HAZEL TAO
Hazel is a designer who enjoys experimenting with different creative methods and exploring new ways to make visuals. With a background in visual storytelling, she plays with patterns, motion, and form to create interesting and dynamic designs. Open to collaborations, she is always looking for new projects that push her creativity and help her grow as a designer.
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LILCATELilcate is jewelry made for the quiet space between things — between thought and breath, between movement and rest.
Originally initiated as a personal design exercise, the project explores how form can hold presence, and how material can hold absence. Each piece begins not with concept or symbolism, but with a shape — often curved, sometimes imperfect, always restrained. The aim is not to express identity, but to create space around the wearer’s body. The process leans toward reduction. Materials are selected for their density, tactility, and neutrality — crystal, metal, pearl. Surfaces are never polished to excess; edges are left softened. Each piece is meant to wear down slowly, registering time through contact and use.
Role
Brand Identity
Visual Design
Editorial Concept
Tool
Adobe Creative Suite
Cinema 4D
Challenge
The design challenge lies in resisting excess—of form, of meaning, of finish. Each piece must hold weight through proportion and surface alone. It must feel complete even in absence of metaphor, value, or sentiment.