Unfolding A Nakagin Story Laikraksta plakāts by Yang Tian

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Laikraksta plakāts by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Dzelzs balva A' Design Award in Grafikas, ilustrāciju un vizuālās komunikācijas dizains Competition Category.

DzelzsGrafika· 2025

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Laikraksta plakāts

by Yang Tian

Dzelzs balva A' Design Award Winner in Grafika Category

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The Design

About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Laikraksta plakāts

Lai pārdefinētu Japānas modernismu pēc kara, Kišo Kurokava, jaunākais Metabolisma grupas dalībnieks, iedomājas mūsdienu mājokļus kā atsevišķas šūnas. Tās pārvietojas, metabolizē, aug un sairst, veidojot jaunu sabiedrību, kurā cilvēki vairs nedzīvo fiksētā telpā. Unfolding a Nakagin Story izmanto laikrakstu kā mediju, lai dokumentētu un paplašinātu šo Metabolisma vīziju, caur atveršanu radot urbānu stāstu.

The Recognition

About the Dzelzs balva A' Design Award

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Laikraksta plakāts ir Dzelzs balvas A' Design Award ieguvējs, prestiža atzinība, ko piešķir labiem dizainiem, kas atbilst profesionālajām un rūpnieciskajām prasībām, kādas sagaidāmas no labi izstrādātiem darbiem. Dzelzs ieguvēji parāda to radītāju lielo prasmi, augsto specializāciju, ekspertu izpratni un radošo spēju. Sagaidāms, ka Unfolding A Nakagin Story Laikraksta plakāts būs augsti vērtēts, apbrīnots un cienīts darbs, praktisks un inovatīvs. Šis ar Dzelzs balvu apbalvotais dizains integrē nozares labāko praksi un tam ir kompetentas tehniskās īpašības, kas saistītas ar zinātību un talantu. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Laikraksta plakāts tiek cienīts par rūpību un ir izstrādāts, lai uzlabotu dzīves kvalitāti un palīdzētu padarīt pasauli labāku.

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!