Design Pictorial

Design Pictorial

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

 

The Magnificence of Oriental Power

Chinese characters are important assets that enrich and promote the sustainable development of Eastern culture. The image design of the International Chinese Character Conference is not only to promote Asian culture, Chinese characters, but also to promote the trend of modern art culture with a cross-border oriental design energy wave, and actively display diversity.

Continue reading

 

Chinese Zodiac

The Chinese red packet tradition is about the reciprocity of giving and receiving. It’s a gesture of goodwill, that builds relationships among family and friends. 2019 is the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Pig - the animal that represents luck, good fortune, wealth, honesty and general prosperity. Its iconic design style merges Chinese festive elements with both abstract and figurative geometric shapes and bold colours inspired by the Nordic landscape and the fantastic designs of plant stems, petals, shells and snowflakes that are found in nature.

Continue reading

 

Kinderpalliativ Netzwerk Nordrhein

Within the scope of a pro-bono project a new look for KPNN, a network for palliative care of terminally ill children, was created. The logo acts as a visual platform for the developed iconography concept. The symbolic imagery manages to communicate the sensitive content of this topic in a subtle, focused manner. Every now and then, one of the numerous illustrations depicts a ship, which serves as a stylistic device representing the transition between life and death. The simple, stylized illustrations manage to achieve a high level of visual distinctiveness which were used on the new website.

Continue reading

 

Maldonado City

Maldonado is a Uruguayan city of coastal tourist attractions, such as whale watching and beautiful beaches. Therefore,it is a place attached to its landscape charms. Maldonado’s population needs to see the logo as the symbol that represents their small town, and be related to it. The logo demonstrates a new, fresh and friendly brand, joining the culture, the environment of the place and its city name initial as a essencial referent element.

Continue reading

 

PLANTS TRADE

PLANTS TRADE is a series of an innovative and artistic form of botanical specimens, which was developed to build a better relationship between humans and nature rather than educational materials. The Plants Trade Concept Book was prepared to help you understand this creative product. The book, designed in exactly the same size as the product, features not only nature photos but unique graphics inspired by the nature’s wisdom. More interestingly, the graphics are carefully printed by letterpress so that every image varies in color or texture, just like natural plants.

Continue reading

 

Soul Food

The black-and-white monochrome logo resembles a fork with a modern, minimalist root system. The name of the restaurant Soul Food resonates with the menu of the restaurant, which combines Southern-style BBQ sliders and fried chicken on waffles with traditional Middle Eastern ingredients like pomegranate molasses, sumac, and tahini. In response, the design explores the connection between food, represented by the fork, and culture, represented by the roots. The logo is incorporated throughout the brand identity of the restaurant based in Amman, Jordan.

Continue reading

 

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.

Continue reading