Design Articles

Design Articles

Design Articles featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Yongai E Home

The life in a city is usually fast-paced and self-enclosed. The designer hopes to create a temporary homelike lounge in the city through a lighting box with warmth. The project is a special box located in the city center, serving as a warm light in the city. It provides a home-like rest stop for city workers in busy areas, offering convenient services such as a place for short breaks, drinking water, charging stations, first-aid kits, and various other amenities.

Continue reading

 

Briiv Pro

Briiv Pro is a radical new approach to sustainable air purification. Featuring AI-assisted air quality monitoring and mesh network capabilities, Briiv Pro drives forward the possibilities of sustainable materials in the world of air purification, leading the charge as Briiv Pro does away with fossil-fuel derived plastics and ushers in a new era of bioplastic-based consumer electronics that deliver life changing benefits with natural materials. It is these ideals of sustainability to which Briiv Pro adheres, to illuminate a better pathway to a greener future for human beings and the planet.

Continue reading

 

Omni Chang’An Site Concept Show

Omni Chang’An is China's first large-scale site-specific conceptual theatre, a whole piece of stage performance based on the intangible cultural heritages of Shaanxi and driven by the most state of the art stage technology. The theatre is composed of 8 original parts carried in different dimensions and styles, Heming (Harmony), Nichang (The Rainbow Skirt), Yingren (The Imagined Man), Wanxiang, Chang’an, Chongyuan (The Reunion), Gongsheng (Interdependence) and Chuanqi (The Legend).

Continue reading

 

Traveling in Virtual Space

The cover design of these elementary school textbooks provides an opportunity for experience-based learning through an indirect journey into the space depicted on the cover. The design features an illustration that spans from the front to the back cover to convey the concept of space. By enabling students to experience a virtual space through the use of augmented reality (AR) technology, the design encourages three-dimensional thinking and imagination Students can explore and interact with the illustrated space, creating a more engaging and interactive learning experience.

Continue reading

 

Arc

Functionality defines the aesthetics, using new techniques to reinterpret eternal themes in an attempt to synthesize spatial quality through specific architectural gestures. Open to the elements, external space is protected by a canopy that creates a microclimate. Combining modern design with simplicity of shape, curves and crisp lines define a layout adjusting elegantly into any architectural context while permitting occupants to enjoy outdoor spaces regardless of weather conditions all year round.

Continue reading

 

A Garden for All

This project is an educational project. It was an assignment on Typography Design given to tertiary education students from the School of Art, Design and Media, NTU, Singapore. The assignment was for each student to design Drop Caps as a font family. The outcome was multiple font families created by students and inspired on the flora, fauna, and unique features of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. From this, the best Drop Caps were printed in the book A Garden For All, published by the editorial Epigram Books in Singapore.

Continue reading