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Kong-Ke Museum Visual Identity

Kong-Ke Museum

Kong-Ke Museum is a visual identity for an exhibition venue in Taichung, Taiwan, that also serves as a rest station for construction workers. The logo forms characters with short strokes, leaving them unfinished. The unfinished form refers to the transitional feeling of a construction site. The guidance system uses materials found on site, such as formwork, scrap wood, circular saw blades and plastic water pipes. Paint buckets filled with cement, water pipes, polycarbonate wave boards and gloves mark positions within the space. Posters are screen printed on cement bag packaging.

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Umano Brand Identity

Umano

Umano is a brand identity created for a hotel bar in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The identity draws on cultural anthropophagy, a literary concept that joins humor with the free reinterpretation of outside influences. The project includes a logotype, business cards on 300 gram offset paper, a menu, a bag, surface design and posters printed on 75 gram offset paper and glued to interior walls. Graphics and architecture combine to form visual narratives that reinterpret city sights and local poems. The aim is to move away from the formal tone of traditional hotel bars.

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Tiny Little World Kids Illustration

Tiny Little World

One of the things that served as the main inspiration behind the making of these designs is the variety of patterns, textures, and colors found in many different cultures around the world, as well as the wildlife usually found in these nations. It is a project that will allow the artist to continue expanding it for years to come, adding more and more nations. This project focuses on the importance of teaching children about cultural awareness. The use of vibrant colors and different shapes and patterns were essential to achieving the goal of paying homage to these nations and their traditions.

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SETMA Brand Design Logotype

SETMA Brand Design

The SETMA, Municipal’s Tourism and Environment Secretariat of Jijoca de Jericoacoara, brand represents the harmonious landscape and natural wonders of the city, from the Blue Lagoon, the Serrote, the Pierced Stone, the Sea and the iconic Sunset on the Dunes. The designer unified all these elements in a harmonious form with the use of sine waves curved elements, which represent the frequency, balance and equilibrium between all the natural beauty and experience the city provides, deemed beautiful by their residents and many visitors around the world.

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Kalitva Product Catalog

Kalitva

The catalog was created for Russian manufacturer of cooking utensils. As a result of detailed familiarization and comparative analysis of all collections, the most suitable spices, herbs and vegetables were selected, which complemented the design of the catalog and highlighted the advantages of each collection. The main cover of the catalog's made with a cutting in the form of a frying pan, through which the color photo of the collection shows. The handles of the frying pan and pots on the second cover are varnished by soft-touch laque, imitating the actual coverage of these handles.

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Carimbo Stamp

Carimbo

A stamp to identify its owner and his work and take it everywhere. At first, the intention was to find a way of approaching the offline world. Something like a business card, only classier, cheaper and environment friendly. So a stamp (carimbo) was the choice. A signature. Its inner part represents Igor's confusing and beautiful creative process, while the round frame wraps it up in fluidity and gives it purpose. These two combined build a texture the ink can flow through, providing the perfect support to his personal brand. At last, Minion Pro gracefully writes the contact information.

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Pagoda Corporate Identity

Pagoda

Pagoda is a corporate identity created for a Chinese fruit company. The identity is built around two monkey mascots, drawn first as pencil drafts and then developed with digital design software. Monkeys were chosen because they are linked with fruit in Chinese culture, where they also symbolise wisdom and courage. The mascots dance through the four seasons, and the flowers around them change with each mood. The colours refer to flowers, seasons and nature. Printing applies ultraviolet coating and hot stamping. The aim is to present Asian culture with respect for natural life.

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Naked Castle Visual Signage System

Naked Castle

Naked Castle is a signage system designed for a historic castle hotel on Moganshan. The design pairs a coat of arms with Art Deco lettering, and the geometric figures and lines follow proportions close to the golden ratio. British elements such as a hoof, a shield and a streamer are merged in the coat of arms, while icons of a king and a queen wearing crowns appear on the signs. The coat of arms was cast in low melting point metal, then hand polished and colored. The signs use forged iron and local wood to resist the outdoor mountain climate.

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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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Event Visual Identity

Event

An exhibition that takes up a popular character called Sanzo Hoshi from a completely different perspective. Therefore, designers tried a new approach to visual design. It has a three-dimensional composition with a depth that makes the painting hollow with the silhouette of a person.While appealing that Xuanzui and Sanzo Hoshi are the same people, designers made a strategy to have the silhouette remember the iconic image.

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Terark Visual Identity Design

Terark

Terark is a visual identity designed for a technology company that provides big data processing services. The design is based on a dot matrix combined with several gradient colors. Smoothly connected dots form the letter T, the first letter of the company name. Multiple gradient shaders were supplied, so the identity can be adapted to many uses. A custom font and a dot pattern were also delivered for use in print and other materials. The identity was applied to brochures, yearbooks, name cards and water bottles.

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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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