Design Tabloid

Design Tabloid

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

 

Fiery Spark Feifei

Fiery Spark Feifei is a brand character created for iFLYTEK, a company working in the field of artificial intelligence. The character has a simple form with sleek lines and a friendly appearance. White is the dominant color, expressing open possibilities in the artificial intelligence field, while accent colors are taken from the brand logo. Fiery Spark Feifei acts as an online assistant on the company website and applications, offering question and answer services. The character also appears in cultural products, campaigns and exhibitions.

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24 Solar Terms and Gods

24 Solar Terms and Gods is an illustration series that pairs each of the 24 Chinese solar terms with a traditional deity. The artworks draw on mythological figures from ancient Chinese classics and on petroglyph forms, using fine detail and a red and black palette. Each illustration measures 594 by 420 millimetres and is prepared for both print and digital display. A QR code in the lower right corner of each illustration links to a website with solar term explanations, deity stories and agricultural knowledge.

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Henry Moore Exhibition

The visual design for the Henry Moore exhibition showcases a comprehensive approach, featuring traditional materials such as posters and tickets. Additionally, a unique collection of cultural and creative products has been designed exclusively for the exhibition. This collection includes children's pencils and drawing books inspired by Henry Moore's iconic sculptures. By transforming his sculptural works into engaging drawing books, the designs aim to spark creativity and imagination in children, making art more accessible and interactive for younger audiences.

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What Next

Final visual outcome is reached by taking a symbol and turning it into a question mark by placing it on a smaller square below (an extracted 1/4 piece of a big square above it) and putting it on a tipping point while remaining in balance, creating a visual sensation of tension with a minimal rearrangement of elements. What Next logo, as well as the name, are in a way an oxymoron, a question and an answer both at once, creating friction. On its own, logo-sign is a simple, deliberate imperfection and a straight-forward communication vessel, striving to create a lot with little effort invested.

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Honki Factory

The concept is Opening the Path, The Honki Way. It defines Honki as Seriousness, as having a clear goal and taking concrete steps toward it. Those who master the structured approach to business development can use it to create new paths. The desire to foster many Honki individuals is represented in the H shaped frame, symbolizing structure, and the logotype, inspired by a factory, representing production. The variable design of the symbol and font reflects adaptability across all industries and fields.

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SDI Teaching Building

SDI Teaching Building is a spatial visual design for the interior of a six floor teaching building. Large scale walls are combined with large scale text to replace an empty and rigid atmosphere with a creative one. A classic German typeface echoes the German teaching model of the design school. DIN, the standard typeface of German road signs, marks guiding information, while Futura is used for other text. Fine wall paint is applied up to five meters, with overlapping colors and stacked letters. Some text is made of acrylic to create a contrast of materials.

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