DZNG

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

 
Daxi Daxi Local Culture Festival

Daxi Daxi

Since 2018, BIAS has developed and implemented an urban festival to help Daxi township preparing for the key religious ceremony of the place. Usually, Taiwanese ceremonies are conservative and based on rural traditions that dictate a strict set of rules. To share the charm of folk beliefs with the urban public, BIAS mediated the traditions by a strategic set of design interventions and activities that provide a pop-culture vibe to the event. In particular, BIAS acted as curator and invited various young artists and designers to cooperate with those that preserve old traditions.

Continue reading about Daxi Daxi Local Culture Festival

 
The Bamboo Forest Simple Lodging

The Bamboo Forest

The Bamboo Forest is a glamping accommodation facility located next to a zoo in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture. The site covers a gross floor area of 2000 square meters and holds six accommodation buildings made of steel tents, cotton tents and wooden structures. Each building has an interior named after and inspired by an animal from the neighboring zoos. Guests can eat breakfast beside giraffes and feed capybaras and lemurs. The quiet bamboo grove setting is intended to offer rest and learning for visitors from nearby cities.

Continue reading about The Bamboo Forest Simple Lodging

 
Check-in Hsinchu City and Design Expo

Check-in Hsinchu

The Design Expo is an annual design event promoted by the Central government of Taiwan. It aims to bring new energy to the local design sector. In 2020, Hsinchu hosted it, i.e., a city that holds a vibrant Science Park and more than 300 years of history. In this context, BIAS transformed the Expo into an urban event. Instead of triggering a single exhibition, this choice brought to temporarily re-imagine a line of places across the city. The aim was to let people experience the diversity of the city and showcase a new urban narrative, two things that finally highlighted design's social power.

Continue reading about Check-in Hsinchu City and Design Expo

 
Case Luggage Travelling Separately

Case

Case envisions the future of luggage and how luggage might evolve to become something that travels separately from its owner. Streamlining the travel experience, reducing stress, whilst also minimizing costly infrastructure. The Case is provided to you as part of an on-demand service whereby it will be delivered from your home to your destination ahead of the traveler, replacing the need to own and travel with luggage.

Continue reading about Case Luggage Travelling Separately

 
Maison Francois Restaurant

Maison Francois

Maison Francois is a restaurant of 500 square metres, created inside a bare concrete shell. The coffered ceiling is made of phonic material painted in faux cement to match the polished concrete floor. Curved walnut banquettes with privacy glass uppers are upholstered in cream linen, and floor-to-ceiling cream linen curtains offset the terracotta stucco and mirror arches. Joinery is in walnut and mahogany, with patinated brass and nickel metalwork. The central island pass forms the focal point of the room and links the kitchen to the dining space.

Continue reading about Maison Francois Restaurant

 
Zhangyan Country Living Festival Exhibition Space

Zhangyan Country Living Festival

Zhangyan Country Living Festival is an exhibition space created for a rural event in Shanghai. The layout is formed from old shipping containers that are staggered, stacked, interlaced and rotated to shape varied thematic areas. One group of containers encloses an area for forums, while another group defines an area for a marketplace. Local discarded resources such as wood, straw and reeds are also used. The visual identity follows the Memphis style and abstracts local motifs of mountain, water, fish and bridge. The activity space covers 5000 square meters.

Continue reading about Zhangyan Country Living Festival Exhibition Space