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Speeding Bearing Box

Speeding Bearing

Speeding Bearing is a storage case for the bearings of roller skates. The compact case is made of silicone, ABS and stainless steel, and opens and closes on a hinge. Storage cavities hold the bearings in stable piles, while a restraint structure in the lid limits shaking, impact and noise. A spring puller is held in a hollow part of the case and helps remove or install bearings quickly. A rubber band with hooks fastens the case closed. The lid combines frosted and transparent parts, so the contents remain visible.

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Bama Elegant Meeting Tea Packaging

Bama Elegant Meeting

Bama Elegant Meeting is a tea packaging series created for a classic Chinese tea. The design is based on four plants, plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, which represent the four gentlemen in traditional Chinese culture. Each plant is linked to a different tea variety and its character. The tea can is round and full in shape, suggesting harmony. The top of the can takes its form from the Taihu stone used in Chinese gardens, a shape associated with elegance. The packaging is made of ceramic and paper and measures 230 by 230 by 210 millimeters.

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Zhi Hou Chinese Baijiu Packaging

Zhi Hou

This is a citrus flavored Chinese Baijiu called "Zhi Hou". In Yunnan, China, people will turn good quality citrus brewing into baijiu. The raw material ratio of this product has reached the level of 20 pounds citrus brewing a pound Baijiu, so it can only be sold in limited quantity.in designed the bottle into a ball shape, and made irregular bulges at the shoulders of the bottle, so that the shape would not look so monotonous. The shape of the bottle cap, designer directly simulated the branches of citrus, when the bottle was put into the orange bag, the bottle cap would be exposed.

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Tangens Furniture Collection

Tangens

Tangens is an office furniture system that was developed with the rapidly changing work environments and today's circumstances in mind. The aim was to merge the comfort of home offices with the modularity required for modern, agile, and sustainable workspaces. The design was inspired by a focus on the value of human relationships. The metaphor of embracing also appears on the objects themselves. The curved tubular frame recalls the graphic Bauhaus world, and sustainable materials show reverence for the power of nature.

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Zhong Yuan No 1 Maojian Tea

Zhong Yuan No 1

Zhong Yuan No. 1 is a packaging design for Maojian tea, a traditional Chinese tea grown in terraced fields. Because the flavor of the tea is light and mild, the package is kept subtle and refined. The tea can is made of tinplate with embossing and gold stamping, and matte and varnish finishes are combined. The capped shape of the can recalls a tea picker wearing a hat. The outer box is made of customized paper and is closed by a shaped belt inspired by the window frames of old tea farmer houses. Real tea leaves decorate the belt.

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Xinjihao Bingdao Tea Packaging

Xinjihao Bingdao

Xinjihao Bingdao is a packaging design for a Pu'er tea grown in the primitive forests of Yunnan Province in southwest China. The theme of the design is the harmony between forest residents and nature, where people, animals and plants coexist. The red box refers to the acidic red soil in which the tea grows. Chinese calligraphy characters are used to express the strong taste of the tea. The packaging is intended to convey the natural flavor of the tropical rain forest and to give the tea a clear oriental character.

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