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Designer: Kazune Watanabe Design: Brand Identity Tag: Graphic Date: Sunday, 8 November 2026

Designtide Tokyo 2024

Designtide Tokyo is a design event of exhibitions and markets that explores and shares new trends in product design and related fields. Through design, it creates an immersive experience of energy and emotion beyond digital media. Held from 2005 to 2012, it shared design culture from Tokyo with the world. Each year, about 50 invited and selected designers presented works that valued creativity over commerce. In 2024, Designtide Tokyo was revived with a new logo and renewed vision.

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Designer: Lei Wang Design: Placard Tag: Graphic Date: Saturday, 7 November 2026

Culture to Technology Identity

Culture to Technology Identity is a poster designed for display in bus stop light boxes. In the upper section, the Chinese character for Anhui is framed by the classic contours of Huizhou architecture, recalling the regional history and culture. The character gradually transforms into a circuit, ending in the four Chinese characters for Hefei High Tech. The poster measures 60 by 90 centimeters. The gradient blue tones are printed with spot color overprinting, and the circuit lines are coated with local UV varnish for a raised effect.

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Designer: SonyMusic Solutions inc. Design: Op Art Tag: Graphic Date: Friday, 6 November 2026

B. League All-Star Game 2023

B. League All-Star Game 2023 is a key visual created for a basketball event held in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. The design uses op art, an abstract style calculated to create a special visual effect. The layout is based on the grid board and round pieces of Othello, a board game that originated in Mito. Each square shows an image related to basketball or a building or landmark that symbolizes Mito. Rotating shapes and colors form animations that are full of movement. The visual was made to draw the audience into an immersive experience.

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Designer: Paul Robb Design: Advertising and AR Campaign Tag: Graphic Date: Thursday, 5 November 2026

School Admissions

ABA Typographic Posters is an advertising campaign created for an arts university. Large-format typographic posters are printed and installed in public urban locations, where bold layouts and color systems attract attention. Each poster works as a marker for augmented reality content, which viewers reach by scanning the printed image with a smartphone. The augmented reality layer adds animated and interactive material that extends the printed message. The campaign presents art education to prospective students in a direct and participatory way.

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Designer: Paul Robb Design: Typeface Tag: Graphic Date: Wednesday, 4 November 2026

Bellamy Sans

Bellamy Sans is a contemporary sans-serif typeface that reimagines the grotesque style through a refined, modern sensibility. Rooted in the traditions of Swiss typography, it upholds the core principle of neutrality while introducing a softened approach to the rigidity characteristic of classic grotesques. Subtle contrast and meticulously crafted curves lend the typeface an understated expressive elegance, with a clarity that emerges without reliance on superfluous ornamentation.

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Designer: Emi Kawasaki Design: Calendar Tag: Graphic Date: Tuesday, 3 November 2026

Dimension in the Shadows

Dimension in the Shadows is a desk calendar made from black paperboard cut by laser. The set contains twelve monthly cards, each with a different design. Every card is mounted in a slit of a small wooden cube. Dates for Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays are cut through, while weekdays are half cut. Each abstract figure recalls a scene of the changing seasons in Japan. Seen against the light, the sharp outline reads as a paper sculpture. The cast shadow changes shape as the light moves, adding quiet interest to daily life.

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Designer of the DaySpecial CoverageSunday, 1 November 2026

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