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Four Treasures of the Study - with simple and pure deliveries of writing, the messages and heritage at all times can always be extended and passed down: brush, ink, paper, and ink stone are the four indispensible mediums of tool for the refined scholars. They use these mediums for expressing diversified manners of interpretation and performance: writing in flying strokes, reciting poems, and singing willows.
Continue readingTransforming regular stationery into one that bears historic meaning, while maintaining its user functionality in current times, is the biggest challenge. The Top Scholar Pen Set design took references from ancient Chinese imperial examination practices, scholar culture and moral values. Pen cap resembles the top hat wore by scholars in the past. Pen barrel was designed like the Cim bucket or fortune telling sticks holder. The pens, similar to fortune sticks and written with blessings in calligraphy strokes, represents luck for users to excel in performance during tests.
Continue readingLittle red dot is the general marking of unread messages in the Internet age, and bookmarks are designed to mark and distinguish between read and unread parts. This bookmark links unread messages and bookmark together, as if the part behind the little red dot is what people have not read, waiting for them to read.
Continue readingUnlike a regular pencil, where the design focuses on a ‘three-spot’ finger handling, and results in a big amount of opposing forces on a specific spot on the pencil, Artemis offers a handling which creates a ‘three-space’ concept for the fingers involved in keeping it. Instead of the holder keeping the pencil, the pencil itself is accommodating your fingers on it, without applying any pressure that eventually could influence the arm’s muscular tension.
Continue readingCaring for women is becoming a hot topic in the world. A daily necessities can also reflect the concern for women and help them solve problems. So their team conducted field research and found that many families had tailoring tools, but they were too many and fragmented to accept. To solve this problem, The team provided them with a solution.Can more effectively help people manage and receive small items such as needles and threads, improve the utilization of space and timeliness of work.
Continue readingIn everyone’s childhood, one of the first objects they encounter is a pencil and sharpener. Standing over the trash bin and sharpening your tool, and make your marks on paper. This interaction can be related to everyone across different cultures and background. The pencil sharpener is a work of beauty — it’s a piece that expresses simplicity and the magic of analog. A pencil sharpener is honest, and as you sharpen your pencil, you see the graphite and wood shavings fly out each turn.By utilizing zirconia’s material property, the blade doesn’t need to be changed and sharpens smoothly.
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Design Gift features original gift ideas, executive toys, stationary supplies and writing instruments.
Seat Ware by Gao Fenglin
Sunday, 6 OctoberMultifunctional Sofa by Ninho Design Studio
Saturday, 5 OctoberPlayful Interface by Responsive Spaces
Friday, 4 October
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