Commissioned to design a new logo for the Japan Northeast Chinese Student and Scholar Association, a cross-regional network of Chinese students in Japan’s Tohoku area. The organization needed a formal, culturally readable, and long-term identity.

Invited by the Tohoku University Student Association, I designed a logo for their newly founded outdoor activity club, Aoba Walkers.

After realizing that I had to start creating right away, I began a series of daily drawing practices — simple scenes from my everyday life, without any set theme or plan. I simply drew what I could, each day. Over time, these fragments began to connect naturally, forming a continuous thread — a series that seemed to grow on its own.

What began as a favor for a friend’s single cover turned into a complete design exercise.