Toward Design Magazine

Toward Design Magazine

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

 

Shou

It is a spontaneous project researched with the subject of 1983ASIA. The auspicious animal embroidered on the rank badges are the inspiration source for 1983ASIA design this time. As an Asian designer, 1983ASIA condenses the endless stories about rank badge and exquisite vision into series products with modern design methods.Research the characteristics of Chinese traditional culture, bring the culture products to daily life with modern design methods and let more and more people enjoy this fashionable culture products and then learn about their stories.

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Formosa Sapphire

Swinhoe's Pheasant is a kind of endemic species in Taiwan. Since Swinhoe's Pheasant is difficult to find, the designer observed the appearance of the animal through photographs and from the book Wild Bird of Taiwan, then drew the beautiful appearance of the animal delicately. Therefore, the designer hopes this product can be a Taiwan souvenir to foreign friends.

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Jungle

Jungle is a mix of various elements that make sense as a whole. SOLO Jungle is a fusion of watercolor paintings on canvas and digital sketches depicted on reused fabrics. We love the idea of reused fabrics as a way to protect nature. The blend of basic watercolor and digital shapes renders a pattern that truly represents the lush, dense aspect of the jungle. Such an intense green effect was obtained through printing, that pantone used SOLO Jungle to sustain their Greenery concept.

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The Weight Of Textile Story

Sheng Qiu's work was inspired by Milan Kundera's novel "The unbearable lightness of being". Designer is against throwawayism. Sheng Qiu aims to offer aesthetically and luxury durable products. In addition, designer asks people to question the social value of textiles, which in turn may inspire us to think more deeply about ourselves. Its contemporary design, using both digital and hand-drawn techniques, the vivid colours and the its multiple uses make it unique.

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China Town

The Forbidden City is the imperial palace, the symbol architecture of Beijing, and the representative model of the Chinese traditional royal architecture. The grandness of the buildings in the Forbidden City and the symbolic royal colors, especially the red and golden are the integration between the historical culture and the fashionable daily goods design. It expresses the mighty authority of the royal architecture by the gorgeous feelings of the real silk and enhances the interesting visual feelings by the ways of modern design.

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Swim

The artist got inspiration from a dream: one day she became a fish, swimming in layers of paper-cut ocean with friends. Then she started to make this dream into reality. Starting by drawing hundreds of two-dimensional abstract Chinese paper cut patterns which contain different blessings and sketching out plentiful postures of fishes. Then the artist drew and re-mixed those elements with creative software by expressing them into a three-dimensional, realistic effect just like oil painting rich in lights and shadows. It’s an attempt of crashing eastern art expression with western.

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World's greatest design teams.

Sometimes you need a very big team of talented designers to come up with truly great designs. Everyday, we feature a distinct award-winning innovative and creative design team. Explore and discover original and creative architecture, good design, fashion, graphics design and design strategy projects from design teams worldwide. Get inspired by the original works by grand master designers.

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