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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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Woonwaard

Woonwaard is a corporate identity created for one of the largest housing associations in the Netherlands. The identity is modern yet serious, and it conveys calmness and serenity. The design represents the diversity of the tenants and the positive aspects of renting. Each application is given a unique set of circles, taken from a basic design of more than 250 circles in different compositions and colors. The printed media use FSC certified paper with six Pantone colors plus black. Digital applications reduce the use of paper.

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Math Alive

Dynamic graphic motifs enrich the learning effect of math in the blended learning environment. Parabolic graphs from mathematics inspired the logo design. Letter A and V are connected with a continuous line, demonstrating the interaction between an educator and a student. It conveys the message that Math Alive guides users to become whiz kids in math. The key visuals represent the transformation of abstract math concepts into three-dimensional graphics. The challenge was to balance the fun and engaging setting for the target audience with professionalism as an educational technology brand.

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Botchan Ressha

Miltos Botchan Ressha is a chocolate package created for a collaboration between a locomotive with more than 130 years of history and a chocolatier. The box is made of deep green fine paper, a color that refers to the train livery and to matcha chocolate. The locomotive is reproduced with matte black foil stamping, based on photographs of the actual train. The logo and the product name are stamped with matt gold foil. The chocolate is engraved with a route map drawn as a maze. An attached card explains each stop and the route.

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Green Light Tea Garden

Green Light Tea Garden is a packaging design for organic tea. The paper is made from used tea leaf residue and recycled tea bag paper. The handmade long fiber paper is printed with environmentally friendly ink. The illustrations show four native animals of Pinglin, Taiwan: the collared owlet, the Formosan muntjac, the Swinhoe pheasant and the emerald green tree frog. Each animal is placed in a local setting of cloud, mountain, forest and water. The packaging includes a gift box and a smaller bag, and explains the link between organic tea and the protection of nature.

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The Enchanted Forest

Label and packaging design for Blue Lagoon distillery, New Caledonia a small distillery of the islands, and their rum bottle, The Enchanted Forest. It is a uniquely crafted white rum characterized by gentle vanilla aromas, distilled from a variety of sugar cane produced by farmers in Southern Caledonia. The objective was to create a label design that conveys the quality of the brand and creates an emotional bond with the customers in a highly competitive market. The overall feeling of the packaging is about the intertwining of tradition and modernity.

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