Design Tabloid

Design Tabloid

Design Tabloid featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Base

“Base” is the name of a typeface conceived and designed by Franco Cervi. The project sums up a minimalist approach, formal rigor and an aptitude for experimentation. The original presentation brochure, besides showing the complete set of the designed characters – including glyphs – also illustrates their graphic personality, the constructive anatomy, the geometric ratios that generate the kerning. The appendix contains meta-graphic applications.

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40 Kreattiv Covers

The scope of the project was to inject a cultural related theme into the designs. Andrew Carter, the designer, produced a look of action to express contemporary art through the motion of the logo. The different arrangements of the logo creates a sense of motion that cause the eye to move over the work. What inspired the artist was a reading about a technique which captures movement in several frames. Andrew also took inconsideration that the rate of new typefaces being produced nowadays is simply staggering, so a detailed research had to be done.

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Domm Restaurant

DOMM is a restaurant in Zurich that offers traditional cuisine from northern Italy. Our client asked for a modern visual image that referenced traditional aspects. We created a pictogram system which incorporates not only the cuisine of northern Italy, but also classic designs and objects from the worlds of fashion, sports, and architecture. The art design style of the past century was the basis of the pictograms’ strict geometrical patterns which were designed using only a few elements.

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Visual/Senses

This exhibition catalogue not only captures with tenderness the texture of decorative elements of traditional Chinese temples in glorious black and white, but also the scent of a temple. It is printed with special aroma ink to recreate the atmosphere of a temple. Through visual lens, the forgotten, the ordinary and the archaic are given stature in this catalogue. It invites readers to take a second look at the overlooked and be engaged through the senses of sight and smell as memories are evoked; new possibilities are imagined and personal connections are explored.

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Boranda

Borandá is an initiative to encourage society to visit Atlantic Rainforest conservation units. Its name come from the Portuguese words Bora (informal for Let's) and andar (walk). Movement's visual identity combines colourful and organic shapes of nature with a modern-urban scenario, which is the context of the main audience – those who are not used to visit the units. Visual identity creates a path of trails and the line camouflages itself in illustrations in a playful message: to visit the Atlantic Rain Forest is to preserve it.

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Tasting through 24

This is a book of Chinese traditional foods, selected some stories by personal experiences about food and life. By using photos, contest and graphics, to show what I'm eating as a Chinese person and to tell some stories about food in my memories. They are also book marks made by spices, a poster, a handmade stamp, photo album and so on. Hope it may press Chinese cultures to who are interested in Chinese food.

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