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Gung Ho Illustration

Gung Ho

Gung Ho is a cover illustration created for the French deluxe edition of the comic series Gung Ho. The artwork avoids the drawn black outline used in most comics and applies a cut-out collage approach that keeps the image clear. Silhouettes are treated with colour to create an expressionistic impression that supports the tone of the story. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic southern Europe where survival depends on fortified settlements. The image captures a moment of danger, youthful courage and released teenage adrenaline. The digital artwork was made with a graphics tablet.

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SP Saffron Grotesk Type Specimen

SP Saffron Grotesk

Saffron is an elegant contemporary neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface with strong stylistic geometric contrasts, drawing on the aesthetics and the typographic standards of Swiss modernism. The distinctive wide-open stance was designed to give the right visual consistency for branding and communications. This authentic and original typeface represents a shifting contemporary aesthetics. The specimen is divided into sections, with ring binder posters inside the pack.

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Moscow Ambassadors School Typographic Brand Identity

Moscow Ambassadors School

Interesting stories are hidden behind every turn of the old streets and it is impossible to associate the City with any one minimal set of recognizable symbols. While studying the city, the future ambassador discovers it anew, like a student discovers a primer at school. For the construction of the identity, a typographic solution was chosen, based on the principle of typographic eclecticism: the Old National script, interspersed with the cursive script and recognizable fonts of the avant-garde artists. The color scheme is laconic-bright red.

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Tsubasa.Y Brand Integration

Tsubasa.Y

Tsubasa.Y is a vintage selection shop, that in the piles of clothing of different times, looking for the exclusive taste of different self, constantly experimenting and merging, producing a fashion sound that this generation has never had before, just like the name of Tsubasa (wing), leading the ancient fascination to fly in the different clothes between the texture and the story. This case packs the shop's identification, packaging, and print design.

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Poster Visual Poster

Poster Visual

Audio Technica Excellence is a poster series created for an audio equipment brand. The design places natural grass and seeds beside the precise mechanical parts of audio products. Both elements are arranged flat, so their shapes and fine colors can be compared in detail. All images were composed from photographs taken for the project. The texture refers to an old handwritten vegetation picture book, a choice made because the brand's products are analogue. The posters present sound as a natural part of human life.

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Kanji Posters

Kanji

The Kanji shapes and strokes represent the initial state and infinite existence of the surroundings. Inspired by the brushstrokes of Chinese calligraphy, the study of contextual ideas, the blend of styles, and cultural attention, the inclusive mentality of the spaces in between the shapes conferred by the strokes shows exquisite elegance and luxuriant cultural implications of Chinese calligraphy. Each poster is made out of a combination of the traditional Chinese element, bringing all the inspirations together and creating a unique, delicate Chinese style of impressionism.

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