Miko No Yu (Student Project)

Designer: Chiun Hau You
Project Type: Student Project
Class: Package Design I @ Taiwan Tech
Professor: Ting Chien Lin
Technical supports: Jack Liu, Sheu Yong
Packaging Content: Hot spring bath powder
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Design motivation
To re-design hot spring bath powder packaging to break off from the usual packaging that you can find in the market that are plastic and cheap looking. This is a hot spring powder packaging that can allow users to get the most pure and natural way to enjoy the hot spring.

design concept
Through the different combination of nature materials, creating a simple, natural atmosphere. In the selection of materials, Hau You used stones to represent the natural hot spring landscape, the wooden cap is a symbol of "Japanese bathing items" and by combining the two together it forms a new look and feel.

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Formosa Medicine Show by The Muddy Basin Ramblers

Creative Agency: Onion Design
Project Type: Produced, Commercial Work
Packaging Content: Music CD
Location: Taiwan

The Muddy Basin Ramblers is a jug band from Taipei, They play music from the turn of the century such as old time Jazz, blues, ragtime. This is also a concept album based on medicine show from the 1920's. so the graphic style is try to authentically represent the period of the history. The physical copy of "Formosa Medicine Show" comes wrapped in a 45-RPM record sleeve, complete with lyrics, in English with translation in Mandarin Chinese, printed on vintage newspaper-style broadsheets.

The Muddy Basin Ramblers - Formosa Medicine Show CD Packaging
Nominated for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, Best Recording Packaging
Nominated for the Taiwan's Golden Melody Award for best album packaging design
Golden Pin Design Award 2014

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TOUCHING／觸動

Creative Agency: ANGLE visual integration
Project Type: Produced, Commercial Work
Client: Baroque Camerata
Location: Taiwan
Packaging Contents: CD
Packaging Substrate / Materials:

When Teresa Teng's Oriental style old songs "encounter" Western classical music, the original meaning of the lyrics are infused into the melody of the song, while also retaining the essence of the melody. Art resulting from such an interweaving of the classical and the modern reintroduces Teresa Teng's music in all its elegance!

The oil painting of the album cover design uses multiple layers of color stacked upon each other to create a rich unique characteristic, and serves as a metaphor of new and old genres of music and philosophies overlapping each other. In addition, the unique nature of a painting corresponds with the timelessness of Teresa's music. To correspond with the name of the album, "Contact", a texture and sense of touch was added, allowing the music to not only be heard but also felt. Therefore, the notes of the music sheet printed on the clear casing have a degree of thickness, that can be felt to feel the temperature of the music. The same concept also extends to the random arrangement of transparent lamination in the lyrics book.

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Salute to BACH - Brandenburg Concertos No.3 5 6

Creative Agency: ANGLE visual integration
Project Type: Produced, Commercial Work
Location: Taiwan
Packaging Contents: CD

The Brandenburg Concertos are amongst Bach's most famous orchestral compositions. Full of a wide spectrum of different instruments and magnificently daring in its combinations, the concertos are classics that continue to be well-received in the modern world, and are also widely regarded as the pinnacle compositions of the Baroque period. Baroque music mainly refers to a style of music which was became increasingly widespread during the Renaissance, and was a type of music which saw popularity before the spread of the Classical music style. Initially, Baroque was a term used in the field of architecture, and was only gradually adopted by the arts and music. Baroque music is characterized by its extravagance and a generous use of decorative notes. Baroque music typically contains short, strongly played rhythmic patterns, and elaborate melodies.

The picture on the cover of the album has been divided geometrically, and portions of Bach's portrait and marble slabs overlap and intersect each other have been divided once again, representing the magnificence and cadence of the music. In addition, the see-through outer case with the name of the album carefully engraved onto the exterior, appear as gold-engraved text found in court buildings. Thus creating an effect that is extravagant and exquisite, yet not overly assertive, allowing one to indulge in a noble yet tasteful banquet of music.

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The Westin Taipei Mooncake

Creative Agency: Goodeed Design
Project Type: Produced, Commercial Work
Client: Leofoo Tourism Group
Location: Taiwan
Packaging Contents: Mooncake
Packaging Materials: paper, Metal

Let’s go! Return to the golden-age to celebrate Mid-Autumn festival with a mooncake suitcase.

The mooncake packaging is inspired by Travel and suitcase, just like our client “Leofoo tourism group” wanted to offer our guests with a comprehensive experience during travel, that included: warm, enthusiastic sharing, gracious hospitality, elaborate gourmet feast and thoughtful services, etc, offering everyone in the modern day the sixth auspicious quality, and this was how the name “Leofoo” (meaning 6 auspicious fortunes) came about. The packaging design with art-deco pattern inspired by orchid represents “Leofoo” brand image and elegant, leather, Bronzing and hardware fittings presents luxury and retro style.

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The Weight Of Words - Fountain Pen

Designed by Ystudio
Online Shop: KOHEZI
Location: Taiwan, Taipei

DESK FOUNTAIN PEN
The body of ystudio desk fountain pen made of brass with the solid pen holder made of cooper in a steady and smooth writing style.

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Yori Garden Cold Pressed Juice

Creative Director & Illustrator: Nio Ni
Photographer: Maxi Ho
Project Type: Produced, Commercial Work
Client: Yori Garden
Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan
Packaging Contents: Juice
Packaging Materials: Paper, plastic, stickers

The scenarios of the cold pressed juices are used for product development. The outline of YORI Garden, the way of juicing, and the concept of body cleanse are shown with colorful illustrations. This design delivers the message about health and freshness which help customers understand the product with the most intuitive way.

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Khalil Fong - Journey To The West

Designer: Chen Huang Chian
Project Type: Produced, Album Design
Client: Cros Music Ltd.
Location: Taiwan

I am grateful to have been blessed with the opportunity to experience the various aspects of what Western and Chinese cultures have to offer. As different as they may be, I identify with both and have had the chance to see the best of both worlds. Ultimately, I view myself as a world citizen and with this album, my vision was to create something that would best represent my musical experiences and be a reflection and fusion of different inspirations and cultures. Within the brand new material, I have also had many ideas and fragments of creativity over the years that I have collected for the suitable project. JTW is the first album under my new independent label and I would like to thank all of the collaborators, artists and musicians who contributed to this body of work. The album is also for all of the fans who have supported me throughout the years. Thank you for embarking on this journey. - Soulboy

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Citrus Moon - Moon Festival Giftbox

Designer: Tsan YY
Project Type: Produced, Commercial Work
Packaging Content: Moon Cakes
Location: Taiwan

The “Citrus Moon” packaging explores both the context of oriental heritage and the colors of contemporary aesthetics. Abstract watercolors on the exterior sleeve box conjoin the symbolization of the mid-autumn harvest moon, and the rounded figure of the citrus. Adding dimension to the design, the sliding motion of the sleeve box recreates the progression of different lunar phases. The interior box is a derivative of the lunar cycle. Each mooncake represents different lunar phases paired with the corresponding poetic Chinese phrases.

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Trip View Bowl

Designed by Trip View Bowl, Taiwan.

Trip View Bowl compresses the view of a specific Taiwanese landscape in a 12cm-in-diameter blue and white porcelain bowl. The three-dimensional panorama map is amazingly painted inside the bowl. Rotating the bowl will virtually take you into the sky looking down at this landscape. All famous sights and stores are also labeled in this interesting and practical souvenir so tourists could take all wonderful memories of the tour home.

Trip View Bowl displays a kind of delicacy unreachable by printed patterns or hand-drawing. You'd absolutely agree it is a piece of delicate work of art, if and even if observing it with a magnifying glass! This artwork also represents 100% Taiwan-made identity, from its creativity to the firing process, and from the bowl itself to its packaging.

In order to adhere to environmental protection, we used medium density fiberboard as packaging materials. The open design allows consumers to see, touch, and the most important thing is to protect the bowl well. The packaging can even protect a fall from five meters as it is designed to self-crumble to save the bowl from breaking.

A magnifying glass is also supplied together with the packaging so that the details can be made available to everyone. We spent six months testing, fix, find the right process, product or even months to complete on the warehouse and other packaging predicament, finally completed in accordance with the objectives we set a new packaging, and reached the following requirements:

Consumer

Can accommodate more accessories, including a magnifying glass, display, and a fish-eye aerial view.
Can accommodate a complete in English and Japanese language product information.

Environmental

Packaging reduction: improve the material utilization of 24.4%.
Brand power to change the packaging, ink reduction of 100%.
Paper vine to twine, weight reduction of 50%.
Reuse: Packaging can serve as a storage box, and can be easily stacked.
Recycling: the extension of MDF material, and asked the formaldehyde content in line with E1 standard.
All products without plastic.

Quality process requirements

Shift to CNC milling process, packaging components tolerances less than ± 0.05mm, precision 20 times better than the old packaging.
Commissioned by ISO 9000 certified professional plant assembly, packaging.
High-precision components eliminates the possibility of operator injury and increase yield.
Packaging components foolproof design mistakes to avoid assembly problems.

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Evian Lady (Student Work)

Designed by Kenneth Wong, Taiwan.

Evian lady is ideal for Fancy and trendy ladies, the bottle is formed to be slim and tall, it's fit for thier handbags (such as clutch or slingy bag)
Thus, the bottle shape is designed for delux banquet.

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Bubble Up (Student Work)

Designed by Jessie C. Chou, Taiwan.

This is the project I've been working on as a college student. The idea originally stemmed from the problem that occurred to me when trying to finish pearl milk tea.

I found that the last 5% pearl is often stuck between or beneath the ice cubes and is therefore hard to be eaten by a straw.
The hemisphere on the bottom of the cup is to separate the last 5% of pearl from the ice cubes.

All we need to do is make a little shake-up, and the pearl will be pushed to the bottom. This way, we can easily reach the straw to the remaining pearls!

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