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The Fridge is a creative
practice of Tian Bai, an award-winning art director, designer based in Paris. With over
a decade of professional experience across France and China, he has developed a multidisciplinary expertise spanning branding, packaging, editorial, digital, advertising,
and experiential design.

His work has been recognized by some of the industry’s most respected institutions, including D&AD Awards, The One Club for Creativity, ADC Annual Awards, New York Type Directors Club, New York Festivals Advertising Awards, Tokyo TDC, Red Dot Design Award, and Asia-Pacific Design.

Driven by a deep appreciation for visual culture, conceptual thinking, Tian approaches each project as a space for exploration, seeking nuance, narrative, and emotion within the design process. His work aims to transcend functionality, shaping experiences that are both visually compelling and intellectually resonant.

ProjectNIO Phone
NIO Phone, a flagship phone launched by NIO in 2023, features high performance, aesthetic pleasure and easy operation, which satisfies constantly diversifying needs of users and aims to improve users’ living quality via technological achievements. It also supports connection to NIO vehicles with one button, and thus helps the owners control in-vehicle infotainment systems more conveniently. Such a product is not only a mobile phone, 
but also a link between users and NIO vehicles.

Category: Electric Mobility
Client: NIO, Shanghai
Year: 2022
Role: Art Direction
Credit: NIO Smart Technology Co., Ltd.




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