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Hye Jun Youn
Soft Robotics
Tuesday, 30 July 2024

PneuBots

PneuBots is a modular soft robotics construction kit consisting of seven types of self-foldable segments with high tensile strength, three types of pneumatic connectors and splitters, and a custom-designed box. The kit enables various assemblies to be made with the modular pieces, allowing creators to explore the world of soft robotics in playful ways. When combined with a FlowIO device, PneuBots allows seamless programmability of the different assemblies, enabling artists, designers, engineers, and makers to create dynamic, shape-changing, and interactive works.

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Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Autistic Preschool Training App
Monday, 29 July 2024

School Simulator

School Simulator is an app aiming at providing preschool training for the children with autism spectrum disorder, available to all parents, teachers and therapists. It is a platform for the pre-school training and community communication. In this app, autistic children can get trained in four categories: self care, instruction understanding, interpersonal interaction, and one day in school, which are expected helpful for their future integration into inclusive classes. Their parents, teachers and therapists can also communicate and share experiences on it.

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TAKUYA HOTTA
Craft Tableware
Sunday, 28 July 2024

Craftal

Craftal is a subscription service that provides Japanese craft tableware to restaurants and households, fostering a new environment where people can meet a wide variety of traditional crafts from all over Japan. By connecting artisans and end users, the goal is to create more touchpoints for people to use Japanese traditional crafts in restaurants and in their daily lives. Through this platform, craftsmen develop products better suited for the market through user feedback, and restauranteurs and other users help sustain the traditional tableware industry in Japan for the future.

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Yuntong Sun
Typography
Saturday, 27 July 2024

Whoatemytofu

Invoking the metaphorical concept of eating tofu, this Project created an open type font design inspired by Tofu. Yuntong Sun believes graphic design as well as typography can be a tool for social change. As a woman, she also thinks this project is not only a visual design support for victims of sexual harassment and a new way for them to fight against sexual harassment. It's also a platform for them to speak out and feel united: You are not alone.

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Yullin Wang of MPI Design LLC.
Cultural Architecture
Friday, 26 July 2024

Hsichih Mazu Temple

A temple that is free from the traditional framework. The design is based on light as the core, gathering the local humanities, geography and culture, and using the oriental style of calligraphy combined with the western gothic architecture. Reinterpretation of traditional temple architecture symbols, and inclusion of traditional temple structure and elements, with a minimalist shape, replacing the tangible with the intangible. The temple is a new form of temple that embraces the environment, culture and life of the inhabitants, combining the art of architecture and religious sanctuary.

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Akkshit Khattar
Sustainable Food Packaging
Thursday, 25 July 2024

Doaba Dhaba

Doaba Dhaba is a cloud kitchen concept in India that gives the customer the bandwidth of selecting their own choice of food, in their own choice of cooking, and their own choice of gravy. The Brand Identity and packaging of Doaba Dhaba are designed keeping in mind their values of authenticity and sustainability. The identity reflects the rustic and organic feel of the brand. The main dishes are packed in Handis (clay pots), handcrafted by local artisans. The rotis and naans (flatbreads) are packed in banana leaves held together by jute threads. These go into a bag made of recycled paper.

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