Design Stories

Design Stories

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

 

Glowing Eustoma

Glowing Eustoma is a noble flower in nature, revealing the concept about Light of Love and Peace in the darkness. The biotechnology makes Eustoma to glow as the lamps without any light sources in the darkness by utilizing the leaf vein absorption of high-entropy oxides, which are in line with EU standards. The attribute of a glowing flower lies in not only its light but also its soul.

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Spark

The overall design aims solve issues of instrument portability for everyday use and to provide an effectively familiar and transformative experience to user, as well as test the current limitations of new-age alternatives to traditional materials and methods of guitar-making. A new travel-electric silhouette informed by tradition, tailored to individual expression. Realized through use of computer-aided design applications, fused filament fabrication, and recycled bio-composite filaments.

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Jelly Tea

Jelly Tea is a functional food. Regimen requires considering both the nutritional value of food and the cultivation of life habits. Jelly Tea uses Chinese medicine and food homologous materials as raw materials. The gamification experience added to the service system can help users develop long-term habits. This new forms of health preservation methods have been embraced by the young generation.

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Draw One

Draw One Calendar is a minimalist calendar that uses the form of a tissue box as a metaphor for the preciousness of time, and the form of paper drawing also means to cherish time like saving paper. At the same time, the user can also see the remaining tissue through the opening on the front of the calendar, linking it with the rest of the year. Draw One Calendar wants to convey a correct concept of time, that is, cherish time and live in the moment.

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The Island Is a Symbol of the Times

Located in the artificial island port of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, this work is a city showroom work whose overall design is based on the element of curved surface mimicry. After extracting and summarizing the still and changing interaction between yacht and waves, designers incorporated or put the element into the appearance, adornment, and process design of indoor and outdoor signage. The most difficult part of the project was to select and integrate the common aesthetic elements of the yacht and the ocean, and how to incorporate and convey the spirit of the project site in the design.

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Home Bar and Coffee Spinning Ambient

A bar and a coffee reading ambient gets all stylish. Like a scene from a movie, where hidden matters are revealed at a push of a button, in this design a hidden bar rotates out from behind a coffee reading space at the command from a smart phone. This is possible by the combination of a rotating platform, custom furniture and automatization technology that qualifies this project as a multifunctional furniture for small spaces.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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