cultural elements and auspicious good meaning.

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Reincarnation Of Text Font Design

Reincarnation Of Text

Text of Cycle is a typeface design that explores the relationship between people and artificial intelligence. The concept proposes that people created artificial intelligence, and that artificial intelligence may in turn create people, making words the link between both. The letterforms follow a method of deconstruction, combining shapes taken from science fiction films and modern machinery. Each character was modelled in Rhinoceros 7 and rendered in KeyShot 8. The result reflects the cycle of language and knowledge.

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HanKkeut Brand Identity

HanKkeut

HanKkeut is a brand identity for a series of grade school textbooks developed through collaboration between students and teachers. The brand objective is an all-in-one connection in learning. The cover graphic uses a connected stroke that emanates from the brand identity image to express a sense of ascension. The same stroke is applied to all HanKkeut books to create a consistent visual feature. Vivid colors, embossed textures and holographic stickers are used on the covers. Different age levels are distinguished by different cover colors.

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In Bag On Desk Calendar

In Bag On Desk

In Bag On Desk is a promotional calendar created for goo, an Internet portal site that originated in Japan. The design is an updated version of a desk calendar with pockets. In Bag On Desk can be used in two ways, as a notebook carried in a bag and as a desk calendar. A monthly calendar, memo paper and a pocket for receipts and similar papers are included. The calendar stands on a desk when the cover paper is fastened with a magnet. The size is 195 by 145 by 10 millimeters. Detailed printing and processing technologies were used.

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