Unfolding A Nakagin Story اخباری پوسٹر by Yang Tian

Unfolding A Nakagin Story اخباری پوسٹر by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award آسنین انعام in گرافکس، السٹریشن ءِ وژوئل کمیونیکیشن ڈیزائن Competition Category.

آسنگرافک· 2025

Unfolding A Nakagin Story اخباری پوسٹر

by Yang Tian

A' Design Award آسنین انعام Winner in گرافک Category

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The Design

About Unfolding A Nakagin Story اخباری پوسٹر

جنگ اِ پَسا جاپان اِ جدیدیت اِ دوبارہ شناسگ کنگ واستا، کیشو کوروکاوا، میٹابولیزم گروپ اِ کُمترین عمر واڑا ممبر، جدید مسکنات اَکا انفرادی خلیات چوں تصور کنت۔ آیاں حرکت کنت، ہضم بنت، رُشد کنت و زوال پزیرت، اَکا نوکیں جمعیت اِ بارا ئا معلومات دنت کہ چیزا مردم دیگہ اَکا مُستقل فضا ئا زندگ نہ کنت۔ نکاگین اِ داستان اِ پچ ونگ، اخبار اَکا ذریعہ چوں استعمال کنت تاکہ ایں میٹابولیزم تصور نوشتگ و واسگ بکنت، پچ ونگ اِ گوں اَکا شہری داستان ساہتگ انت۔

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award آسنین انعام

Unfolding A Nakagin Story اخباری پوسٹر A' Design Award آسنین انعام ءِ ورگ آ انت، معزز اعتراف کہ آ جوانیں ڈیزائناں دیگ بیت کہ جوانیں ڈولا ڈیزائن کنگ بوتگیں تخلیقاں چہ متوقع پیشہ ورانہ ءُ صنعتی ضرورتاں پورا کننت۔ آسن ءِ ورگ آ وتی خالقاں ءِ مزن مہارت، اعلیٰ ماہری، ماہرانہ سمجھ ءُ تخلیقی صلاحیت پیش کننت۔ Unfolding A Nakagin Story اخباری پوسٹر چہ امید کنگ بیت کہ آ یک باز قدر کنگ بوتگیں، ساراہگ بوتگیں ءُ پیارکنگ بوتگیں تخلیق بیت کہ عملی ءُ جدت ءِ انت۔ ای ڈیزائن کہ A' Design Award آسنین انعام ءَ برتگ، صنعت ءِ بہترین طریقہ یکجا کنت ءُ علم ءُ صلاحیت گوں جوڑ بوتگیں قابل تکنیکی خصوصیتاں دار انت۔ Unfolding A Nakagin Story اخباری پوسٹر ءِ سنجیدگی ءِ سببا عزت کنگ بیت ءُ آ زندگی ءِ معیار ءَ بہتری آرگ ءِ پہ جوڑ کنگ بوتگ کہ جہان ءَ جوانتر جاگہ جوڑ کنگ ءَ مدد کنت۔

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: To re-identify Japan’s Modernity after the war, Kisho Kurokawa, the youngest Metabolism group member, imagines modern housing as individual cells. They move, digest, grow, and decay, informing a new society where people no longer live in a fixed space. Unfolding a Nakagin Story uses the newspaper as a medium to document and expand this Metabolism imagination, through “unfolding” to fabricate an urban story.
Dimensions & Packaging: Cover: 8" X 12"

Newspaper: 16" x 24"
Tags: Nakagin, Metabolism, Heritage, Housing, Urbanism
Production Technology: Graphics are done in Photoshop and Illustrator, the architecture is modeled in Rhino with a grasshopper plugin to change patterns and orientation.
Design Challenge: How can we capture the concept of Metabolism, where buildings can grow and shrink over time? How should I identify individual differences while the building comprises the same rectangular blocks? These are the two biggest challenges I need to solve. By using newspaper as the medium, one can feel the growth through unfolding the paper. One can also read individual stories despite repeating units by showing the interior information of selected blocks.
Research: Focusing on post-war Japanese architecture, Metabolism was the most influential architectural movement from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Kisha Kurokawa changed the Western design ideology of FORM (ETERNAL) based living style to TIME (CHANGING) based living space. The Nakagin Capsule Tower is an iconic architecture that not only embraces ephemeral but also changes a collective to an individual-oriented living style.
Inspiration: To embrace the idea of flexibility and updating, the newspaper is a great medium as a representation tool. Newspaper changes every day with new information and unfolding it to gain new information reinforces the idea of metabolism. By unfolding the project, each time, the capsule patterns, window colors, shapes, and orientation change within an oblique neutral grid.
Project Duration: Duration: 3 months

Location: Boston, MA, USA
Operation Flow: You could unfold it three times, each time, the capsule patterns, window colors, shapes, and orientation change within an oblique neutral grid, and 7 capsules have been highlighted to expose the interior activities of an individual with personal information next to it. Individual yet connected, neutral yet different for each capsule. You will experience the beauty of the Nakagin capsule tower after you unfold its stories!