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Before the Midnight Hour

A series of black and white illustrations commissioned by Marc Krusin and featuring his most prominent furniture designs for Knoll and Desalto. Inspired by comics and noir cinema, the project breaks the conventions of furniture illustration by bringing narrative to the scenes, use of exaggerated perspective and a moody noir aesthetic. The lack of human presence and scattered objects add an element of mystery and suspense to the story, while the protagonist is revealed in a surprise ending. All images were drawn digitally in Adobe Photoshop using Wacom Cintiq tablet.

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XinJiHao Puer

In the process of taking out the ten-year-old tea cake stored in the internal dry warehouse, consumers open the tea box from the golden cross line, as if opening the golden age of ten years. The mountain pattern in the outer box and the three-dimensional mountain sculpture in the inner pot represent the mountain that the tea passed through in the process of transportation and the mountain that gave birth to the tea respectively, making the ancient Pu'er tea a container with unique memory.

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Kerloso Wine

Kerloso Wine is a packaging design for a red wine from Chile. The label shows the scene sailors saw when they first landed on Easter Island, including stone statues, a volcano, flowers, a deer and birds. The bottle is wrapped in natural imitation rice paper, bound with straw rope and decorated with a piece of natural bluestone, the same material as the Moai statues. The top of the paper is burned by real flame, so each mark is unique. Different colors mark different grape types. The wrapped bottle stands about 35 centimeters high.

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By Beth

The agency was commissioned to create a visual identity system and packaging design, including a bespoke vessel for this luxury atelier. Where possible all materials were selected based on their environmental credentials, ranging from the use of post-consumer waste, FSC papers and soy-based inks. The packaging uses a colour palette of dark green and light pastel hues, high quality materials, structures and subtle print finishes to create a tangible sense of both luxury and prestige.

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Li Beer

Li is a gift packaging design for beer. The glass bottle takes its shape from the Shuang-Er-Ni-Yu pottery bottle unearthed at the Yangshao cultural site. Carvings on the surface resemble traditional water ripples and fish stripes. An embossing technique is applied to the package, so the texture can be felt by touch. Elegant images and archaic fonts add a sense of history. The package is opened by tearing off the top seal. The design celebrates the early history of beer brewing in China and the traditional Chinese recipe used for the beer inside.

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The Pompadour

The Pompadour is a fragrance packaging design inspired by the classic English barbershop. The outer box uses a checkered pattern drawn from barbershop floors, and the leather box opens in a way that recalls sitting in a barber chair. The bottle is a clear glass cylinder with vertical grooves, and a red, white and blue helix rotates as the bottle is unscrewed. A printed sheet in a serif font presents product information in the style of an old newspaper. The bottle holds a refillable capsule, and the outer packaging is made of recyclable materials.

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