Bullshit x malt
Cultural & Creative Products / 2021

2021 is the Year of the Ox in China. Atelier 2M2 was invited to design a New Year gift for the online aesthetic platform maltm.com. The ox is a symbol of diligence and wealth in China. The bull market implies a good stock market trend, but its homonym is 牛屎_Bullshit.

Atelier 2M2 hopes to welcome the new year and various unknown challenges in a relaxed way. They responded to the proverb “flowers stuck in cow dung” in a humorous way: they made a gold brick with the word Bullshit, so that this gift contains the dual meanings of the bull market and cow dung.

Bullshit x malt
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Atelier 2M2

Atelier 2M2 is essentially a “skeptic.” In their context, the “self” has also become the “other,” an “object” that needs to be calmly “observed.” At the same time, in order to verify the uncertain cognition of the “realistic utopia,” they created a series of objects of justification with different personalities and positions (in commissioned projects or independent creations). The objective (non-subjective) justification of these objects further intensifies their skeptical stance.

People

Lingyuan Wang, co-founder of Atelier 2M2, founder of malt online aesthetic platform, member of N2 Multimedia Art Group, graphic designer, artist. Lingyuan Wang is an artist who walks between reality and abstraction: in reality, he is rational and orderly, focusing on the essence of the subject and following the rules to discover the eternal essence of things. In the abstract carrier (thought), he calmly observes the world, imagines and criticizes.


Cai Jingfeng, Art Director and Graphic Designer at Atelier 2M2.Cai approaches design through a framework of Cartesian rationality, grounding his practice in the systematic analysis of visual information’s coding logic and symbolic generation across the three dimensions of semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. He regards design as a pathway to ontological inquiry—engaging with the composition of form, the construction of meaning, and the activation of cognition. Between order and intuition, language and perception, he weaves a precise structural system that renders design a contemplative gaze and a philosophical response to the reality of existence.


Manling Wei, conceptual and strategic director of Atelier 2M2, co-editor-in-chief of malt online aesthetic Platform, graphic designer, artist and independent writer.
Manling Wei views the act of creativity as a phenomenological rescue (Rettung der Phänomene) in the sense of Plato. She is committed to synthesizing and exploring the conceptual and intellectual qualities of art or design works, and exploring the metaphysics triggered by the practice of creativity.

If you are looking to work with us please send applications to info@2m2un.com

Collaborators

Aéras, Lake Ripple, PingAn Group, Kaltendin, Root EGO, OJESH, ChiChaQu, Skyworth, vivo, OnePlus, IIIF150, OIIOIII, PurCotton, Taosence, CGN, Decameron Coffee, Tea Talk, KRYNICZANKA(Poland), BCCI, Wuarch, Taichin Arch, Das Space, Minsheng Art Museum, Oct Art & Design Gallery, Warsaw Electronic Festival, Noise Asia, WePlay, N2 Multimedia Art Lab, Malt, ChoP,Opalnest, Storyfarm, CinExpress, Teoisau, Parotia, Neosound, SZIMC.

Exhibitions

  • iF DESIGN Award Exhibition, Berlin, 2024
  • China TDC 2017( Typographic Design in China), Shenzhen, 2017
  • Asia Visual Art&Design Exhibition, TaiWan, 2013
  • GDC 13 Exhibition, Shenzhen, 2013
  • Tokyo TDC Annual Awards Exhibition, GGG Gallery,Tokyo, 2011
  • Undécima Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México 2010, Museo Franz Mayer, México, 2010
  • 21ST Chaumont: CIG Exhibition, Paris, 2009
  • GDC 09 Exhibition, Shenzhen, OCT-And Art & Design Gallery, 2010

Awards

  • iF DESIGN Award, 2024
  • Effie Performance Marketing Awards, 2023
  • IN2 SABRE Awards, 2023
  • Tokyo TDC Annual Awards, 2016
  • A’Design best design Award, 2016
  • Tokyo TDC Annual Awards, 2015
  • NINGBO IGDB 7, 2013
  • GDC 13, 2013
  • APD​​​​​​​8(Asi​a​-​P​a​c​​i​​fi​c Design), 2012
  • Tokyo TDC Annual Awards, 2011
  • APD​​​​​​​6(Asi​a​-​P​a​c​​i​​fi​c Design), 2010
  • HIIIBRAND, 2010
  • Undécima Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México, 2010
  • 21ST Chaumont: CIG, 2009
  • GDC09(Graphic Design in China), 2009
  • HKDA(HongKong Design Award), 2005

Publication

  • iF DESIGN Award Annual, 2024
  • China TDC 2017( Typographic Design in China), 2017
  • Tokyo TDC Annual Awards, 2016
  • A’Design best design Award Annual, 2016
  • Tokyo TDC Annual Awards, 2015
  • NINGBO IGDB 7, 2013
  • GDC 13 Annual, 2013
  • APD​​​​​​​8(Asi​a​-​P​a​c​​i​​fi​c Design), 2012
  • Tokyo TDC Annual Awards, 2011
  • APD​​​​​​​6(Asi​a​-​P​a​c​​i​​fi​c Design), 2010
  • 21ST Chaumont: CIG, 2009
  • GDC09(Graphic Design in China) Annual, 2009
  • CAPTURE THE BEST SHOPPING BAGS
  • HKDA(HongKong Design Award) Annual, 2005

Contact

202A,Building C3,OCT-Loft,
Nanshan,Shenzhen,China.
+86 (0) 755 835558 43
info@2m2un.com

Credit

Designed by Atelier 2M2