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Uplan Design's From East Show Window presents a breathtaking diptych of retail display windows that command immediate attention through their monumental scale and chromatic boldness, with the left…

From East Show Window by Uplan Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


GoldInterior· 2020

From East Show Window

by Uplan Design

Client: Uplan Design

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About From East Show Window

From East is a set of show window displays created for a commercial building in Shanghai. The main display surface and the side surfaces of the passageway each follow a different idea, arranged as inclusiveness, origin, promotion and collection along the customer walking route. The themes present Chinese culture through ancient auspicious figures such as the dragon, the phoenix and the crane. EVA material is used for shaping, filling and coloring. The displays cover forty square meters and apply strong traditional colors.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

From East Show Window is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. From East Show Window is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. From East Show Window creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Award-Winning Commercial Window Display Design

We transform retail spaces with captivating window displays that blend cultural artistry with brand storytelling. From concept to installation, our team creates immersive visual experiences for luxury brands and commercial spaces across China and Europe.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The whole project is respectively placed in the main display surface and side display surface of the passageway, commercial building. Therefore, the different position of the window design, the designers give different ideas. "Inclusiveness", "origin", "promotion" and "collection", these themes not only have a logical relationship based on customers' moving lines, but also fully express the important theme of Chinese culture.
Dimensions & Packaging
The project covers a total of 40 square meters. The overall color is so obvious and not low. This is the characteristic of Chinese traditional art's application of color, and it is more in line with the charm of Chinese culture.
Tags
Window Design, Commercial, Flagship Store, Exhibition, Chinese Style, National Tide
Production Technology
In order to more fully present the advantages of these images, EVA materials is used as the main material in the creation process. No matter in the plasticity, filling and coloring of the shape, it is one of the best choices for the design of modern window design. Uplan Design also specially invite partners to improve the material technology.
Design Challenge
The complexity of the work lies in the complexity of the details. Dragon scales, Phoenix wings, crane feathers, almost every shape, has countless details. Each scale is almost different. Their size, bending angle and radian, positions and distances between them, and the logic of overlapping all need to be completed step by step according to the details.
Research
The East is an ancient civilization that has gathered for thousands of years. The mythological fables, classics of ancient books, inventions and creations, as well as technological innovations from time to time, all present the influence of this land on the world. Nowadays, more and more young people are beginning to be keen on the national tide. This is not only a breakthrough in the field of fashion innovation, but also a sense of pride and belonging in the return of culture.
Inspiration
In the image of concrete performance, designers have chosen the unique characteristics of Chinese culture, and are the most easily noticed dragons, phoenixes, cymbals, cranes. They are all ancient gods or auspicious symbol, and designers refine the exquisiteness of these cultures through creative methods, and make a perfect graft with the window design and fashion culture.
Project Duration
The project started in June 2019 in Shanghai and finished in July 2019 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow
The designer is required to first refine the drawings of the graphic design, refine the process, decompose the research composition and the split structure, and even carefully detail the angle of each feather before starting to implement grouping, collage, coloring and many more.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Uplan Design, 2019.
Team Members
Yang Shi
Xingliang Liao
Haiyan Zhu
Yang Zhong
Hao Ji
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Tian Ye and Mr. Ainiu, From East, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Tian Ye and Mr. Ainiu, From East, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Tian Ye and Mr. Ainiu, From East, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Tian Ye and Mr. Ainiu, From East, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Tian Ye and Mr. Ainiu, From East, 2019.

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