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Discover 745 award-winning designs tagged Graphic on Design Bulletin.

Spectrum Illustration

Spectrum

Spectrum is a digital illustration that depicts Japanese street fashion in the style of Japanese anime. The work avoids photorealism and applies vivid colors in a flat manner that still appears optically natural. The background represents the neon lights of Tokyo, with forms boldly simplified for a sharp, flat and luminous effect. Elements of Western graphic design are combined with Japanese character illustration. Spectrum was drawn with Adobe Photoshop CC. The intent is to make the style clear to audiences inside and outside Japan.

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Home Poster

Home

The poster uses simple black and white graphic visual language and humorous presentation form to give the audience a vivid visual experience. Through the nesting of birds, no branch material can be found for nesting. Instead, plastic straws are used as nesting materials, reflecting the serious environmental damage. It is hoped that the audience can think about the deterioration of the environment, and also call on people to pay more attention to protecting the environment and forests.

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Longgang District Environment Graphic

Longgang District

Designers pondered and studied how to make the environment more harmonious with people, make the city more suitable for people to use, make the space more consistent with visual, tactile, auditory and other sensory experiences, and integrate general design concepts to incorporate the urban detail design of everyone can live a happy life into the core content of the design, hoping to realize social value, humanistic value and public welfare value in the project, so that the society will be better because of the design.

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Xing Yun Shu Dessert

Xing Yun Shu

Xing Yun Shu is a brand identity created for a dessert producer. The design conveys the idea of luck found in traditional Chinese culture through a new visual language. Abstract figures built from compact points, lines and planes replace complex traditional Chinese patterns, and the simplified forms still carry the meaning of good fortune. A festive pairing of red and green is combined with Chinese characters to give the tradition a fresh appearance. The intention is to build a warm and positive feeling toward the dessert brand.

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20th Anniversary Logo

20th Anniversary

20th Anniversary is a logo created for the College of Arts at Northeastern University of China. The logo marks twenty years since the founding of the college. The design combines the number 20 with images of a windmill, flowers and ribbons. The four ribbons refer to the four main programs of the college. The logo is produced with four-color printing, bronzing and indentation techniques. The mark is applied to printed documents, souvenirs and cultural products. The aim is to share the celebration with alumni in China and abroad.

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Pattern Play Playing Cards Calendar

Pattern Play

Pattern Play is a set of playing cards and a calendar designed to bring color into daily life. The playing cards carry 54 unique illustrations in place of standard suits. The court cards are inspired by kaleidoscopes, while the number cards show irregular patterns and shapes. The cards are printed on 310 gsm waterproof black core stock with a matte finish and rounded corners. The calendar enlarges 12 of the artworks on 250 gsm specialty paper with a tear-off line, so each sheet can also be used as a poster. The design aims to add positivity to ordinary days.

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Sparrow Branding Corporate Identity

Sparrow Branding

Sparrow Branding is a corporate identity created for a Tokyo-based advertising production company founded in 2020. The identity covers the logo, the main visuals and the stationery. A sparrow, the origin of the company name, is shown with a pine tree as the symbol tree. The concept comes from a story in which a pine tree protects a sparrow from all harm. Real pine branches, arranged by a flower arrangement artist, and a realistic sparrow model were photographed instead of using computer graphics. The visual tone is strong and serious rather than cute.

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Second Hand Life Poster

Second Hand Life

Second Hand Life is a poster series about the way people receive fragmented information. The series contains twenty A3 posters, arranged to form one main visual, and is accompanied by a mounted and bound book. Language is turned into visual graphics through binary code, where the symbols one and zero also stand for true and false in logical operations. This link reflects how judgement is shaped by the information that is accepted. The posters and the book ask for closer attention to a social issue, because a fragmented view of information can replace a complete one.

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Miga Brand Design

Miga

Miga is a brand identity design developed for an electronic cigarette brand. The updated identity refines the typeface and unifies the logo, giving an immediate brand impression. For the Latin letters, stroke ratios and corner angles are adjusted so the logo relates closely to a smile symbol and recalls the outline of melon vines. For the Chinese characters, strokes are combined with the same symbols and the spacing is regulated, producing rounded and readable forms. The vector logo can be printed at any size and used on light or dark backgrounds.

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Inspiration Season Main Vision

Inspiration Season

Inspiration Season is the main visual design for a design forum held at an urban creative park in Hangzhou. The park was converted from a former chemical fibre factory, and blue wool yarn was chosen to link the past and the present of the buildings. The static poster measures 841 by 594 millimetres, while the motion poster lasts ten seconds in a vertical format. Real hanging wool was filmed in 4K with a camera and slide rails, then edited, colour graded and composed. The shaking of the yarn expresses the moment of inspiration.

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Dalian Seafood Logo and Brand

Dalian Seafood

Dalian Seafood is a brand identity and packaging design for ready-to-eat marine products. The logo and its derivative graphics are applied to a single package, a long pull-out gift box holding three small boxes, and packaging cans. Abstract illustrations are drawn from the features of different sea creatures and arranged in repeated and staggered layouts. Bright color contrasts give the series a fresh appearance. The packaging is digitally printed with a matte finish on recyclable materials, and the pull-out gift box is easy to open.

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It Is In Your Genes Dynamic Identity

It Is In Your Genes

This brand identity was created for a genotyping service, by which predisposition to possible genetic diseases can be detected. Just like the DNA structure, the design concept was also built upon a system of codes, namely specially designed Morse codes representing the letters of alphabet. Any word can be visualized this way, turning a static logo into a dynamic identity. The logo, which is the name of the Client written by the codes, takes the double-helical structure shape of the DNA. This is how the business of the Client is reflected both conceptually and visually in the identity.

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