Design Tabloid

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

 
Across poster

Across

Across is a poster created for a digital art festival dedicated to the rock art of the Helan Mountains in China. The poster is printed on lenticular material. One image shows the original Helan Mountain motif and the other shows a modern digital version of the same motif. As the viewing angle changes, the ancient motif fades and the digital motif appears. The traditional image was painted with a mixture of ink, tea, gelatine and gold powder, applied by splashing to create a texture similar to rock. Across aims to preserve and share an endangered ancient culture.

Continue reading about Across poster

 
Archadia Brand Identity

Archadia

Archadia is a brand identity created for a higher education school of architecture based in Venice, Italy. The symbol is a stylized letter A, split into two solid volumes to suggest both stability and movement. The letter A stands for the brand name and also for academy, architecture and abitare, the Italian word for living. The form is built from an equilateral triangle inscribed in an isosceles triangle. The blue color reflects the institutional role of the school and the water of the Venice lagoon. The vector logo works on light and dark backgrounds.

Continue reading about Archadia Brand Identity

 
Dona Vitamina Branding

Dona Vitamina

Dona Vitamina is a brand identity project created for an existing juice brand. The logotype shows a cross-eyed Victorian lady sipping a juice, a humorous image of a woman who owns herself. To expand that idea, a series of illustrations of women of different ethnicities was drawn in a stencil style and paired with short, amusing phrases. The illustrations appear on menus, packaging, bags, postcards, stickers and a large handmade wall. Most printed items were produced by offset printing in CMYK colors, and the bags were silkscreened.

Continue reading about Dona Vitamina Branding

 
Sxdesign Brand Identity

Sxdesign

Sxdesign is a brand identity created for a design studio based in Beijing, China. Every detail of the logo follows a 1:1.414 ratio, which gives the mark a compact and composed appearance. Small graphic elements in the corners recall quotation marks and frame the rectangles of the logo. The arrangement makes the mark symmetrical and suggests the citation, marking and interpretation of language and ideas. Through motion graphics, the logo can also grow into the traditional Chinese form of the studio name, linking tradition and modern design.

Continue reading about Sxdesign Brand Identity

 
Scentwalk Corporate Identity

Scentwalk

Scentwalk is a conceptual corporate identity for a future company that extracts and stores memories in the form of smell. The logo is an abbreviation of the brand name and is built from the ideas of odor molecules, data, extraction, collection and walking. The color scheme uses holographic silver foil, a material that looks silver but reflects color in light, echoing the idea that gas is colorless yet can create emotion. The mark is dynamic and joined by a specific sound. Related posters and products address the self, partners, family and friends.

Continue reading about Scentwalk Corporate Identity

 
Cloud Mountain Type Type Design

Cloud Mountain Type

Cloud Mountain Type is a typeface inspired by the cloud and fog mountains of Zhang Jiajie and by ancient Chinese landscape painting. The letterforms combine traditional Chinese cloud and mountain imagery with the structure of the Latin alphabet. Each character is hand drawn and then refined with digital image software, and the typeface can be used at variable sizes. Seen very closely, the details take over and the letter becomes hard to recognize, much as the shape of a mountain cannot be seen from its summit.

Continue reading about Cloud Mountain Type Type Design