As one of highly influential design magazines in Asia, Design 360° - Concept and Design Magazine is a bimonthly and bilingual magazine featuring international advanced design concepts and unique creativities. While sticking to the fundamental theme of design, the magazine has been pursuing innovation and changes since its establishment. From the “Design Companies Series” in 2008, “Design Tour Series” from 2009 to 2011, “Social Value of Design Series” in 2012, to “UNESCO City of Design Series” in 2013, readers have witnessed the reformation and innovation of Design 360° Magazine.
No.83 Art Book Fair
In recent years, large-scale art gatherings, which are called art book fairs, emerge at home and abroad. From London, Tokyo, Seoul and Singapore to Beijing and Shanghai, art book fairs always gather publishing agencies, independent bookstores, artists and art book lovers from around the world. Originally, art book fairs were just places at which subcultures such as non-mainstream art cultures and youth cultures were spread. However, the countless number of people that flooded into these art book fairs makes them no longer a mere“non-mainstream” force. Therefore, this issue of Design360° explores the hidden vigor behind art book fairs and the reflection on this era revealed by them.
No.70 Narration of Bamboo
Different craft techniques and forms can be obtained by bamboo in the collision and fusion of different culture. Creators express their understanding and present their imagination of bamboo from various angles by using different design or art language. Some of them would dare to explore, testing the unknown properties of bamboo, while others are devoted to studying craftsmanship, creating the breathtaking structure and forms with bamboo. The dialogues of bamboo creations will certainly bring rich enlightenment.
No. 66 Design Partner
Designers usually focus on a specific aspect to enrich their professional quality. However, professional knowledge can both be their strength and limit. In facing with different design projects, more and more designers are aware of the significance for them to come together as collaborator or partner, through which they can both effectively improve themselves and enhance their design quality.
No. 69 Earth · Human & Creative Thinking
In the “Five Elements” of Chinese tradition, “soil” indicates the intimate connection between earth, human, life and nature. In the past, the ceramic craftsmen integrate their understanding of time in the creation, while the designers and artist of ceramic nowadays blend the relevant history, geography and humanities of clay or sand into the creation concept. The unexpected changes of the forms of “soil” are driven by the collision of craft, technology and media. In modern times, the soil, the earth and the related explorations and experiments have become the objects of creative researches, and also been collected by museums. The multiformity of ceramic art is constantly being explored, and its value is moving towards a new level.
