Trellis
- Client: Trellis Church (2025)
- Scope: Bilingual visual system & publication design (English/Chinese)
- Role: Brand Designer, Art Direction & Publication Design
about the project
Trellis is a bilingual devotional calendar designed for churches, families, and individuals seeking daily spiritual reflection. The challenge was to create a visual experience that felt contemplative and functional while working equally well in English and Chinese.
I developed a bilingual visual system spanning typography, color, illustration, and layout. The system needed to unify the full calendar while giving individual verses and illustrations room to express their own themes and emotional tone.
The key challenge was balancing two typographically distinct languages without allowing one to dominate the other. Every decision was built around clarity, visual harmony, and a calm experience that supports reflection rather than competing with it.
I developed a bilingual visual system spanning typography, color, illustration, and layout. The system needed to unify the full calendar while giving individual verses and illustrations room to express their own themes and emotional tone.
The key challenge was balancing two typographically distinct languages without allowing one to dominate the other. Every decision was built around clarity, visual harmony, and a calm experience that supports reflection rather than competing with it.
VISUAL SYSTEM
Typography:
PP Editorial New brings warmth and editorial character to English content, while Yu Gothic UI provides clean, contemporary clarity for Chinese. The pairing was selected not only for readability, but to create equal visual weight between both languages across headlines, scripture, and supporting content.
Color Palette:
The palette was built around calm, natural tones that support reflection while creating enough contrast for navigation and hierarchy. Teal Blue anchors the system, Muted Taupe provides neutral structure, and Sage Green connects to themes of nature and growth.
Cream, olive, and golden accents extend the palette across illustrations and supporting elements, giving individual pages flexibility while maintaining a recognizable visual language throughout the calendar.
PP Editorial New brings warmth and editorial character to English content, while Yu Gothic UI provides clean, contemporary clarity for Chinese. The pairing was selected not only for readability, but to create equal visual weight between both languages across headlines, scripture, and supporting content.
Color Palette:
The palette was built around calm, natural tones that support reflection while creating enough contrast for navigation and hierarchy. Teal Blue anchors the system, Muted Taupe provides neutral structure, and Sage Green connects to themes of nature and growth.
Cream, olive, and golden accents extend the palette across illustrations and supporting elements, giving individual pages flexibility while maintaining a recognizable visual language throughout the calendar.
Calendar Design
The calendar became the primary application of the visual system. A consistent grid, typographic hierarchy, illustration style, and color framework create continuity across the year while allowing individual pages to reflect different scriptural themes.
Selected verses were paired with minimalist, nature-inspired illustrations developed through research into their themes and emotional tone. The artwork adds expression without disrupting the larger visual system.
The final design balances devotion and daily planning while ensuring English and Chinese remain equally readable, considered, and visually integrated.
Selected verses were paired with minimalist, nature-inspired illustrations developed through research into their themes and emotional tone. The artwork adds expression without disrupting the larger visual system.
The final design balances devotion and daily planning while ensuring English and Chinese remain equally readable, considered, and visually integrated.
