Day of Design

Day of Design

Day of Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Courage 2.0

The power of minimalism: stripping back to essentials. The use of clean lines, ample white space, and subtle typography creates a sense of clinical authority while enhancing legibility. A clutter-free layout allows key information to stand out: active ingredients, scientific benefits, and dermatological endorsements, fostering trust and clarity. Maximizing color dynamism: a new approach to vibrancy. The design packaging leverages fully maximized, dynamic, and vibrant colors while maintaining scientific credibility. Deep, rich tones such as navy or emerald convey dermatological expert.

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Gushu Jinzhu

Inspired by ancient wild longan trees, this design blends Eastern heritage with modern sustainability. The Heaven-Earth box showcases gold-foiled tree rings and Loong scale patterns, with engraved Twin Loong motifs. Inside, a vintage craft poster and Song Dynasty teacup pair with 4 reusable acrylic jars. By reimagining heritage elements like Celadon ceramics and Loong symbolism into modular reusable systems, the packaging balances aesthetics with circular design principles.

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Whispers of Ink

Whispers of Ink fragrance series includes scented candles, travel incense sticks and plaster diffuser stones, all of which are carefully crafted with traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage techniques. The packaging design incorporates the magnolia book element, with branches and leaves taken from the magnolia in Jiangnan gardens, and the flower shape is transformed into an open book page, creating a book with fragrance environment.

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Menhao Tea

Inspired by 19th-century botanical archives, this system reengineers tea evaluation through scientific visualization. A biological phylogenetic tree maps six tea categories with craft-tea terroir coordinates, processing timelines, and flavor matrices, establishing an academic archival framework. The archival case employs bronze hot foil stamping for botanical motifs and silver parameter indicators, while the cotton cord closure system recreates document retrieval rituals. Tactile interaction enhances historical research dimensions.

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Guo Cui Wu Du

This white spirit product, named Guocui Wudu, is from Henan Province, China. The liquor is made from five traditional Chinese medicinal materials that are soaked and brewed. On the market, competitive products more or less contain some dregs left during the brewing process. By contrast, the biggest selling point of this product is that through multiple processes, the purity of the liquor approximates a zero-impurity state, which gives consumers a stronger sense of security. Therefore, designers determined "cleanliness" as the keynote of package design to manifest the biggest feature.

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The Storyteller

The Storyteller goal is to become an augmented immersive and personal, intimist experience, through a vessel that must be held in one’s hand, fully appreciated upon glancing and handling, feeling the frosted and clear textures, the gold trims and knurl, and ultimately the obsidian details of the closure, in what is a fully sensorial and experiential bottle design. All the remaining accessories are hidden in plain sight, and only accessible from different axis of the box, only to reveal the ultimate immersive experience by fully exploring the secrets The Storyteller has to offer.

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