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La Plage Brand Identity

La Plage

La Plage is a bold and nostalgic brand identity inspired by the effortless charm of 1950s beach culture. Blending bohemian elegance with seaside sophistication, it features vintage inspired illustrations, expressive typography, and a rich palette of terracotta, green, and gold. Playful slogans, luxe textures, and tactile print finishes enhance the experience, crafting a timeless world where vintage charm seamlessly blends with contemporary elegance. Every detail is crafted to evoke sun soaked leisure, artistic expression, and timeless storytelling with a touch of coastal allure.

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Ancora Brand Identity

Ancora

Ancora is a brand store that sells fountain pens and stationaries. Nowadays, digitalization and information and communication technology have been progressing rapidly. On the other hand, Ancora focuses on the revival of analog in-person communication. Ancora reconsiders these values in which their way of writing, drawing from the heart provides joy that also delivers a special experience such as customizable fountain pens that can be combined in a myriad of ways; and ink blending using a cocktail shaker.

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Infinite Borders Reshape The Three Kingdoms Brand

Infinite Borders

Infinite Borders is a brand identity for a strategy game set in the Three Kingdoms era. The brand graphic is derived from the pictographic characters of the name and from the grid square impression of strategy game play. Black, red and white, colors popular in the Han Dynasty, are used as the primary colors. Flat calligraphic brushstrokes serve as auxiliary elements. Modern typography completes a systematic and flat visual system. The design is applied to digital posters, user interface screens and printed items, and it can be extended across channels while keeping visual consistency.

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Omar Khayyam Poster

Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam is a series of urban posters that present the poetry of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam. The posters mark the 975th anniversary of the poet's birth. Each poster combines Persian typography with an English translation placed in the upper left area. The type design draws on classical Persian calligraphy and is refined for legibility in busy public settings. Each poster measures 150 by 107 centimeters and uses CMYK color at 300 dpi. The series was shown in metro stations and other public spaces in Tehran.

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Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition Visual Identity

Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

The 2024 visual identity system for the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts School of Visual Design transmutes ceremonial flags into proto architectures of design speculation. By weaponizing the flag's inherent dialectic, simultaneously serving as ideological docking stations for collective visioning and speculative incubators for disciplinary subversion, this framework repositions GAFA as a generative node within global design's epistemic evolution.

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Sawamura Award 2024 Key Visual

Sawamura Award 2024

Sawamura Award 2024 is a key visual created for a company event for new employees, held at a traditional Kabuki theatre in Kyoto, Japan. The theme of the event was tradition and innovation. The letters of the word KABUKU were drawn with varied typography, so each letter works as both a letter and an illustration. Traditional Japanese colours and patterns taken from the theatre were combined with a fresh colour scheme. The key visual was applied to certificates, invitations shaped like show tickets, seals and publicity, giving the event a unified look.

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Design Legend of the Day

Legendary Designers and Their Award-Winning Works.

Design Legends are extremely famous designers who make our World a better place with their good designs. Discover legendary designers and their innovative product designs, original art works, creative architecture, outstanding fashion designs and design strategies. Enjoy and explore original design works of award-winning designers, artists, architects, innovators and brands worldwide. Get inspired by creative designs.

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