Unfolding A Nakagin Story Постери рӯзнома by Yang Tian

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Постери рӯзнома by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Ҷоизаи оҳании A' Design Award in Дизайни графика, тасвирсозӣ ва иртиботи визуалӣ Competition Category.

ОҳанГрафика· 2025

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Постери рӯзнома

by Yang Tian

Ҷоизаи оҳании A' Design Award Winner in Графика Category

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The Design

About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Постери рӯзнома

Барои муайян кардани дубораи навгароии Ҷопон пас аз ҷанг, Кишо Курокава, ҷавонтарин аъзои гурӯҳи Метаболизм, хонасозии муосирро ҳамчун ҳуҷайраҳои алоҳида тасаввур мекунад. Онҳо ҳаракат мекунанд, ҳазм мекунанд, мерӯянд ва табоҳ мешаванд, ва ҷомеаи навро муаррифӣ мекунанд, ки дар он одамон дигар дар фазои собит зиндагӣ намекунанд. Кушодани Ҳикояи Накагин рӯзномаро ҳамчун воситаи ҳуҷҷатнигорӣ ва густариши ин тасаввури Метаболизм истифода мебарад, тавассути кушодан барои сохтани ҳикояи шаҳрӣ.

The Recognition

About the Ҷоизаи оҳании A' Design Award

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Постери рӯзнома ғолиби Ҷоизаи оҳании A' Design Award аст, ки эътирофи обрӯманд буда, ба тарҳҳои хуб дода мешавад, ки талаботи касбӣ ва саноатиро, ки аз офаридаҳои хуб тарҳрезишуда интизор меравад, иҷро мекунанд. Ғолибони оҳан маҳорати бузург, ихтисоси баланд, фаҳмиши коршиносона ва иқтидори эҷодии офаринандагони худро нишон медиҳанд. Интизор меравад, ки Unfolding A Nakagin Story Постери рӯзнома офаридаи хеле қадршуда, мавриди таҳсин ва маҳбуб бошад, ки амалӣ ва навоварона аст. Ин тарҳи ғолиби Ҷоизаи оҳании A' Design Award беҳтарин амалияи соҳаро муттаҳид мекунад ва хусусиятҳои босалоҳияти фаннӣ дорад, ки бо донишҳои амалӣ ва истеъдод пайваст шудаанд. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Постери рӯзнома барои диққаткорияш эҳтиром мешавад ва барои таъмини беҳбудиҳои сифати зиндагӣ, ки ба беҳтар кардани ҷаҳон кумак мекунанд, тарҳрезӣ шудааст.

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!