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Cultured Silk Scarf Illustration

Cultured

Cultured is a silk scarf illustration inspired by Persian miniature painting from the thirteenth century. The illustration uses the bright and bold colors and the drawing style of the historic form, reinterpreted through flat design. The simplified details offer a modern reading of an antique art form. The artwork was created digitally with vector and image editing software. Cultured is prepared for print on demand and suits any standard square size of fabric or paper. The same artwork can also be applied to blanket scarves, pillow cases and framed prints.

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Destination Paris Bercy BtoB Event

Destination Paris Bercy

Destination Paris Bercy is a visual identity created for an event destination in Paris. The identity presents the Paris Bercy area as a place where professionals and the wider public can host events. The concept draws on travel diaries and holiday postcards. The logo is printed like a passport stamp and works as a label of quality. Each partner is shown by a logo in a stamp shape, forming a single signature that unites diverse expertise. A blue, white and red border recalls old airmail envelopes and French charm. The identity is applied to a business card, a booklet and a website.

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You and We Visual Language

You and We

The project is that volunteers settle into daily life and hope to bring about positive social change. The visual assets are all 83 volunteer representative images and consists of 54 graphics, 15 illustrations, and 14 icons. It is designed that people can easily understand what kind of volunteer work is for each category. The graphic is based on a modular design with the theme of volunteer work and people, and Illustration shows various kinds of volunteer work that anyone can do, delivering a familiar feeling.

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Huade City Visual Identity

Huade

Huade was once an important military base for defending China's northern frontiers. Abandoned military facilities can develop military experience and tourism, and drive urban economic development. The design is inspired by a button, the pause and start symbols in button mean that suspend busy work, and start the journey of Huade. The combination of the pause and start symbol and the pentagram is the English Abb. HD of Huade. The five pointed star is part of the army flag and epaulet. Huade will always remember and pay tribute to the heroes who defended the country during the war.

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Pure Green Visual Identity

Pure Green

Pure Green is a visual identity for a hotpot restaurant brand in Chongqing. The green color of fresh pepper hotpot is used as the brand color, in contrast with the red that is common in the local market. A character image named Mobee forms the central symbol of the identity. Mobee combines a positive circle and a negative cross element. Mahjong tiles replace the facial features to express independence, mystery and vitality. The brand symbols are applied across diverse forms and media, with the aim of bringing the brand closer to young consumers.

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Ai Academy Branding

Ai Academy

Ai Academy is a brand identity created for a company working in artificial intelligence. The logotype is based on monospaced fonts, which are commonly used in programming environments. The backgrounds translate the multidisciplinary nature of artificial intelligence into abstract images, without direct reference to technology. They were produced with experimental colour mixing techniques using water-based paints, then photographed and post-produced. The contrast between logotype and backgrounds keeps the logo clearly visible. Bold colours aid recognition in event and social media materials.

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Best moments photo album

Best moments

Best Moments is a photo album made for instant photographs. The album joins the traditional album format with a diary function, providing space to insert each photo and to write a description beside it. Best Moments consists of two parts, a longer album and a shorter outer case, held together and protected by an elastic string. The cover is made by hand from ecological paper that contains up to twenty-five percent leather waste in place of cellulose fibres. Copper foil hot stamping and golden screws complete the design.

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Debes Intervenir Poster

Debes Intervenir

Debes Intervenir is a workplace safety poster campaign created for an industrial plant. The posters show the correct and the incorrect use of tools and facilities. Each scene focuses on the moment just before an accident happens. A comic style is used to build a friendly and clear bond with the workers. An illustrated character guides the staff through every message. The artwork was drawn with vector illustration tools to keep an organic and loose line, then colored and composed with image editing software. Each poster is printed on styrene and measures 900 by 600 millimeters.

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Flora Self Promotional

Flora

Flora is a fantasy illustration to promote the artist’s creativity and storytelling, depicting the flowering of gastrointestinal microbiota fertilized by the churning gastric environment. The flowering is depicted by petals of Bacteroidetes, Bifidobacteriam, and Enterococcus faecalis, pistils of Lactobacillus and stamens of Enterococcus faecalis perched on stalks of Escherichia coli. The flower itself emerges on stalks of Clostridium difficile. Bacillus cereus, long rod-shaped bacteria in their arthomitus stage attach by fibers to the intestinal epithelium, grow filamentously, and sporulate.

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Sati Comic Book

Sati

The story and design chosen by Simran are quite different yet perfect together. As seen the colours used are unique and each page has different tell to the story. She succeeded in pulling off the story in 6 spreads with the style of Van Gogh which isn't easy to pull off. The design of her text is poetic and beautiful, not too heavy and not to light. It is perfectly balanced and placed. Each page has a different emotion and colour or mood to it bringing out a new fresh perspective.

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Legendary Beast Illustration

Legendary Beast

Legendary Beast is a series of traditional style illustrations. Each image intertwines the eyes of two animals to express the opposition and coexistence of contrasting forces. The Chinese dragon and the tiger stand for the strong male side, while the phoenix and the crane stand for the gentle female side. Flowers and rocks add a decorative quality. The drawings are made with digital painting software and printed with high quality techniques on handmade paper, measuring 31 cm high and 45 cm wide. The form is based on the traditional Chinese folding fan, combined with modern methods.

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Anubis The Judge Illustration

Anubis The Judge

'Anubis The Judge'; through an analysis of the design, it is obvious the designer focused on the primary features of Anubis as an iconic symbol of an ancient and prominent era. He added a title 'The Judge' possibly to portray more of the power or strength the character in his design holds. Clearly, the designer added depth and detailed attention to the geometrical symbols he used across the design. He included a shocker wrapped around the character’s neck, which was also heavy on texture.

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