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Design Manner

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

 

BASF Trend Book

The global trend book “Under the Radar” is a unique communication tool that provides an annual, profound and structured overview on global color trends for the automotive industry. It aims at showing the significance and variations of color in different regional market and has established as a constant company for the designers of original equipment manufacturers (OEM) by offering specific trend and color information together with 65 color samples. The design intents to capture and explain these global and regional trends in usable format and an expressive way.

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The Hexagonal Wishful Knot Red Packet

LLAB Design Ltd. were commissioned by Kelly Services Hong Kong to design a festive gift which their consultants could hand-deliver to meet new clients and reconnect with old ones. The gift had to trigger clients’ interest in Kelly’s comprehensive solution, and serve as an ice-breaker helping the consultants to promote Kelly’s full range of services to their existing and potential clients. The design with the wishful knot and hexagon represents Kelly’s 360° talent solution as a complete solution offering unlimited possibilities to deliver ultimate satisfaction to Kelly’s clients.

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Happy Pockets

A promotional calendar for goo, the Internet portal site that originated in Japan, this is an upgraded version of the desk calendar with pockets that has been a popular item every year. With the concept of “Make Japan Happy,” each month has a different pocket with a uniquely cut rim and graphic design that bring the season to a visual full circle. The pockets can store receipts, name cards, notes, and even little sweets given as souvenir gifts. Put it next to your computer or some other convenient place and enjoy the changing visuals from month to month.

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Arc Calendar

The Arc Calendar is a promotional item produced for the Yupo Corporation, the manufacturer of Yupo synthetic paper. YUPO® has water resistance and strength not found in paper but can be printed and processed like paper. This calendar expresses both the potential and the attraction of YUPO®. Made from a single sheet, it is folded and assembled into a three-dimensional visual object with foreground, middle distance, and background in arc form. This item originated out of the client’s desire to create a promotional item that is at the same time a heartfelt gift that brings the recipient joy.

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Etsy Annual Report

This annual report is a student work for publication class at Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg, USA. Goal was to create artistic annual report that will keep one reading it from cover to cover. Booklet has 24 pages, in color. Informational and entertaining at the same time. There are total of 9 images used and over 100 of drawings that are creating the feeling of an artistic booklet that breaks out of standard form of annual report design. Some of the data is collected from a "2013 Etsy Progress Report" that is available publicly, and some of the data is fictional.

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Dicecal

The Dicecal is a 12-sided 3D calendar with an extra feature: you can also use it as multiple role-playing dice. The decorative and creative design comes very handy to everyone who, like most gamers, are often in need of various dice. Each side shows not only a month of the year with the days but also a result of a roll using a 2-3-4-6-12 sided die as well.

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