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

 

Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney

Solving the Royal North Shore Hospital's wayfinding was not just about designing ‘better’ signs. Legibility, colour and graphics may be the necessary physical tools for a sign but it was the comprehension of their meaning that was important and how this was organised into a cognitive pattern of sign types. Clarity and directness of the wayfinding system is enhanced and enlivened by the use of colour utilised at each lift core as a wayfinding tool to correspond with vertical circulation. Visitors felt comfortable in their spatial environment, and were easily oriented and logically informed.

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Coincidence

'Coincidence Supermarket' is turning the virtual world of online dating into the reality in order to affect real life interpersonal alienation, leading to people achieving face-to-face communication in their real lives. Coincidence Supermarket offers an interesting dating space where you can buy what you need, just like you can in a supermarket, and have the opportunity to make new friends if you are lucky.

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Harbour Space University

Harbour.Space University identity uses its own alphabet, specially created using the form of city blocks in Barcelona and the binary codes for Latin letters that computers use.

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National Essence

This series poster reflect Chinese haze pollution problem. The design show the state of Chinese national culture image under the haze. The Chinese traditional culture image, rare animal, world heritage, literary novel character are the protagonists of the poster. The essential purpose of design is calling on the Chinese government and individuals to pay more attention to environmental problems especial haze.

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Artificial Realities

Artificial Realities, an exhibition of established and emerging artists, marks the 25th year since the inauguration of the East Wing Biennial. The exhibition identity, commissioned by the Courtauld Institute of Art (London) aimed to capture the essence of the artists exhibiting as well as the surroundings in which it was set. The identity graphically utilises the architectural elements of Somerset House merging with intricate graphic grids to create intrigue and uncertainty; this combined with clever use of typography and simple, yet bold colour scheme help evoke a strong exhibition identity.

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Bengal Classical Music

Eastern classical music is a conversation of love spoken in syllables of purity and reflection. To encapsulate this, a generative system based on 'Raga' was developed. A symbol – the statue of a musician sitting at peace, her hands liberating the tunes from her Tanpura – was chosen as the core seed of the system to generate design elements unique to each performer's music. The lighting of the statue for each generations reflected the different times of the day-night when a 'Raga' is played.

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