Project 01

Pattern Design · Branding

Liminar

Water as both surface and emotional metaphor — a scarf, a brand, and a meditation on balance, calm and coexistence.

DisciplinePattern & Surface, Brand Identity
RoleConcept, Pattern, Art Direction, Packaging
Year2025
MediumSilk scarf, print, packaging, identity
Liminar — silk scarf, full flat artwork

The concept

Through collage, memory and culture become an inner terrain.

Liminar takes water as its first principle — fluid, yielding, and quietly powerful. Drawn from the philosophy “the highest virtue is like water,” the project translates a watercolour landscape into a repeatable pattern that lives across silk, paper and skin.

The result is a small brand built on restraint: soft tonal washes, mineral neutrals, and a single recurring motif that shifts meaning as it moves from flat artwork, to folded object, to a landscape worn on the body.

Palette — Mineral neutrals

Creamy Beige#F0E5D3
Blue Gray Green#C7D7D2
Soft Sage#A9B8A0
Driftwood#7D7468
Liminar scarf — full flat artwork held against the sky
The pattern, unfolded01
Liminar scarf — knotted and hung, folded detail
Edge & selvedge detail02

The highest virtue is like water.

Beauty is the reflection of the heart
On body — headscarf styling, the landscape becomes intimate

Brand & application

On body, the landscape becomes intimate.

The identity extends the pattern into a complete object — from stationery and business cards to a folding box that opens like a horizon line. Each touchpoint repeats the same gesture: a calm surface, a fold, a reveal.

Typography stays deliberately quiet, letting the watercolour carry the emotion while the system holds everything in balance.

Liminar — scarf box, closed
Folding box03
Liminar — business cards on pattern, mountain motif
Where water meets heart — collateral system04