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Before the Midnight Hour Furniture Illustrations

Before the Midnight Hour

A series of black and white illustrations commissioned by Marc Krusin and featuring his most prominent furniture designs for Knoll and Desalto. Inspired by comics and noir cinema, the project breaks the conventions of furniture illustration by bringing narrative to the scenes, use of exaggerated perspective and a moody noir aesthetic. The lack of human presence and scattered objects add an element of mystery and suspense to the story, while the protagonist is revealed in a surprise ending. All images were drawn digitally in Adobe Photoshop using Wacom Cintiq tablet.

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Taoxichuan Visual Design

Taoxichuan

Taoxichuan is a scroll illustration created for a ceramic culture district in Jingdezhen. The illustration presents 600 years of porcelain history and the development of the district in one continuous composition. A flat painting style and bright colors build a fantasy porcelain forest in which plants, porcelain and figures are blended. Three original characters, the Kiln God, the Wine God and the Sea God, appear along the route. The vector artwork is layered for flexible cropping and prepared in both CMYK and RGB. The scroll also works as a narrative map that guides visitors.

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Jiangnan Collection Visual Identity

Jiangnan Collection

Jiangnan Collection is a visual identity inspired by the water towns of southern China. The design reinterprets traditional architecture, rivers and everyday scenes through geometric composition and a modern color system. Cultural imagery is transformed into a scalable graphic system that adapts to lifestyle products such as silk scarves, paper cups, bookmarks and fridge magnets. The artwork was created with a digital illustration workflow and prepared in CMYK for accurate printing. The intent is to make regional heritage part of modern daily life.

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Xiushan Lantern Brand and Illustration

Xiushan Lantern

Xiushan Lantern is a branding and illustration project based on the Xiu Shan Lantern Dance, a national intangible cultural heritage of southeastern Chongqing. The design extracts lantern shapes, folk patterns, traditional colors and dance movements, and then retells them in a simple modern visual language. The illustrations are drawn with vector software and applied to cultural products, including red envelopes printed on recyclable paper and other items made of acrylic. The aim is to bring the lantern culture into daily life and to support its continuity.

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Roofarm Rebranding Brand Identity

Roofarm Rebranding

This project is a rebranding initiative accompanying Roofarm's business expansion. The company has grown from urban rooftop agriculture and is now expanding into large scale rural farming alongside its urban operations. At this stage, the corporate vision was redefined as Reinventing Agriculture to Sustain the World's Food Supply. This vision was translated into a circuit inspired identity that expresses agriculture as infrastructure. The identity features two interconnected forms that symbolize the relationship between urban and rural systems.

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Villa Karuma Glamping Resort Mexican Branding

Villa Karuma

Villa Karuma is a brand identity created for a glamping retreat in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico. The name combines local Mayan words for sky and night. The wordmark uses a stylized uppercase serif typeface with fine and irregular strokes. Inside the letter U, a star and a wavy base represent the sky and the earth. Lithographic style illustrations show the cabins and the surrounding landscape. The color palette joins earth tones with golden yellow, blue, green and warm brown, and each tone recalls a moment of the day.

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Prepd Brand Identity

Prepd

Prepd is an innovative food delivery platform that transforms digital influencer recipes into professionally prepared meals. Its identity centers on a bold, modern aesthetic designed to disrupt the food tech space. Featuring a clever logotype with a negative space frying pan and a high contrast Green and Lime palette, the brand celebrates the link between creators and consumers. Through expressive, human-first photography and clean geometry, Prepd turns the act of scrolling into a tangible, high quality dining experience.

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Adagio Brand Identity

Adagio

Adagio is a luxury bean to bar chocolate brand identity built around sustainable cultivation and ingredient origin. Hand drawn botanical illustrations and numeric timelines show how cacao, mint, and citrus develop over time, turning the visual system into a guide to farming practices and seasonal cycles. Gold foil details and refined typography convey craftsmanship and quality, while the modular three box format creates a coherent identity that connects flavor, brand experience, and the land behind each harvest.

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Container Music Albums

Container

This is an electronic music album with the theme of human and philosophy, mind and body. As the theme of this design, the visual combines classical aesthetics, philosophy and modern electronic music. The various natural elements are combined into a chaotic image, the classical style is boldly used, and then the realistic images are matched to create the final scheme.

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Mei Tao Wan Brand Image

Mei Tao Wan

Mei Tao Wan is a visual identity and wayfinding system for a cultural park on a historic ceramic site in Foshan, China. The design abstracts the structural lines of the Nanfeng Ancient Kiln district into a geometric skeleton. This skeleton forms a custom typeface of 26 letters and the numbers 0 to 9, together with geometric icons. The signage is made of high transparency acrylic and stainless steel with a black copper finish. Integrated LED lighting at the base keeps the text legible at night. The system links the history of the site with its new cultural function.

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Lao Huotang Brand Identity

Lao Huotang

Lao Huo Tang is a brand identity for a hot pot restaurant in Taiwan. The logo shows a cast iron pot held by a single hand, with a rising steam line that suggests slow simmering. The Chinese characters are drawn with flame shaped brushstrokes and paired with modern typography. The palette layers boiling red, orange red, brick red and warm beige, guiding the eye from stove to table. White is used for the logo and lettering to improve clarity. The identity is applied to signage, menus, business cards and printed materials.

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Dou Gong Typeface

Dou Gong

Dou Gong Typeface reinterprets traditional Chinese timber construction as a typographic system. Inspired by mortise and tenon joinery, characters are formed through interlocking strokes that act as modular structural elements. The design expands into three dimensional and spatial applications, bridging architecture and typography. It introduces a method driven approach that transforms structural logic into a flexible and contemporary visual language.

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