Design Manner

Design Manner

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

 

Shenzhen Jiangangshan Hill Park

Henri Rousseau's impressionist style is ingeniously applied as the main visual elements into this project. Wayfinding signs are designed as interesting impressionist-illustration silhouettes here and there in the park, creating a tranquil eco-friendly hilly aura for visitors. The artist's thoughts and the project's purposes are brought into resonance by the concept of harmony between human and nature.

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OCT Happy Hour

Corbusier architectural language is well extracted and expressed in the wayfinding-sign design in this project. In general, the whole rough bold appearance is featured by exaggerated crude concrete components and exposed unfinished structures and facilities; in detail, cool shadows of heavy metal materials produce artistic 3D visual effects, conveying a powerful sense of minimalism.

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Success Long Run

Their design used just one poster, presented both horizontally and vertically, which are adapted to the two display methods in English and Chinese language, whilst expressing the same semantics. The distinct red ribbon is an ingenious connection between the English quote, road ahead IS (long) and hard and the Chinese quote, dao zu qie (chang).

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Mamba Chiliast

Mamba Chiliast (MC) is a basketball community for Kobe Bryant's fans who believe in the Mamba Mentality. It organizes fans through basketball activities and provide fans with a sense of belonging, pride and distinction. The eye in the logo, representing the Mamba, with the letters M and C combine to form the hexagonal shape, which stimulates deeper collective memories about religion, organization, and energy. This design helps the community build the spiritual and powerful brand image.

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The Moment

The Moment Calendar was inspired by the ancient wisdom of Chinese Solar Terms and Ecclesiastes in Bible, which aim to express the reflection of impetuous society and remind people to know the season and to enjoy the moment. Therefore, there is a new design expression to present the past, now and future. Month is printed in the center of the page while date is shown on a gradient arc. Dates and arcs rotate clockwise around the center and fade away due to the translucent paper, which poetically draws a picture: the eternity of time is a series of the present moments. So, let’s enjoy The Moment.

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Zacapa Reserva Limitada 2019

forceMAJEURE Design was asked to bring the Reserva Limitada liquid to life through the packaging. The brown label with rich gold foil lettering complements the amber and golden hues of the liquid. The signature petate band, handwoven in special colors for this edition by local Guatemalan craftswomen, proudly wraps around the bottle. For the canister, designers blended washes of colors and textures inspired by the lush Guatemalan landscape. The petate band, as well as the Master Blender’s signature band with tasting notes, are recreated on the canister in a gold graphic interpretation.

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