Design Stories

Design Stories

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

 

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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Anima Code

With the widespread use of social media, generating life records in digital media has become a new habit for humans. However, once a person dies, those digital properties are often forgotten and inaccessible. Anima Code is a personal seal with an engraved QR code that contains an access key to a person's digital data. By scanning the code stamped beforehand, the bereaved ones can reach the person's digital presence after his or her death. Through the physical interaction of stamping a seal, the designer explores the secure yet intimate approach for inheritance in the digital era.

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Aurora

Aurora is a synthesizer. In this synthesizer, a laser is used to control the effects and filters. In fact, this creative method has replaced touchpads and sliders to control sound effects. In addition to increasing the ease of use and speeding up the composer's action, this laser is attractive and has a visual beauty for audience and composer during a performance. An enjoyable and different experience while performing or composing. The name of this product is derived from the bright rays of the aurora in the dark of the night.

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