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The Fridge is the creative portfolio of Tian Bai, an award-winning creative based in Paris.

With over a decade of experience across France and China, his practice moves across branding and campaigns through a broad visual language spanning identity systems, 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, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, The One Club for Creativity, The ADC Annual Awards, New York Type Directors Club, New York Festivals Advertising Awards, Tokyo TDC, Red Dot Design Award, HiiiBrand Awards 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.

ProjectTrace
Trace is an experimental typeface shaped by the tension between appearance and disappearance.

Its letterforms resist permanence, emerging as fragments, outlines, and fleeting impressions rather than stable structures. The result is a typographic language that feels fluid and atmospheric—less concerned with precision than with sensation, memory, and movement.

By treating typography as a temporal experience, Trace explores how meaning can be conveyed not only through form, but through transformation itself.

Category: Typeface, Experiment
Client: Experimental Project
Year: 2025
Creative & Type Design: Tian Bai
Crative Motion: Frederic Granon




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