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Sean Coffee Gift Box Design

Xue Wei Chen Gift Box Design Packaging Saturday, 24 January 2026

Sean Coffee

Sean Coffee is a gift box designed for a Taiwanese coffee brand. The package consists of a black outer box, an inner lining and illustrated cards. The illustration shows a coffee expert roasting beans in a forest, in a warm fluorescent orange tone that recalls ripe coffee cherries. Seven Pantone inks and layered printing are used, together with foil stamping and embossing. The inner cards can be replaced according to different themes, which keeps the outer box in use, lowers printing costs and reduces the carbon footprint.

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Cut and Paste Branding

Lisa Winstanley Branding Graphic Friday, 23 January 2026

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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Gogoon Alcoholic Beverage Packaging

Wen Liu Alcoholic Beverage Packaging Packaging Thursday, 22 January 2026

Gogoon

Gogoon is a bottle and packaging design for baijiu, a Chinese distilled spirit. The bottle has a simple cylindrical form that expresses purity. The shoulder carries a hammer pattern that refers to careful craftsmanship. The body is finished with a fine daylight grain texture that reflects light across the surface. The cap combines metal, leather grain and wood, giving a plain shape a rich texture. The bottle measures 75 mm in width, 75 mm in depth and 260 mm in height. The design presents baijiu in a light luxury style for a new group of consumers.

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Woonwaard Rebranding

Ruud Winder Rebranding Graphic Wednesday, 21 January 2026

Woonwaard

Woonwaard is a corporate identity created for one of the largest housing associations in the Netherlands. The identity is modern yet serious, and it conveys calmness and serenity. The design represents the diversity of the tenants and the positive aspects of renting. Each application is given a unique set of circles, taken from a basic design of more than 250 circles in different compositions and colors. The printed media use FSC certified paper with six Pantone colors plus black. Digital applications reduce the use of paper.

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Math Alive Brand Identity

VISANG Brand Identity Graphic Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Math Alive

Dynamic graphic motifs enrich the learning effect of math in the blended learning environment. Parabolic graphs from mathematics inspired the logo design. Letter A and V are connected with a continuous line, demonstrating the interaction between an educator and a student. It conveys the message that Math Alive guides users to become whiz kids in math. The key visuals represent the transformation of abstract math concepts into three-dimensional graphics. The challenge was to balance the fun and engaging setting for the target audience with professionalism as an educational technology brand.

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Botchan Ressha Packaging

Yuta Takahashi Packaging Packaging Monday, 19 January 2026

Botchan Ressha

Miltos Botchan Ressha is a chocolate package created for a collaboration between a locomotive with more than 130 years of history and a chocolatier. The box is made of deep green fine paper, a color that refers to the train livery and to matcha chocolate. The locomotive is reproduced with matte black foil stamping, based on photographs of the actual train. The logo and the product name are stamped with matt gold foil. The chocolate is engraved with a route map drawn as a maze. An attached card explains each stop and the route.

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