We are hiring

LTD (www.ltdhk.com) is looking for a designer with the talent and commitment to solidly assist our team across the range of our studio’s projects.

We are one of Hong Kong's most respected graphic design studios, with a track record in developing creative communications solutions for blue chip corporations, major retail brands, financial institutions, publishers, hotels and restaurants. Known for our extremely high visual communication standards and professional integrity, we provide clients with creatively robust solutions to their communications problems. Our work spans brand identity, corporate literature, Web site design, environmental graphics and product design.

Requirements :
• Proven track record of at least two years of studio/agency experience
• Proven educational background in graphic design, fine arts and the arts.
• Solid understanding of typography.
• Ability to visualize concepts with good drawing skills.
• Fluency in spoken and written English and Chinese.
• Web design skills and programming knowledge.

Interested parties please email your CV to careers@ltdhk.com

Qualification : University / College Degree
Years Experience : 2 to 3 Years
Job Category : Graphic Design, Branding
Job Type : Full Time Permanent / Project Base
Salary : Negotiable

The last day of ferry from Hung Hom

As a Hung Hom residents, I'm surely disappointed to see this slow-paced, old-fashioned and romantic habour crossing vehicle gone. I took ferry to work everyday until today and that 15 minutes on board had been one of the mood setting moment of the day, catching the breeze and the smell of the sea.

Also gone are some old-schooled stenciled type.

I thought they would have thrown a party to farewell this long-servicing pier; Instead, it just vanished quietly, with just a few more people taking pictures

by Vince

Wishing you a happy and healthy year of the Rabbit

In keeping with today's spirit of recycling, and noting how quickly twelve years have flown by, we're pleased to re-send our previous Year of the Rabbit e-card (vintage 1999). The card was one in our series of annually anticipated Chinese New Year's cards featuring first Jinx (who lived to the ripe age of 18) and subsequently Katz, who is 12.  Kung hei!

Please click below to see our past cards:
http://www.ltdhk.com/ltd_cny_2002/jinx.html

That's Italian

We recently wrapped up an identity project for a casual Italian restaurant - Bene Italian. We pasted up dozens of photocopies of our interior wall design in sections in order to review it in full scale. We were asked to create a modern-retro look, with authentically Italian visual ingredients.

The application on glass.

We also did the hoarding, in a very short time.

Details of Bene Italian's consumer identity at ltdhk.com

How high the spoon

LTD recently produced a poster for the restaurant W52, for which we previously created the identity and interior walls. It is now installed at the 3rd level of the glass-walled elevator shaft, where VIP diners are put into a relaxed mood.

Yes, it looks as great in our office.

Bronze winner of the 2010 DFA Awards

LTD took Bronze in the 2010 Design for Asia Awards, organized by The Hong Kong Design Centre. The DFA Awards are "presented to companies and designers from around the world that have achieved business success through good design that reflects, or has an impact on, the Asia lifestyle."

This year there were about 650 entries. LTD won in the "Identity and Branding" category for its work on the Zelo Bar & Restaurant in Pacific Place. As the Award citation puts it, "The branding... illustrates how design can simultaneously be eco and edgy. The entire identity – including menus, hoarding and other collaterals – reflects the restaurant's 'eco-chic' and 'recycled-chic' concepts in a way that is sure to provide diners with food for thought and inspire other designers in this environmentally aware era."

Details of Zelo's consumer identity and exteriors at ltdhk.com

GUOFULOU

Identity for an upmarket Chinese restaurant. LTD also designed the restaurants carpeting in keeping with the contemporary Chinese interiors.

More details at ltdhk.com

Poster for Kagyu Monlam Life Release

LTD designed the poster for the "Life Release" event of the 7th Hong Kong Kagyu Monlam. The symbol in the center of the palm, designed by His Holiness the 17^th Karmapa, is that of Kagyu Monlan, an annual prayer meeting held at the Buddhist holy site of Bodhgaya. The symbol signifies mankind and nature joining hands and expresses the principle that we are not giving up on planet earth, which has immeasurably benefited all beings.