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

 

Playful Hut

This eco-friendly packaging combines practicality and creativity, ensuring product safety during transport while giving packaging new life through innovative design. Made from 100% biodegradable materials, it addresses the pain points of traditional packaging in handling and usage, offering a more efficient production process and a more convenient user experience. The design also supports reuse, reducing waste and providing DIY fun for families, making sustainability a part of everyday life.

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Bishan

The renewal of Bishan Librairy is to allow people to re-recognize and re-experience this ancestral hall of historical and cultural, so as to shape a sense of belonging, and to keep the cultural heritage under the realization of functional and economic values. The renewal of Bishan Bookstore is to let people re-recognize and experience this ancestral hall of historical.

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Takanabe Ninomaru

Takanabe Historical Museum, established in 1986, was reimagined to address declining visitor engagement due to outdated exhibits. The redesign embraced JIN, the philosophy of benevolence, transforming it into a cultural and educational hub fostering civic pride. Through visual storytelling and spatial design, the renewal introduced thematic curation, immersive exhibitions, and layered acrylic panels symbolizing historical continuity. Renamed Ninomaru History Museum, it now serves as an interactive space where heritage, education, and community connect.

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AI Sealer

The AI Sealer project merges traditional Chinese seal carving with intelligent manufacturing. This design enables users to customize seals via a three step process: text input, font selection, and layout adjustment. Seal designs are certifiable as NFTs. Beyond digital use, AI Sealer extends to physical creation. A carving machine produces tangible seals, and digital designs apply to items like tote bags and electronics.

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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).

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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.

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