2025 / Passion in Every Frame

Douyin Jingxuan

Douyin is home to vast amounts of high-quality content, but lacked a clear way to make that quality visible. This project transformed the defining qualities of great videos—light, movement, highlights, and craft—into a distinctive visual identity that helps valuable content stand out.

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A Layered Approach to Visual Elevation

The upgraded visual system was constructed through four progressive layers: Background → Hero Content → Brand Endorsement → Video-inspired Details

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The visual system combines layered motion textures, light-led focal points, refined brand symbols, and progress-bar details to make content quality visible. Together, these elements create a distinctive and scalable identity that highlights the most valuable moments within each piece of content.

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Brand System

The brand system combines a structured grid with a custom typographic language derived from Douyin’s core typeface. Distinctive serif details and mixed-type compositions create a clear connection to the parent brand while giving Douyin Select a more refined and recognizable identity.

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Brand Application

Clear ToB and ToC style guidelines translated the brand’s core idea—making quality visible—into consistent design principles, helping suppliers deliver more refined and recognizable outputs across touchpoints.

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Brand StrategyZiyin Chen Shoudao Zhou

Brand Identity, AI Prompting, Motion GraphicsZiyin Chen

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