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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.

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Shenzhen Jiangangshan Hill Park Wayfinding Signage System

Shenzhen Jiangangshan Hill Park

Henri Rousseau's impressionist style is ingeniously applied as the main visual elements into this project. Wayfinding signs are designed as interesting impressionist-illustration silhouettes here and there in the park, creating a tranquil eco-friendly hilly aura for visitors. The artist's thoughts and the project's purposes are brought into resonance by the concept of harmony between human and nature.

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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.

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SP Saffron Grotesk Type Specimen

SP Saffron Grotesk

Saffron is an elegant contemporary neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface with strong stylistic geometric contrasts, drawing on the aesthetics and the typographic standards of Swiss modernism. The distinctive wide-open stance was designed to give the right visual consistency for branding and communications. This authentic and original typeface represents a shifting contemporary aesthetics. The specimen is divided into sections, with ring binder posters inside the pack.

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Nel Typeface

Nel

This typeface is developed with the designer in mind. Nel is a modern typeface with lots of options. The Regular version consists of Uppercase and lowercase letters, and quite a few other punctuation marks. The Nel Brickbuild is a playful stencil version and the Nel Dots is a dotted typeface. The Nel also has a light and heavy style with corresponding fun versions. Icons (an all icon font) has been its most recent member. There are nine options in total to mix and match while designing awesome prints, posters, logos, websites, or identities. One family. For designers.

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Gung Ho Illustration

Gung Ho

Gung Ho is a cover illustration created for the French deluxe edition of the comic series Gung Ho. The artwork avoids the drawn black outline used in most comics and applies a cut-out collage approach that keeps the image clear. Silhouettes are treated with colour to create an expressionistic impression that supports the tone of the story. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic southern Europe where survival depends on fortified settlements. The image captures a moment of danger, youthful courage and released teenage adrenaline. The digital artwork was made with a graphics tablet.

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