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Cloud Mountain Type Type Design

Meng Shenhui Type Design Graphic Sunday, 3 August 2025

Cloud Mountain Type

Cloud Mountain Type is a typeface inspired by the cloud and fog mountains of Zhang Jiajie and by ancient Chinese landscape painting. The letterforms combine traditional Chinese cloud and mountain imagery with the structure of the Latin alphabet. Each character is hand drawn and then refined with digital image software, and the typeface can be used at variable sizes. Seen very closely, the details take over and the letter becomes hard to recognize, much as the shape of a mountain cannot be seen from its summit.

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Scent Essential Oil Packaging

Jia-Rong Chang and Shu-Shan Tsai Essential Oil Packaging Packaging Saturday, 2 August 2025

Scent

Scent is an essential oil packaging set created as a travel souvenir inspired by Taiwan. The set holds a glass essential oil bottle with a plastic cap and a diffuser stone made of gypsum and pigment. The oil is dropped onto the diffuser stone, where the liquid spreads along the pattern of the stone while the fragrance is released, linking sight and smell in a single memory. The box is built from a matte plastic outer case, a hardcover carton, sponge and art paper. The intent is to offer an alternative to standard commercial souvenirs.

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Sakakini Fragrance Packaging

Amr Ibrahim Mousa Fragrance Packaging Packaging Friday, 1 August 2025

Sakakini

The magnetic dome on the top of the bottle is the exact dome from the Sakakini Palace with its glorious rococo features as the intent is to remind people of the beauty of this abandoned building in a touchable way. The task was to create a luxurious and sophisticated product, package, and brand. It will promote Egypt's forgotten architecture and help save this rich heritage through the profits of the sales.

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SP Saffron Grotesk Type Specimen

Paul Robb Type Specimen Graphic Thursday, 31 July 2025

SP Saffron Grotesk

Saffron is an elegant contemporary neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface with strong stylistic geometric contrasts, drawing on the aesthetics and the typographic standards of Swiss modernism. The distinctive wide-open stance was designed to give the right visual consistency for branding and communications. This authentic and original typeface represents a shifting contemporary aesthetics. The specimen is divided into sections, with ring binder posters inside the pack.

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PickyPods Packaging for Supplements

Angela Spindler Packaging for Supplements Packaging Wednesday, 30 July 2025

PickyPods

The agency was commissioned to create branding and packaging for a unique supplement range. The collagen and probiotic supplement sachets are formulated to make fine adjustments to bodies according to age, gender and other important factors. Color is the lead player of this project. It needed to feel bold and energetic for its gym going target. Gender symbols were used to shout out to the gender-specific formulas, another difference for this brand.

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Nel Typeface

Jasper Nijssen Typeface Graphic Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Nel

This typeface is developed with the designer in mind. Nel is a modern typeface with lots of options. The Regular version consists of Uppercase and lowercase letters, and quite a few other punctuation marks. The Nel Brickbuild is a playful stencil version and the Nel Dots is a dotted typeface. The Nel also has a light and heavy style with corresponding fun versions. Icons (an all icon font) has been its most recent member. There are nine options in total to mix and match while designing awesome prints, posters, logos, websites, or identities. One family. For designers.

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