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Roots Zines by Xun Zuo is a winner of the 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Print and Published Media Design.

Roots is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.

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Roots Zines by Xun Zuo Bronze Print and Published Media Design Award Winner 2025

Roots Zines

This modular publication consists of zines, each crafted with a visual language reflecting the identity of storytellers. Centered around New York coffee shops, it captures how new immigrants navigate connection and belonging. The sewn and vacuum sealed format evokes impermanence and emotional tension. Through personal narratives, the project uncovers the social value of small businesses and reframes emotional design as a tool for inclusion.

Roots Zines by Xun Zuo Bronze Print and Published Media Design Award Winner 2025
Bronze Print and Published Media Design Award Winner 2025 Roots Zines
Roots designed by Xun Zuo
Roots - Bronze Print and Published Media Design Award Winner
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Bronze Print and Published Media Design Award Winner 2025 Roots Zines
Roots designed by Xun Zuo
Roots - Bronze Print and Published Media Design Award Winner
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Roots Zines

Roots is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Roots is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Roots splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.


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Xun Zuo

Xun Zuo is a multi-disciplinary designer whose work lives at the intersection of brand, environment, and culture. With a bold heart and a thoughtful brain, he crafts visually immersive experiences that resonate deeply with audiences. Specializing in visual identity systems, Xun is particularly skilled at bringing ideas to life through motion and 3D storytelling. His design language is playful, provocative, and unafraid to be direct. Over the past six years, Xun has collaborated with global brands including Nike, EA, Timberland, Don Julio, and MoMA, contributing to creative strategy, marketing, and pop-up retail design. He creates consumer-centric narratives that transform physical spaces into sensorial, immersive brand experiences. In parallel, Xun has worked with acclaimed contemporary artists such as Futura2000, Nina Chanel Abney, OJAS, and Stash. He led the environmental and experience design for the Nina Chanel Abney x Jordan x MoMA design store, and designed the physical space for CAFEAO—a concept café by Edison Chen that blends fashion, street culture, and café rituals. A coffee lover himself, Xun is fascinated by the café as a cultural and emotional hub that merges hospitality with retail. Originally from China and trained at Pratt Institute in New York, Xun brings a cross-cultural lens to every project. He is especially interested in how people from different backgrounds perceive and physically engage with design in real-world contexts. This sensitivity allows him to craft brand experiences that are not only visually striking, but also emotionally and strategically grounded. Xun is currently expanding his practice at the intersection of branding, experiential design, and fashion, leading culturally relevant projects that challenge conventional boundaries and speak directly to audiences.

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Xun Zuo is a multi-disciplinary designer whose work lives at the intersection of brand, environment, and culture. With a bold heart and a thoughtful brain, he crafts visually immersive experiences that resonate deeply with audiences. Specializing in visual identity systems, Xun is particularly skilled at bringing ideas to life through motion and 3D storytelling. His design language is playful, provocative, and unafraid to be direct. Over the past six years, Xun has collaborated with global brands including Nike, EA, Timberland, Don Julio, and MoMA, contributing to creative strategy, marketing, and pop-up retail design. He creates consumer-centric narratives that transform physical spaces into sensorial, immersive brand experiences. In parallel, Xun has worked with acclaimed contemporary artists such as Futura2000, Nina Chanel Abney, OJAS, and Stash. He led the environmental and experience design for the Nina Chanel Abney x Jordan x MoMA design store, and designed the physical space for CAFEAO—a concept café by Edison Chen that blends fashion, street culture, and café rituals. A coffee lover himself, Xun is fascinated by the café as a cultural and emotional hub that merges hospitality with retail. Originally from China and trained at Pratt Institute in New York, Xun brings a cross-cultural lens to every project. He is especially interested in how people from different backgrounds perceive and physically engage with design in real-world contexts. This sensitivity allows him to craft brand experiences that are not only visually striking, but also emotionally and strategically grounded. Xun is currently expanding his practice at the intersection of branding, experiential design, and fashion, leading culturally relevant projects that challenge conventional boundaries and speak directly to audiences.


Roots Zines by Xun Zuo Bronze Print and Published Media Design Award Winner 2025

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