Design Pictorial

Design Pictorial

Design Pictorial featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

B. League All-Star Game 2023

B. League is Japan's premier basketball league. Op art is an abstract painting calculated to create a special visual effect. Each square depicts a visual image related to basketball, as well as buildings and landmarks that symbolize Mito, the host city. The animation is so dynamic that the eye cannot keep up. The audience was drawn into an exciting immersive experience. The level of basketball in Japan has evolved dramatically in recent years, and the league has seen a dramatic increase in attendance, as well as the demand for high quality in key art and venue production.

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Ancora

Ancora is a brand store that sells fountain pens and stationaries. Nowadays, digitalization and information and communication technology have been progressing rapidly. On the other hand, Ancora focuses on the revival of analog in-person communication. Ancora reconsiders these values in which their way of writing, drawing from the heart provides joy that also delivers a special experience such as customizable fountain pens that can be combined in a myriad of ways; and ink blending using a cocktail shaker.

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Lalique

Conceptual Calendar for French premium glass manufacture Lalique. Connecting the world of unique handmade glass production by a premium manufacturer and the world that is entirely handmade from paper. To create an amazing imaginary space in which the luxurious world of glass and visual art is combined. Together with perfect printing technology, large format, special effects and surface treatments, they form a breath-taking story that will entertain you all year long.Great attention was paid to every detail and also on extremely precise processing and the top-quality print result.

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Dotline

Dotline has been facing a huge business challenge, which is as same as others in the welfare industry: a shortage of human resources. This identity system design is to inspire a company’s vision to their staff, candidates, and related people. The company’s vision is Social Heroes. Dotline sees all staff who come for help in someone's daily life as heroes. The logo is a graphical symbol of a hero flipping a cloak and moving forward designed from the letters, D+L. As Dotline provides 7 business categories, the logos come in 7 different colors with each business name typed with a brand typeface

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Sabbioni Branding

Grafiche Sabbioni required a new brand position to celebrate the firm's 60th year anniversary. Salt&Pepper worked with the company to create modern visual languages to promote this important milestone, highlighting the brand’s capabilities in sustainability in the box and traditional print processes. Salt&Pepper created an energetic, robust, and positive branding system, creating a line of 100 percent sustainable, using water-based inks and minimal paper waste to promote the company's core values.

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SUMMER PALACE TOUR

The design team used 2.5D style to draw the three major architectural clusters in the Summer Palace, covering more than 20 traditional Chinese buildings in total, using black, red, and green colors to create a colorful visual experience. We also introduced the concept of "Small Hand-carry", hoping that visitors can easily play around the Summer Palace, holding the history in the palm of their hands, taking the beauty of the scenery at their fingertips, and carrying good gifts in their hands.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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