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

 

Leaves

Leaves is a club house for a residential community, located halfway up a mountain in Changsha, China. The interior covers 2000 square meters on two floors. The first floor holds a reception lobby, a swimming pool and a gymnasium, and the second floor is a leisure area with a book bar. A lighting installation of custom made LED leaves is held by white painted aluminum steel cables that also act as conductors. Light control technology shifts the glow of each leaf to imitate autumn wind. The rolling ceiling of the former building is retained to recall a wavy mountain.

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Lays Signature

Lays Signature is a pop-up brand experience created around potato chips. The experience is staged at temporary locations inside exclusive retailers, where a mixology chip bar acts as a small stage. Visitors watch a live performance in which unique flavors are hand-crafted in front of them. The theatrical and multi-sensory format reimagines how chips are served, tasted and shared. The intent is to reach younger customers who value real experiences and social sharing. The first installment was presented at the department store Lane Crawford.

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Enjoy Happy Food

This design project shows how to transform a traditional fish vendor into a modern social e-commerce brand as a response to the epidemic, and to bridge the gap between traditional fish market shopping and online shopping lifestyle. The brand is rooted in the vendor's 40 year fisheries professionalism, traditional market's way of customer social interactions, and takes customization orders from customers via Line (a most used social app in Taiwan) to deliver freshest, daily caught sea fish and recommended cooking recipes.

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Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart is a temporary exhibition designed for a contemporary furniture collection in Taipei, Taiwan. The exhibition was held in the Nangang Bottle Cap Factory, a heritage building, and was open for eight days. Large glass windows, herringbone parquet flooring and wall craft elements were added without altering the original structure. Arched door frames, aisles and ceiling elements divide the hall into rooms with a home atmosphere. Natural sunlight replaces focused spotlights. Furniture, decorations, artworks, lighting and plants are arranged like a home corner.

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Sky Lounge

Sky Lounge is a rooftop restaurant and bar in Kolhapur, India. The venue has 1800 square meters of indoor space and a 150 square meter open terrace. The ceiling is formed by 20521 recycled paper tubes hung as repeated modules, which create a parametric pattern. The tubes refer to the local textile industry, where similar tubes are used to roll fabric. The pattern moves with the natural breeze. Basalt stone walls and a grey ceramic floor complement the raw paper tubes. Separate zones include a pizza counter, an enclosed bar and a sun deck.

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YiQi Hanzi Flashcards

Learning Chinese can be very visual. Chinese characters look like complicated drawings to people who don't know Chinese. YiQi Hanzi flashcards use design thinking and drawing to make the characters understandable to everyone to spread Chinese culture and the beauty of Chinese characters. The flashcards design also incorporates technology. The QR code on each card takes users to the YiQi Hanzi online learning center to expand the learning resources for each character. The whole experience design makes it easy for people to learn and memorize characters.

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