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

 

Alien 3.0

Alien 3.0 is a limited edition of 12 copies created specially by order of French Auction House. Each piece is entirely made by hands on Italian family manufacture. Inspired by stories about extraterrestrial beings it was created in connection with the new kind of shape and perfect finishing. Several layers of lacquering gives a depth to a color and mirror reflection to the surface. Alien 3.0 has an eye-catching shape and can be the right design accent in every style interior. Alien 3.0 is an object of desire for collectors.

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Whale skeleton

The whale skeleton staircase demonstrates the ability of the design to draw on biological forms in nature. This staircase stands out the uniqueness of the form derived from the ribs and vertebrae stylized, transformed and domesticated if necessary, to revive in a suitable environment, all the power and the effect that it can create a sculpture of this kind. This project comes in the discovery of procedural forms while maintaining the essentiality stages of construction. As a human skeleton or animal, everything is supported in an elegant, light appearance, but strong and durable as a whole.

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Lale

The designer, Michael Parson, has long been curious of the possibilities that Opentype scripts now offer type designers. Thanks to this technology, design is no longer limited to the basic forms but can be enhanced with additional glyphs, ligatures or other features. He wanted to explore how to integrate these options into the less explored world of dingbat fonts. The resulting font, Lale offers a range of visuals that can be accessed by simply typing a sequence of signs, either letters; for the flowers, or numbers, for the stems. Both can be combined for a total of 4680 combinations.

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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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