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West Shanghai Worker's Cul International Design Compe
'REMADE IN TAIWAN' To Join Venice Biennale in May
'How Long is a Piece of Thread Anton Alvarez Solo Exhibition
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West Shanghai Worker's Cultural Palace International Design Competition Result Announced Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects from Demark have won an international competition to design a new cultural home for the city of Shanghai, China. The project known as the West Shanghai Workers’ Cultural Palace, has been a popular destination for the city’s Labour Union workers and local community since the 1950s. schmidt hammer lassen architects’ new proposal will provide multiple cultural facilities including a theatre, cinema, art and exhibition spaces, as well as office, sports facilities, commercial space, and a major transport hub all within a new 8 hectare public park.
'How Long is a Piece of Thread?' Anton Alvarez Solo Exhibition Perhaps among the traditional Aboriginal arts from around the world, tribal women most often use threads of wire or plant material, expressing a similar, endlessly winding and repetitive circular structure. Anton Alvarez, using a structure of repetitive winding thread, relates a simple description, a simple faith of our existing world; that is, a copied inscription of life’s trajectory in the axis of time. Anton Alvarez himself chose the English “How Long Is a Piece of Thread?” as the title for this exhibition, which is a rich and meaningful question. Design has always been a double passageway for human life experiences in science, technology, tools and humanity, art, and history. The consciousness of the threads in Anton Alvarez’s works, after all, seem to have meaning from both the current standpoint of the audience, unfolding into an infinite future, or from a return to the starting point of history, a return to the deeply hidden abyss of humanity’s collective memory. More information pliease vist website: http://www.xuexue.tw/anton/about_en.html
'REMADE IN TAIWAN' To Join Venice Biennale in May Ahead of Taiwan’s ninth appearance at the global architectural fair Venice Biennale in May, the design concept of the 2016 Taiwan Pavilion was unveiled on Feb. 25. Designed by the Transdisciplinary Design Innovation Shop (TDIS) of the National Chiao Tung University, the Pavilion will re-brand the label of “Made in Taiwan” to introduce “ReMade in Taiwan” and explore how innovative companies in Taiwan have tackled the challenges of climate change and modernization by using local resources. To coincide with the biennale theme “Reporting from the Front,” the Taiwan Pavilion will showcase several architectural structures made with innovative materials, demonstrating how Taiwan has harnessed technology to achieve true sustainability. Two architectural prototypes, the nPulp Nest House and the E Ink Cave House respectively designed by the IDIS with YFY Inc. and E Ink , will show how they combined technology and waste materials to re-create pollution-free, eco-friendly, and comfortable houses. More information pliease vist website: http://www.labiennale.org/en/Home.html
Brand
Allrover is a longboard made to surf the city. Its 8-wheeled chassis is designed for urban terrain and glides down stairs, enabling significant impact reduction caused by rough surfaces and unpredictable terrain. It’s that same mechanism that gives the Stair-Rover its initial name. Reach the top of a flight of stairs and simply keep going – let gravity and the patent-pending V-frame design do the rest. The wheels bounce up and down independently and conform to the shape of each step. It’s a balancing act that gives the board its crab-like scuttle and gives you a butter-smooth ride to the bottom. This project was specially spotted w h e n i t l a u n c h e d a t Ta i w a n e s e - b a s e d a l l ro v e rc ro w d f u n d i n g w e b s i t e z e c z e c . The campaign has quickly surpassed its goal, securing $700K in funding from over 1500 supporters. According to zeczec, the campaign is one of the biggest crowdfunding projects in Asia, skating by competitor Boosted Boards. To find out more please visit www.allrover.com.
Award | Competition
The DFA Design for Asia Awards is the flagship programme of the HKDC, celebrating design excellence and acknowledging outstanding designs with Asian perspectives. Since its launch in 2003, the DFA Design for Asia Awards has been a stage upon which design talents and corporations can showcase their design projects internationally. The programme is comprised of five major awards: Grand Award, Culture Award, Sustainability Award, Technology Award and Category Award. Entries to the Category Award are recruited by open submission, while entries to the other four are by nomination. For the Category Award, entrants submit design projects in one of 18 categories under four key design disciplines, namely Apparel & Accessory Design, Communication Design, Environmental Design and Product & Industrial Design. Gold, Silver, Bronze and Merit are presented to winners in each category. Submissions are judged on four criteria – overall excellence, use of technology, impact in Asia as well as commercial and societal success. DFA Design for Asia Awards 2016 Timeline: April – June: Call for Entry July – August: Judging September – October: Internal Result Notification Late November: Public Announcement of Winner List December: Awards Presentation Ceremony More information pliease vist website: http://www.dfaa.dfaawards.com/
Chinese-speaking consumers demand products and designs tailored to their needs and desires. Given the variety of economic classes, lifestyle choices, and business opportunities in Chinese-speaking countries, astute design is crucial if brands want to remain competitive. International and domestic companies selling products and undertaking design projects in this complex arena must couple an understanding of centuries of civilization with a keen sense of local trends. The annual Golden Pin Design Award is the longest-running design award that celebrates products expressly created for the Chinese-speaking market. Participating individuals and companies are judged on their ability to innovate in this dynamic economy. As the gauge for leading design in Chinese-speaking communities, the Golden Pin Design Award offers entrants an unprecedented opportunity to prove their prowess in the world’s largest market.
GOLDEN PIN Cocept Awards 2016 Timeline: Call for Entry: close on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 23:59 (Taipei, GMT+8) Primary Selection assessment: Early July Secondary Selection assessment: mid-late-Aug Final Assessment: Early October Award Ceremony: End of November EntryFee: There is no entry fee. More information pliease vist website: http://www.goldenpin.org.tw/en/
About TBDC
Taipei Base Design Center Represented as the Executive Director of Taipei Base Design Center (TBDC). Professional in architecture space plan/design, interior space plan/design, media/ visual design/ restaurant management consultant and image planning/design consultant. Insistent upon ‘design is achieved by fulfilling the basic need and the style would come naturally’. TBDC is the first company which received the Red Dot Design Award (2007) around Chinese region and was invited to become the member of iF International Forum Design afterwards. Furthermore, it is one of quite less design companies in Asia that has won 4 highest global design award as well, which are Red Dot Design Award, IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards), G-Mark (Good Design Award) and iF award(International Forum Design award).
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