Liam Cicek – Art Director

MARTELL - CNY 2026

The brushstroke once belonged to mastery, the patient hand, the measured line, the form earned through discipline. For Chinese New Year 2026, Martell rewinds the gesture to its first breath. Here, calligraphy returns to instinct. In the Year of the Horse, movement precedes meaning. The project unfolds as a studio caught mid-gesture, where paint surges wet across the floor, where 2D and 3D bleed into each other, where form has not yet chosen what it will become. Built on the tension of the tamed and the untamed, it pulses through blue, red, and gold, the colors of a gallop sketched into the air.

For Chinese New Year 2026, Martell returns to the essence of calligraphy: instinct before mastery. In the Year of the Horse, a fluid world of 2D and 3D forms unfolds mid-motion, with blue, red, and gold tracing the energy of a gallop.

Client: Martell

Year: 2026

Role: Concept & Art Direction

Agency: Malherbe Paris

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