Silver Prize
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PASSING SCREEN(Category1)
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| Naruto Miyagawa [Japan] Age: 25/Designer Education: Nagoya College of Art & Design |
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| While countless bits of information are detected by the senses of sight, hearing, and smell in towns, parks and other places, they vanishes instantaneously from our consciousness. The work cuts off the ability to receive information through sense of sight. The idea behind this work is to change this process of 'elimination after recognition' to a process where recognition is achieved only by exercising curiosity. | |
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| NEW NEIGHBOR-THE TOUCH(Category1) |
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| Amit Friedman [Israel] Age: 29/Student Co-Designers:Pini Lybavich,Dana Gritzer |
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| This is called the "Touch System". It was created to enable blind people to experience the same sensations seeing people experience every day. It is a 3-dimensional answer to problems blind people face. It merges the "obvious" together with the "different". | |
| NEXT DOOR "DOMESTIC VIDEOPHONE"(Category1) |
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| Meng-Chin Tsai [Taiwan] Age:26/Student Education: Cranbrook Academy of Art Awards: Honorable Mention, Seki Competition, 1998 Honorable Mention, Taiwan Eye-Glasses Competition, 1990 Exhibitions: International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York, 1997 ID Senior Show, Rhode Island, 1996 Taiwan Student Design Exhibition, Taipei, 1992 |
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 This is a virtual telepresence, which is a communication device. With a large LCD display, it utilizes cyberspace to allow you to visit with someone faraway in the same manner you would with a neighbor. |
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| CHAIN OF WIND(Category2) |
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| Massimo Sabtini [Italy] Age:36/Free-lance Desiner Education: "LA SAPIENZA" UNIVERSITY Awards: Premio "Grandesign" 1995 Banana Design Competition 1996 |
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| This work pursues the ideal of creating a human installation which increases the quality of life and allows total relaxation. You feel as if you're living on the water, surrouvded by nature, far from the hustle and bustle of modern life. | |
| CHANGEOVER(Category3) |
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| Lam Wai Hung [China (Hong Kong)] Age:25/In-house Designer Education: First Institute of Art and Design Awards: First and Second Prize, Logo Competition of "Youth and Children Centre, Hong Kong" Merit Prize, Commercial Design of First Institute of Art & Design School's 20th Graduation "Project, Hong Kong" |
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| The year of "Cow", the 1997 was a special year for China and Hong Kong. This is a year card to celebrate the 1st of July, the historic moment when the government of Hong Kong was changed from British back to China. |