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Give Get Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Zodiacville Runners

Zodiacville Runners is an illustrated children's fairy tale about the animals of Zodiacville, which join a running festival hosted by the Dragon King. The illustrations combine features of traditional Korean minhwa painting with a digital pointillism style. Many faint dots were layered one by one, inspired by an oriental back-painting technique. The book measures 260 by 260 millimetres and has rounded corners for safety. Part one presents the story for children, while part two offers learning guides and supplementary material for educators.

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UIC Safety

The 2020 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is a graphic representation of the real-life collage technique. Combining seemingly-unrelated elements into a new landscape with the purpose of problem-solving, the illustrations and data representation of this document translates the complex concepts, procedures, and policies into fantastic and beautiful surreal worlds. The unfamiliar elements work in sync to simplify and materialize the diverse essence of the University of Illinois at Chicago and creates and fosters knowledge that transforms the views of the world.

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Kang Yoonsung

The book commemorates the retirement of Kang Yoonsung, a graphic designer and university professor. Since ancient times, there has been a custom in Korea to make rainbow rice cakes on auspicious occasions such as 100 days, 1st birthday, marriage, and 60th birthday. He hoped that retirement would be a feast day, not a sad day, so the concept of the book became rainbow rice cake. The book was composed of letters from 60 colleagues and disciples from Korea, China and Japan, and design work by Kang Yoonsung. The book was designed using colored paper to express the rainbow rice cake.

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Printed Food Blog

Better than Perfect is a food magazine that brings an internet food blog into printed form. The recipes are creative yet simple, and each recipe is presented on a double-page spread with large photographs and lively typography. The layout uses generous empty space and breaks common viewing habits to create visual tension. The magazine measures 22 by 31 centimetres and has 32 pages. Recycled birch paper, digital printing and thread stitching are used. An ingredients index closes the magazine and can also serve as a shopping list.

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Xicang Market

Xicang Market is a book that documents a weekly street market in Xi'an, China. The book records the objects used as stalls, the ways of displaying goods, the handwritten signs and the relationship between people and objects. The design is kept minimal so that the material is simply presented. The book is divided into eight chapters: location, market, signs, stalls, oral accounts, goods, price and vendors. Each chapter is independent and restores part of the market scene. Paper similar to the advertising flyers found at the market was chosen for one chapter.

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The Classic of Tea

The Classic of Tea is a book design based on the earliest known written record of tea. The book and its packaging are made entirely of beech wood. The central title is carved in red copper. Each page is a wooden panel that can be removed and viewed separately. The lid opens from the middle towards both sides, so the complete book can be lifted out. The pages are produced with a laser engraving machine and paint. The choice of materials refers to ancient Chinese culture, which was recorded on bamboo, wood and bronze, the same materials linked to early tea culture.

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