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Mist, water, old trees, and a figure who is mostly there to give the scale. Notes from the quietest set in the AI Lab — and the hardest one to keep from turning into wallpaper.
October 4, 2026
Selected stories
Design thinking, identity, packaging, and visual systems.
Ramen, sushi, hot pot and dim sum — a pop-art series about girls who actually eat. Why we painted the food before the faces, and how a bowl of broth became the loudest thing on the page.
September 14, 2026
New from LOKKI: Bora-Bora, a limited-edition gift box that turns turquoise water, warm sunlight and palm shade into something you can actually hold. A look at how the packaging came together.
August 21, 2026
Design
15 development entries
design
Doing It Again in Red: Objects Recount the Years
The first version was elegant and slightly dead. Three weeks later we rebuilt it in colour — porcelain cracks, wood grain, bamboo weave, and a red line we kept by accident.
October 20, 2026
design
Punk Cosmic Portraits: Covers for Comics That Don't Exist
Punk, astronauts and vintage motorcycles, printed like covers for books nobody wrote. How one rule — the portrait has to look like it's selling something — built a whole series.
October 15, 2026
design
Old Dreams of Palace Walls: A Wall That Never Answers
Four posters about a red wall, twenty minutes of orange light, and two people who never turn around. Notes on blank space, small figures and one lantern instead of seven.
October 10, 2026
design
Wander in Mountain Dreams: Six Scenes About Stillness
Mist, water, old trees, and a figure who is mostly there to give the scale. Notes from the quietest set in the AI Lab — and the hardest one to keep from turning into wallpaper.
October 4, 2026
design
Objects Narrate the Years: When a Rain Cape Becomes a Cliff
Four old objects, one very small person, and a museum case that made a straw cape look like a cliff. Notes on scale, gold ink, and two posters that never quite worked.
September 28, 2026
design
Y2K Cool Girl: Every Shot Is From Below
A camera on the floor, a sole in the foreground, hair doing the work of a graphic shape. How eight illustrations turned a decade into a posture — and why that posture sells.
September 21, 2026
design
Luxury Advent Calendar Packaging: Engineering Twelve Windows
Fifteen paper trials, twelve die-cut windows and a foil that kept cracking at the corners. How a Christmas countdown box was built to be kept in February rather than binned in January.
September 19, 2026
design
Food Girl Pop: Appetite Is a Colour Problem
Ramen, sushi, hot pot and dim sum — a pop-art series about girls who actually eat. Why we painted the food before the faces, and how a bowl of broth became the loudest thing on the page.
September 14, 2026