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

 

A Is Van Os

A is van Os is a book about the history of the Latin alphabet. The book shows the development of each letter across four periods in history. The changes are drawn with clear lines and bright colours, so each transformation is easy to follow. All original letterforms were hand carved in stone and photographed, as a reference to the first letters cut in rock. The hard cover carries a stone image finished with a gravel coating, which makes the surface tactile. The book measures 240 by 240 millimetres.

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Fabric

Fabric / FAB is an Exhibition of Sustainable Fashion. The main task in developing the exhibition identity was to create a typographic style. The accidental font used in the design Concept reflects one of the central messages of the exhibition – a call to reduce consumption in the fashion sector, a call for reasonable consumption. Graphically, the solution is based on a cross-type of a pair of fonts-strictly grotesque and openwork accidental font, resembling the folds of fabric.

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FHG Brand

FHG Brand is a corporate identity designed for a manufacturer of solid-state electrochromic glass. The logo is formed by four layers of glass shapes that combine to create the letters FH, taken from the original company name. The transparency, shapes and layers of the glass pieces reflect the properties of the products. The flat and modern mark gives viewers a three dimensional impression. The identity was also built as an interior installation of about three meters in each direction, presenting the logo and the glass products together.

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Underforest: Select

Underforest: Select is a brand identity created for products of the under-forest economy in Taiwan. The logo is formed by four forest-green triangles that represent the Chinese character for forest and express the idea of coexistence with woodland. Forest-green stands for natural resources, while matte gold stands for economic potential. The packaging uses simili paper for a texture close to wood and is finished with matte gold hot foil stamping. Image integration and shared packaging standards reduce material costs and support local foresters.

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Stet

Stet is an editorial design project that proposes new forms for the printed book. The project responds to reading habits shaped by the internet, which have become non-linear while book design has remained largely unchanged. Stet includes two redesigned books, two promotional booklets, three educational booklets and a biannual publication. One book divides the content into four levels of reading with word counts and time estimates. The other book is fragmented into short sections, so reading can begin on any page. All items are printed on Mohawk paper.

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Brand design s6 Foundry

The S6 Foundry branding and its subsequent type specimen book were designed to create a joy of new typography, positioning the brand's visual language. A bright and cheerful palette of warm color and a distinctive and surprising form language captures the spirit, harking to traditional signwriting of the 1900 century fun fair. The designs were developed as a kaleidoscope of forms and elements to create the right visual consistency of the brands’ ethos and a new direction of commercial bespoke fonts.

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