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Wrote Avenue Miles
There is no need to talk about each object – but whatever they do should talk carefully. This is a philosophy that drives Chinese-based, US-based designer Yepan Leu, whose latest projects seek to equip the daily objects for sensitive anchors and mindful action.
Following a string of international design awards to recognize his past work in Augmented Reality Museum and Interactive Design, Liu is now focusing on his attention slowly, focusing on the more touching form. Objects and packaging ideas in his new series explore the conduct, cultural storytelling and sensitive durability.
A calendar you simply don’t flip – you are feeling
Liu’s The letters of wild times A storytelling calendar designed around the endangered animal species. Each month is a sealed envelope as a portrait of a risky creature, including a letter written in the voice of that species.
However, this is not a simple calendar. Users are invited to read, reflect and then respond. Each letter is exposed to the user in a permanent calendar with an empty space to write a day in a circle and personal environment. The experience is to yourself or someone else – the user envelope ends with sealing and mailing.
From opening the drawer-style box to folding the calendar in size, each step is made as a soft ritual-users are not only to organize time, but to identify the objective. A QR code on the back links each card with a real-world conservation initiative, encourages users’ sympathy into action.
Six tea, six aromas, six moments break
In another project, Liu brings a philosophy of Traditional Chinese tea in a contemporary experience of a contemporary incense. Six An olfactory and packaging system where each incense chip is different types of tea and matches over the day of the day. The product includes not only perfume, but also a booklet, custom brush, biodegradable ash tray and time-marking stickers.
Using the small brush as the users illuminate the incense, the shades of the tray gently blow, their mood, energy level and the time of the day to match the scent related. The packaging system receives inspiration from the folding herbal manual and tea book, the description of each scent is connected to a Traditional Tihant Chinese “Schichen” (2 hours’ time section).
The result is an immersion, multi-sensitive experience that connects the odor, texture and micro-action to a compact daily.
Designed with sympathy – and intention
In contrast to the trend-focused design, he says “sensitive usage” on the leure method-focuses on it-how people make it felt as they use it, and over time it gently encourages the behavior. His projects often include folding cards, brushes, interactive material and requests for reflection-all poetic, soft-touch materials framed.
“When I design,” Liu explains, “I’m thinking of the person who will use it in their quiet moments. What are they feeling? What do they need?” This philosophy informs its material preferences, packaging logic and story passing – a mixture of graphic design, art structure and sensitive intelligence.
In the dominant launches from rewards winning
Although Liu has already won numerous awards (Indigo, DNA Paris, London Design Awards, IDA Gold), he is not stopping the trophies. Starting in the second half of 2025, Liu will join the design studio lights as a product designer, where he will develop these traditional projects further and help expand the studio to the experience of a similar emotional powered product. On the crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indigogo. The goal is to introduce sensitive durability and cultural heritage to a more extensive conversation through design, not just for acquiring traction.
In addition to self-initiative projects, effective packaging of pets for Liu well-being brands is effective with hostile packaging, yet sensitive resonant products are cooperating with distinct brands in designs.
Quiet objects, permanent effects
As Liu proceeded on his creative journey he focused on a key question: Can small conducts lead to real changes? With the packaging that speaks and those who listen, Yepan Liu is designing a new type of design practice in silence – it’s not in a volume, but in resonance.
His further work and design philosophy can be found in Yefandsine.
