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Client Vs Designers Board Game

Client Vs Designers

Client Vs Designers is a board game for two players, inspired by the adversity between clients and designers. The design draws on the traditional game Animal Chess and adapts its structure into a playful format. Key job positions on each side are illustrated and given different rankings, so the two players can battle and overpower each other. Common points of frustration for each side act as traps. The playing pieces are transparent acrylic cut to shape and screenprinted with illustrations. The board is printed with metallic colors on paper that recalls the original game.

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Terra Branding

Terra

The curvilinear logo design with the theme of aroma drifting from the environment expresses a natural and high quality coffee experience. The individual labels are designed with a collage of local photographs that connect the producer's face with the place of origin, environment and consumers, and convey the individuality and charm of the unique coffee produced in each region.

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Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition Visual Identity

Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

The 2024 visual identity system for the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts School of Visual Design transmutes ceremonial flags into proto architectures of design speculation. By weaponizing the flag's inherent dialectic, simultaneously serving as ideological docking stations for collective visioning and speculative incubators for disciplinary subversion, this framework repositions GAFA as a generative node within global design's epistemic evolution.

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Sawamura Award 2024 Key Visual

Sawamura Award 2024

Sawamura Award 2024 is a key visual created for a company event for new employees, held at a traditional Kabuki theatre in Kyoto, Japan. The theme of the event was tradition and innovation. The letters of the word KABUKU were drawn with varied typography, so each letter works as both a letter and an illustration. Traditional Japanese colours and patterns taken from the theatre were combined with a fresh colour scheme. The key visual was applied to certificates, invitations shaped like show tickets, seals and publicity, giving the event a unified look.

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Ancora Brand Identity

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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Kakao AI Campus Brand Design

Kakao AI Campus

Kakao AI Campus is a brand identity design created for a learning space devoted to artificial intelligence. The campus is open to company staff, local communities, civic groups and people with limited digital access, and it supports the training of AI talent. The brand system includes more than 50 icons, key visuals, illustrations, signage and morphing motion graphics built around the theme of the boundless potential of individuals. A design for all approach improves visibility and guides movement inside and outside the space.

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Design Interview of the Day

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 designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about the design processes of great designers.

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