SKYPEOPLE

Technology Re-Frames Nature
Client
SKYPEOPLE

Service
Art Direction
3D/CG
Generative Pattern
Interactive Design

Partner
Ding Fan / Fang Jianping

Team
CD: Fang Jianping
AD: Fang Jianping / Sun Shuo
D: Fang Jianping / Zhang Weiran
MD: Fan Lili
PM: Liu Yuanxi

Client Team
CD: Lu Xiaoyin
UDL previously developed SKYPEOPLE’s brand mark and visual identity system, helping the label establish a clear, restrained, premium presence within China’s high-end down outerwear market. As the brand entered a more mature stage of product development and communications, SKYPEOPLE raised a core question: how can its long-term technological expertise and product performance move beyond “functional advantages” and become a brand narrative that can be sensed, remembered, and continuously evolve?

UDL was invited to go deeper—further unifying and expanding SKYPEOPLE’s visual system—so the brand can hold a distinctive point of leverage amid market volatility and increasing category competition.

Anchored in SKYPEOPLE’s philosophy of “technology reshaping nature,” we revisited the fundamentals of the brand’s visual logic and recalibrated its communicative focus. Rather than serving as a wrapper for product specifications or performance claims, the design extends to the relationship between urban climate and people—positioning technology as a way to understand city life and climatic change, and as the connective tissue between the brand’s product rationale and contemporary urban experience.

From this perspective, we created a generative, ever-evolving motion pattern system. Drawing from everyday meteorological phenomena—wind, frost, rain, and snow—we distilled these into a set of graphic signifiers, then layered in the geographic and climatic data of different cities. Through programmatic generation, the system produces dynamic, non-repeating visual forms—opening up a flexible extension space for the brand, where each visual moment is singular.

The overarching visual metaphor comes from looking down at a city through an airplane window while traveling: animated weather “cloud maps” overlay simplified, static urban diagrams, creating the sensation of viewing a city through shifting layers of atmosphere from high above. Here, technology is not used to “explain” nature, but to reframe how nature is perceived—allowing the brand’s visual language to grow with changing cities and climates, rather than being confined to a single style.

If the pattern system articulates the brand’s relationship with the world—and with people—then the key visuals address a more concrete question. UDL brought the focus back to the product itself and its making, developing a series of hero images for SKYPEOPLE. The compositions isolate three subjects—the sewing machine, the quilting needle, and the down cluster—corresponding to the manufacturing system, the precision of craftsmanship, and the material structure at the core of the garment. Together, they unpack the construction logic of a down jacket layer by layer.

Visually, we worked with precise control over scale, structure, and material state, placing industrial rationality—usually hidden behind the production line—alongside tactile material detail. This makes the brand’s technical capability, craft standards, and performance foundations legible through visible order, texture, and close-up evidence. Restraint, here, becomes a form of intensity: credibility no longer relies on rhetoric, but on the viewer’s direct reading of detail.


Through the synergy of the generative pattern system and art direction, UDL helped SKYPEOPLE translate abstract technological advantages into a clear, sustainable set of brand visual assets. The system builds stable recognition within a highly homogenized high-end down outerwear landscape, while enabling SKYPEOPLE to sustain a long-term, distinctive momentum between rational technological character and human warmth.

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Client
SKYPEOPLE

Service
Art Direction
3D/CG
Generative Pattern
Interactive Design

Partner
Ding Fan / Fang Jianping

Team
CD: Fang Jianping
AD: Fang Jianping / Sun Shuo
D: Fang Jianping / Zhang Weiran
MD: Fan Lili
PM: Liu Yuanxi

Client Team
CD: Lu Xiaoyin
Process