Pentagram / BIGNaming for Hualien Residences
Engaged as a naming specialist by Pentagram, I generated a curated shortlist of original names for BIG’s pioneering residential development in Hualien, Taiwan. To begin, I determined five creative territories based on the region’s coastal beauty and the development’s unique green-roofed architecture. Names had to be translatable into Mandarin Chinese with consideration to both meaning and characters. To create evocative and trademarkable options, I focused on suggestive and descriptive names using real-word, composite, and coined constructs.
Naming specialist
2013
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Photos by Jinho Lee; renderings by BIG