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Printmaking Tibet Illustration

Printmaking Tibet

Printmaking Tibet is a set of illustrations that depicts Tibetan culture and landscape. The illustrations are drawn with graphic design software and follow a printmaking style. Subjects include the Potala Palace, yaks on the snowy plateau and the distant pilgrimage path. Traditional culture is combined with modern visual aesthetics to present the beautiful, remote and devout character of Tibet. Each image measures 3600 by 3600 pixels at 300 dpi. The illustrations can be printed on coated paper or cloth and applied to cultural products.

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Love Hanshui Water Packaging

Love Hanshui

Love Hanshui is a commemorative packaging series for purified drinking water, created to mark the selection of Wuhan as an International Wetland City. Four native animals, the finless porpoise, the blue headed duck, the black stork and the elk, represent the four seasons of the year. Traditional Chinese ink painting joins the animals with local wetland scenery. The white bottle label is produced with a heat shrink process and spot colour printing. Each bottle is 60 millimetres wide and 220 millimetres high. A code on the label opens a three-dimensional view.

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Sean Coffee Gift Box Design

Sean Coffee

Sean Coffee is a gift box designed for a Taiwanese coffee brand. The package consists of a black outer box, an inner lining and illustrated cards. The illustration shows a coffee expert roasting beans in a forest, in a warm fluorescent orange tone that recalls ripe coffee cherries. Seven Pantone inks and layered printing are used, together with foil stamping and embossing. The inner cards can be replaced according to different themes, which keeps the outer box in use, lowers printing costs and reduces the carbon footprint.

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Kweichow Moutai Sanhua Flying Apsaras Baijiu Packaging

Kweichow Moutai Sanhua Flying Apsaras

Kweichow Moutai Sanhua Flying Apsaras is a packaging design for a Chinese baijiu spirit. The design uses the Flying Apsaras motif from the Dunhuang murals, an element also found in the brand trademark. The figure is hand painted in the style of ancient Chinese mural art and set on a bright yellow background, a color typical of the Dunhuang murals. The box is opened from the right side, and double-layered cloud-shaped decorations surround the bottle inside. The bottle is opened from the metal cap on top. The box is made of paper, and the bottle of ceramic and metal.

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Cut and Paste Branding

Cut and Paste

This project toolkit, Cut and Paste: Preventing Visual Plagiarism, addresses a topic that can affect everyone in the design industry and yet visual plagiarism is a topic that is seldom discussed. This could be due to the ambiguity between taking reference from an image and copying from it. Therefore, what this project proposes is to bring awareness to the grey areas surrounding visual plagiarism and position this at the forefront of conversations around creativity.

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Woonwaard Rebranding

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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