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New Design Post

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

 

Matsu Biennial 2023

Matsu Biennial is a 10 year, 5 part aspirational plan to provide lasting foundations for social design. Its 70 works of mixed-media art and cross-disciplinary creation across 9 curatorial projects take on the challenges of sustainable regional development. Matsu's Cold-War era tunnels, war zone archives, Eastern Min tradition, architecture, and language sees 200 households practicing winemaking tradition, inspiring the theme Ruby Red After Summer. The Biennial transforms art into the yeast to give rise to suppressed voices and turn Matsu into a base for art and design.

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World Cyber Games 2019 Xi'an

World Cyber Games 2019 Xi'an is an esports festival held over four days at an exhibition center in Xi'an, China. The event covered 30,000 square meters and gathered 504 athletes from 33 countries. The design is based on the cube form of the event logo. The points, edges and faces of the cube were applied to the stage, the signage and the merchandise. A cube balanced on one edge was built as an LED monument in the central plaza. Pathways, stages and facilities were planned to guide visitor flow. The program included a tournament, an opening ceremony, a music festival and a cosplay event.

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Game Fuel PRO-AM Consumer Experience

Game Fuel PRO-AM was a live gaming event created for a beverage brand and broadcast to viewers at home. The event paired professional gamers with celebrities to present a new two-versus-two game mode and to introduce a new drink can. The studio set was lit in red and blue, the core product colours, to create a dramatic effect and to separate the two teams. Bold typography and strong colour gave the space a modern interpretation of gaming. The set was designed to read clearly on screen during the broadcast.

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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.

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The Multiverse

The Multiverse is an introductory passageway designed for a watch and clock fair hall in Hong Kong. The passageway covers 745 square metres and guides visitors towards the branded watch booths. A mirrored rotunda entry marks the concourse. Inside, a 5 metre high transparent LED waterfall with a mirrored overhang stands at the centre. Themed portals lead to four zones and a lounge. The walls are built with reusable aluminium frames clad in vinyl graphics and mirrored panels. The abstract concept reflects the creative focus of an imaginary artisan watchmaker.

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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.

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