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

 

The Classic of Tea

Redesigned The Classic of Tea, which is the world's earliest book recording tea. The book is wholly made and packaged by beech wood. The central title is carved with red copper. Ancient Chinese culture before Christ was mostly handed down by bamboo, trees and bronze, and tea culture also evolved from these three materials.

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Light Luce

After the devastating earthquake of 2016, the Umbria Region of Italy required a reposition of its communications. This catalog is that journey displaying the cultural riches of unknown areas of the territory. Each of the section index pages was designed focusing on communicating that storytelling. Although mainly a photography journey of light and unseen culture, the textual part of the catalog has been treated to balance the visual story.

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The Taste of Music

Humanity has always tried to elevate every experience we could have, from music, to film, to art, among other things. It is not surprising that sound-enhanced food could be the new elevation we seek for our food experiences. The resent research has expanded the area of sensory applications of food and found that certain tones make things taste sweeter or more bitter. So this book is talking about how does the theory work and what's scientific reasons behind it.

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Chris Cran Book

It was essential that the design of this catalogue be sympathetic to the work of this contemporary artist. The halftone dot was chosen as an approach for the cover as this technique has been one constant in the artist’s multifaceted career. The yellow color sleeve was incorporated as a way to reference the many layers in this artist’s practice, and the use of one of the Chorus faces on the cover was a humorous nod to the visitor experience. A spot-UV varnish was used on the cover to give the image a three-dimensional quality similar to his works.

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Fleet Of Time

The design team was commissioned to design a memorabilia for "Fleet of Time" (released as Back In Time in North America), one of the top Chinese box office films in China, adapted from a popular Chinese novel. Directed by Zhang Yi Bai, the story is set in the 1990s/2000s Beijing, a coming-of-age tale of 5 friends who grew apart over time. The objective was to create something more than just a usual film souvenir set and it has to appeal to fans of both the film and novel.

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Letterforms

This album is the part of big graduation project which Dina Ruzha has done in collaboration with talented calligraphers from Russia and Ukraine. The album contains works covering different directions of calligraphy from more classical types of writing to experimental ones, made by non-traditional instruments and materials. Particular attention in the album is given to Cyrillic calligraphy. Many artists study the history of Cyrillic. This is a unique material and the basis for the work. The author is grateful for participating in the project.

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