Design Pictorial

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

 
Who's That Eating Pop Up Picture Book

Keitaro Sugihara Pop Up Picture Book Graphic Sunday, 16 August 2026

Who's That Eating

This interactive pop-up book follows seven animals enjoying their favorite snacks, each with a 3D pop up fold showcasing their distinct eating style. Each pop up was designed with a single page cut out, and a second backing page revealing the inside of each mouth and adding structural integrity. This simple design, combined with paper collage illustrations, brings life to each animal. The text includes eating sounds via Japanese onomatopoeia, encouraging the reader to open and close the pages as the animals munch away.

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Muse Conceptual Exhibtion

Michelle Poon Conceptual Exhibtion Graphic Saturday, 15 August 2026

Muse

Muse is an experimental design project studying the musical perception of the human through three installation experiences which provide different ways to experience music. The first is purely sensational using thermo-active material, and the second display the decoded perception of musical spatiality. The last is a translation between music notation and visual forms. People are encouraged to interact with the installations and explore the music visually with their own perception. The main message is that designers should be aware of how perception affects them in practice.

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Master Ji Gong Movie Poster

YITONG CREATIVE Movie Poster Graphic Friday, 14 August 2026

Master Ji Gong

Master Ji Gong is a trailer poster for a Chinese animated fantasy adventure film of the same name. The poster measures 750 by 1050 millimetres. Chinese ink and traditional Chinese elements are used to create a poetic and mysterious eastern atmosphere. The dragon and the monk, shown with a red kasaya, a patchwork outer vestment and a palm-leaf fan, are figures from the film and were rendered with three-dimensional software. The ink was made with water and tested on rice paper, hard paper and cloth to compare textures. All parts were then combined digitally.

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Snow Peak Visual Identity

Lin Hai Visual Identity Graphic Thursday, 13 August 2026

Snow Peak

Recognition is an important evaluation index in logo design. How to use a simple design language to integrate the hotel with the complex and changeable landmark Potala Palace is one of the difficulties in the whole design. The Potala Palace is a holy building in the eyes of Tibetans. Therefore, the design team refined the most representative element pillars as design elements, and created the image of the three-dimensional Potala Palace through two-dimensional techniques, so that the annotation conveyed a strong regional style.

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Evoluwe Branding Project

Jonathan Nacif de Andrade Branding Project Graphic Wednesday, 12 August 2026

Evoluwe

Evoluwe is a brand identity created for a customer service consulting firm. The identity uses the initials E and W to express shared and continuous evolution. The symbol is built from three geometric shapes that stand for three stages of the consulting process. A square represents the moment when client needs are understood. The second shape has one rounded corner and marks the start of the transformation. The third shape has two rounded corners and shows the completed evolution. The golden ratio guided the construction, keeping the identity consistent across digital and printed materials.

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Japanese Kumano Kodo Calendar

Kiyoka Yamazuki Calendar Graphic Tuesday, 11 August 2026

Japanese Kumano Kodo

Japanese Kumano Kodo is a hand-drawn illustration created for a corporate wall calendar. The calendar theme is the old highways of Japan, including the Oshu Highway, the Tokaido, the Sanyo Highway, the Kumano Kodo, the Nagasaki Highway and the Minoji. The Kumano Kodo is a pilgrimage route used since about the year 908 and still walked today. The illustration brings the Nachi Fire Festival and Nachi Falls together in one colorful scene. The artwork is painted with acrylic paint on illustration board. The calendar has six sheets and measures 420 by 595 millimeters.

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