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Visions Of Future  Digital Installation

Visions Of Future

Visions of Future is an interactive digital installation created for an exhibition booth. Optical sensors detect the presence of a visitor and place the visitor at the center of the experience. Five scenarios with real-time abstract graphics play in a cycle while the visitor stays inside the interaction area. The architecture combines LED screen blocks, glass blocks, neon lights and frames with concrete, glass and dark matte wood. Depth data from a motion camera is processed and visualized in real time. The installation expresses the idea of services that surround the user.

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Gogoon Alcoholic Beverage Packaging

Gogoon

Gogoon is a bottle and packaging design for baijiu, a Chinese distilled spirit. The bottle has a simple cylindrical form that expresses purity. The shoulder carries a hammer pattern that refers to careful craftsmanship. The body is finished with a fine daylight grain texture that reflects light across the surface. The cap combines metal, leather grain and wood, giving a plain shape a rich texture. The bottle measures 75 mm in width, 75 mm in depth and 260 mm in height. The design presents baijiu in a light luxury style for a new group of consumers.

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Miniature Size Landscape Photography

Miniature Size Landscape

Miniature Size Landscape is a photography series that presents small natural scenes as if they were vast worlds. Grasses, mosses, flowers and other plants growing at the feet of passers-by become the setting. A one inch tall dwarf figure travels through each scene, and every view is composed as if seen through the eyes of that dwarf. The images are made with a wide macro lens, focus stacking for deep focus, and linear, occlusive and aerial perspective. The aim is to recall the imagined worlds of childhood and to encourage care for nature.

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Cut and Paste Branding

Cut and Paste

This project toolkit, Cut and Paste: Preventing Visual Plagiarism, addresses a topic that can affect everyone in the design industry and yet visual plagiarism is a topic that is seldom discussed. This could be due to the ambiguity between taking reference from an image and copying from it. Therefore, what this project proposes is to bring awareness to the grey areas surrounding visual plagiarism and position this at the forefront of conversations around creativity.

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AURUM genuine gold leaves Gold Leaves Packaging

AURUM genuine gold leaves

Aurum is a gift box designed for edible gold leaf. The packaging presents a raw material as a premium retail product. The box structure refers to jewelry packaging. An anodized golden metal plate with the engraved brand name seals the box and works as a magnetic lock. Textured paper, gold foil stamping and spot UV form the outer surface. A ribbon in the top layer holds a bespoke tweezer, so the very light gold leaf can be picked up easily. A translucent sheet protects the gold leaf below. The box measures 88 by 90 by 65 millimeters.

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Inside Muses Book

Inside Muses

Inside Muses is a book created for K11 Musea, a retail and dining space in Hong Kong that promotes contemporary art and design. The publication features works from the four muses of the retail concept: Architecture, Furniture, Nature and Art. Storytelling, illustration and photography present each theme, and the unconventional format invites readers to explore new perspectives. Circle graphics on the cover represent the spheres of the four muses. The regular edition is hand sewn, while the hardcover edition is encased in a clear acrylic box similar to a display vitrine.

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