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Craft Tableware

Thursday, 7 November 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.

Yullin Wang of MPI Design LLC.

Cultural Architecture

Wednesday, 6 November 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.

Kunihiko Sato

Device That Mutes Your Voice

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Voice Mask

Voice Mask is a concept wearable device that mutes whatever users say aloud while wearing it. It utilizes noise-cancelling technology to mask their voice by emitting the opposite sound wave. Voice Mask is used to participate in online meetings while in a public space. It can prevent confidential information from leaking and avoid bothering others. When in use, Voice Mask is worn around the neck and positioned to cover the user's mouth. It can be folded and carried around.

Mirae-N Design Team

Textbook

Monday, 4 November 2024

Fun Stories of Fun Friends

Miraen elementary school mathematics and social studies textbook covers express the images of daily situation of people's lives as in connection with the subject. Characters are illustrated to tell the stories of learning contents in a fun way so that students can have an easier approach to textbooks which may be a bit dry at times. The fun characters that match the eye level stimulate the students' curiosity and they make students empathize with the characters to increase intimacy with the textbooks.

Hye Jun Youn

Soft Robotics

Sunday, 3 November 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.

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

Autistic Preschool Training App

Saturday, 2 November 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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Thursday, 31 October 2024

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School Simulator

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