| PolyU Design students earn 5 awards at Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards and Perspective Awards | Editor |
With the impressive design concepts of their final year projects, PolyU Design students from Interior and Environment, and Industrial and Product Design swept five awards from two competitions as 2012 came to the end. The list of award winners is as follow:
The 20th Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards
http://www.apida.hk/2012/
Mr Tommy Yeung Kwun Ting
BA(Hons) in Design (Environment & Interior), Class of 2012
Project: Seaweedscape
Supervising tutor: Valerie Portefaix
Award: Student Category Bronze Award
2012 Perspective Awards
http://www.perspectiveglobal.com/perspective-awards
Mr Gideon Lai Ming Ho
BA(Hons) in Design (Industrial & Product), Class of 2012
Project: High Walker
Supervising tutor: Scot Laughton
Award: TROPHY (First Prize 冠軍) of Product Design, Student Category
Ms Chloe Yau Chiu Ting
BA(Hons) in Design (Environment & Interior), Class of 2012
Project: Stilt Walker-A New Cultural Hostel Experience in Tai O
Supervising tutor: Horace Pan
Award: Certificate of Excellence of Space, Student Category
Mr Tai Ka Cheong
BA(Hons) in Design (Industrial & Product), Class of 2012
Project: Sounds Amass
Supervising tutor: Benny Leong
Award: Certificate of Excellence of Product Design, Student Category
Mr SO Ho Lung, Bosco & Mr CHO Hing, Nathan
BA(Hons) in Design (Environment & Interior), Class of 2012
Project: Greenshaft (note: This is not a final-year project but an assignment on Redemptive Landscape Architecture.)
Award: Certificate of Excellence of Architecture, Student Category
Click here to read project details>>
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| PolyU students win Best Design Team at Tsinghua University Art & Design Month | Editor |
With their innovative concept for designing a smart kitchen, four students of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Design (PolyU Design) have recently won the Best Design Team Award at the Collaborative Innovation Design Workshop held during the fourth International Art & Design Academic Month organized by Tsinghua University.
The PolyU Design team competed against six other teams, which came from Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, School of Design of National Yunlin University of Science and Technology of Taiwan, Department of Industrial Product Design of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and other three universities in China.
The workshop brief was to design an integrated concept for family kitchen which caters for Chinese lifestyle. The PolyU Design team designed “A Smart Kitchen On-demand”, which is set up to cater for the needs of modern Chinese cooking and dining behaviors. It is designed to enhance the value of the kitchen in a family, providing a platform to communicate, share and show caring. The design provides a solution making kitchen no longer a fixed space at home but part of the living room.
The PolyU Design team, consisted of four year three students of Industrial & Product Design, won the award for their outstanding performance of teamwork and design concept. “We are very excited and surprised to win the award from this large-scale design workshop, where other teams were highly professional and some of them were formed by master’s students,” Jack Chun Yueng -chiu, one of the members of the PolyU Design team said. The team was led by Mr Fred Han, Assistant Professor of PolyU Design, other team members included Yan Hei Ho, Tung Ting Kan and Bao Bo.
“We noticed that most people do not enjoy cooking at all,” Jack Chun explained. “We hope to design an environmentally friendly kitchen system, which could turn cooking into a joyful experience and at the same time, act as health consultant and cooking process assistant.”
The workshop and the fourth International Art & Design Academic Month was held from 10 to 14 December 2012 in Guangzhou, China.
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| PolyU Design student wins WADI World Design Challenge | Editor |
Sharon Lee Chun-man, the graduating student of BA(Hons) in Design (Industrial & Product), won the first-place prize at the WADI World Design Challenge on her graphic design which best presents the characteristics of the product and expresses its socio-cultural acceptability. The product is a sustainable, autonomous, cost efficient and energy-self-sufficient tool, which helps to trace the progress of solar water disinfection in a PET bottle, detecting and calculating the relevant UV-rays of the sun, indicated by a status bar and smiley face.
“I was grateful and honored to be selected as the champion. I feel like I am moving forward to the dream of making the world a better place to live in,” Sharon shared her joy with us.
The competition received over a hundred entries from all continents of the world. The winning designs will be used for the foil imprints of the WADIs in different regions. www.helioz.org
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| Cordially inviting you to PolyU Design Annual Show 2012 | Editor |
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| Graduates’ ballpoint pen design won international awards | Editor |
Two graduates from the class of 2009, BA (Hons) in Design (Product), and their creation Origin, was honored by two significant international awards, Red Dot Product Design Award 2011 and Japan Good Design Award 2010.
The mixed-material ballpoint pen was a design inspired by the table leg. The leg’s simple converging shape revived the designer to explore the original meaning of a pen. On Origin, there is no pen clip that many other pens have, while it answers the need of anti-rolling and emphasizes the comfort of writing.
Pinky Wan and Paul Poon are the designers behind the award-winning product. The brand was developed under a local brand ten Design Stationery.
“We started our career here as Pinky’s final year project was found and appreciated by the brand’s founder,” Poon said. “PolyU Design provided us with a platform connecting with the design industry and we feel grateful.”
More information about the awards:
Red Dot Product Design Award 2011
Japan Good Design Award 2010
Congratulations to Pinky and Paul.
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| 18 fresh brands presented by Design Direct | Editor |
“ We are moving into a hyper integrated world in which all aspects of production — raw materials, design, manufacturing, distribution, fulfillment, financing and branding — have become commodities that can be accessed from anywhere by anyone.” – Friedman NYT. Nov 24 Column “Advice from Grandma”.
A small band of young & emerging designers in Hong Kong are changing the rules of the traditional industrial design industry.
Using the internet, self-branding & low-cost Asian manufacturing to go direct to the consumer, this young generation of designers poses the question, “are companies & clients becoming obsolete?”
Design Direct, an exhibition held previously at the SD Gallery on 25th May to 10th June 2011, presented 18 emerging design brands by the year-2 students from BA (Hons) Industrial & Product Design – each with their unique personality & an empowering portfolio of products. Each brand shows a simple & successful bridge between designer & consumer. We hope you enjoy browsing through the brands. We expect to see much more coming from these young design entrepreneurs.
The brands were created for the subject tutored by Dr Ernesto Spicciolato, Dr Roger Ball & Mr Michael Leung from the Industrial & Product teaching team.
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| PolyU Design Annual Show 2011, 1-14 June. See you soon! | Editor |
The journey to good design involves the constant search of the delicate balance between simplicity and complexity, emotion and rationality, theory and practicality. At PolyU Design, students explore these major attributes before making a design decision.
Join us at the PolyU Design Annual Show 2011 to see future designers from Advertising, Digital Media, Environment & Interior, Industrial & Product, and Visual Communication disciplines turn fresh ideas into works of beauty and function.
Date: 1 – 14 June (opens daily)
Exhibition Opening Hours: 11:30 – 20:30
Opening Ceremony: 1 June 14:30 (by invitation)
Venue: InnoCentre, 72 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong
Presented by over 200 graduating students of this cohort from
BA (Hons) in Design (Advertising Design /Environment & Interior Design /Industrial & Product Design /Visual Communication Design)
BA (Hons) in Digital Media
Higher Diploma in Multimedia Design and Technology
Higher Diploma in Product Innovation Technologies
www.AS2011.info
Free Admission
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| Members of the class of 2010 shine in international competitions | Editor |
Good news from the class of 2010!
SZE Ling Lee, Linny, BA(Hons) in Design (Environment & Interior)
Her final year project “Slow Frame- a 26km urban interface”, was awarded Bilbao International Design Prize in the category of “Public Spaces” and the Grand Award winner, in the B Awards Concept Design Festival held in Spain.
SUEN Ka Hei, Catherine, BA(Hons) in Design (Industrial & Product)
Her final year project “Pierrot” won the Kitchen Tools Competition organised by World Kitchen, LLC, USA, earlier in March.
CHAN Wan Ki, CHEN Siu Wa, SUEN Ka Hei, BA(Hons) in Design (Industrial & Product)
HO Tsz Lam, SHAM Ching Man, SZE Chun Lun, TANG Yi Ka and TSE Mei Si, BA (Hons) in Digital Media
Two of the 13 finalists of Design For Asia Student Award 2010 come from the class of 2010 too. One of them is the awards-winning “Living Pixels”, a project by Chan Wan Ki (Kay), Chen Siu Wa, Suen Ka Hei (Catherine), from BA(Hons) in Design (Industrial & Product). Another finalist is the animation “Alien Duncan” by students from BA (Hons) in Digital Media, HO Tsz Lam (Ah Lam), SHAM Ching Man (Mouse), SZE Chun Lun (Denis), TANG Yi Ka (Heidi) and TSE Mei Si (Mei Si).
Congratulations to all!
Slow Frame- a 26km urban interface, by SZE Ling Lee, Linny more>>
Pierrot, by SUEN Ka Hei, Catherine more>>
Living Pixels, by CHAN Wan Ki, CHEN Siu Wa, SUEN Ka Hei more>>
Alien Duncan by HO Tsz Lam, SHAM Ching Man, SZE Chun Lun, TANG Yi Ka and TSE Mei Si view>>
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| Simplize, bags for cyclists by Industrial & Product Design Student | Jason Ho |
Simplize is a brand of bags for cyclists. The design of the fashion accessory is developed based on people’s identity. The concept comes from three main parts of Hong Kong, i.e. the New Territories, Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. The bag shows which district the bicycle rider is from, thus reveals his identity. It helps enhancing the connection between cyclists from different places in Hong Kong which have different features of, say, environment and landscape.
The collection of Simplize includes a strapped bag, 3 small bags and a notebook case. For the strapped bag, the curved cutting is designed to fit the body and its strap is attached with a pocket for iPod. It also provides a pocket for sunglasses and a reflection tape for safe riding at night.
Jason Ho, year-2 student of the BA(Hons) in Design (Industrial & Product), is the creator of the brand. The brand was part of his assignments of the Fashion Accessories class which he attended in last autumn.
More about the designer: http://jason-designblog.blogspot.com/
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| Mr. 6, Fashion Accessories by Industrial & Product Design Student | Alexis Shun Lam Law | |
| Perfect closing of Annual Show 2009 (Video) | CHOW Cho Yeung | |
| Perfect closing of Annual Show 2009 (Photos) | CHOW Cho Yeung | |
| Hong Kong designs for leisure | Rennie Kan | |
| Shellody – Giving Children Back Their Music | Rennie Kan | |
