Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster sa Pahayagan by Yang Tian

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster sa Pahayagan by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award nga Puthaw in Disenyo sa Grapiks, Ilustrasyon ug Biswal nga Komunikasyon Competition Category.

PuthawGrapiko· 2025

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster sa Pahayagan

by Yang Tian

A' Design Award nga Puthaw Winner in Grapiko Category

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The Design

About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster sa Pahayagan

Aron bag-uhong pag-ila sa Modernidad sa Japan human sa gera, si Kisho Kurokawa, ang pinakabatan nga miyembro sa grupong Metabolism, naghanduraw sa modernong puy-anan isip indibidwal nga mga selula. Kini molihok, motunga, motubo, ug molata, nga nagpahibalo sa bag-ong katilingban diin ang mga tawo wala na magpuyo sa pihado nga luna. Ang Unfolding a Nakagin Story naggamit sa pahayagan isip medium aron idokumento ug palawakon kining imahinasyon sa Metabolism, pinaagi sa pagbuklad aron maghimo og istorya sa kasyudaran.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award nga Puthaw

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster sa Pahayagan usa ka mananaog sa A' Design Award nga Puthaw, usa ka dungganon nga pag-ila nga gihatag sa maayong mga disenyo nga nakatagbo sa propesyonal ug industriyal nga mga gikinahanglan nga gipaabot gikan sa maayo ang pagkadisenyo nga mga paglalang. Ang mga mananaog sa Puthaw nagpakita og dakong kahanas, taas nga espesyalisasyon, eksperto nga pagsabot, ug mamugnaon nga abilidad sa ilang mga tiglalang. Gilauman nga ang Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster sa Pahayagan mahimong gipabilhan, gihangaan, ug gihigugma nga paglalang nga praktikal ug bag-o. Kini nga disenyo nga nakadaog og A' Design Award nga Puthaw naghiusa sa labing maayong mga praktis sa industriya ug adunay hanas nga teknikal nga mga kinaiya nga nalambigit sa kahibalo ug talento. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster sa Pahayagan gitahod tungod sa pagkamaabtik niini ug gidisenyo aron maghatag og mga pagpaayo sa kalidad sa kinabuhi nga makatabang sa paghimo sa kalibutan nga mas maayong dapit.

Behind the Design

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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!