Design Gift

The Ink Of Life

The background of this design is that designers observed when people use pencils, there will be imagination about pencil consumption and transformation. The consumption of pencils is actually what designers are trying to create, and they always hope that the result of this kind of creation is good. Therefore, they create a kind of beautiful disappearance to present the poetic imagination of consumption, so that people can feel the beautiful shape change and the beautiful imagination of pencil.

Table Dancers

This product consists of a series of stationeries which is inspired by a dancer wearing red shoes. The stationeries include a pair of compasses, a paper knife, an eraser and a tape measure. The compasses are inspired by a ballet dancer and the paper knife is like a "skater" on the paper. The eraser has three layers, from skin to flesh to bone marrow. The tape measure is pulled out from the barrel part of the shoe as if it is an elegant and slim leg.

Idea And Plan

Idea and Plan series are designed to ease the daily burden of keeping track of to-do lists, organizations, meetings and ideas. The design process started by studying various bullet journals, organizers and sketch notebooks from different brands’, followed by a Q&A among friends and family to get a better grasp on different ways of listing and sketching. Idea and Plan series needed a different perspective. Through word play, contrasting colors, typography and self explanatory content, the series were designed to add a splash of color and fun to one’s daily responsibilities.

Fume

Top Scholar Pen

Transforming regular stationery into one that bears historic meaning, while maintaining its user functionality in current times, is the biggest challenge. The Top Scholar Pen Set design took references from ancient Chinese imperial examination practices, scholar culture and moral values. Pen cap resembles the top hat wore by scholars in the past. Pen barrel was designed like the Cim bucket or fortune telling sticks holder. The pens, similar to fortune sticks and written with blessings in calligraphy strokes, represents luck for users to excel in performance during tests.

Four Treasures of the Study

Four Treasures of the Study - with simple and pure deliveries of writing, the messages and heritage at all times can always be extended and passed down: brush, ink, paper, and ink stone are the four indispensible mediums of tool for the refined scholars. They use these mediums for expressing diversified manners of interpretation and performance: writing in flying strokes, reciting poems, and singing willows.