Unfolding A Nakagin Story Газета Плакаты by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Тимер бүләге in Графика, Иллюстрация һәм Визуаль Коммуникация Дизайны Competition Category.
ТимерГрафика· 2025
Unfolding A Nakagin Story Газета Плакаты
by Yang Tian
A' Design Award Тимер бүләге Winner in Графика Category
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The Design
About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Газета Плакаты
Сугыштан соң Япониянең модернлыгын яңадан билгеләү өчен, Метаболизм төркеменең иң яшь әгъзасы Кишо Курокава заманча торакларны аерым күзәнәкләр рәвешендә күз алдына китерә. Алар хәрәкәт итәләр, сеңдереләр, үсәләр һәм ирәләр, кешеләр инде тотрыклы киңлектә яшәмәгән яңа җәмгыять турында хәбәр итәләр. Nakagin Тарихын Ачу проекты газетаны Метаболизм күзаллавын документлаштыру һәм киңәйтү чарасы буларак куллана, шәһәр хикәясен төзү өчен ачылу аша.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Тимер бүләге
Unfolding A Nakagin Story Газета Плакаты – A' Design Award Тимер бүләге җиңүчесе, бу яхшы эшләнгән иҗат җимешләреннән көтелгән профессиональ һәм сәнәгать таләпләренә җавап бирә торган яхшы дизайннарга бирелә торган абруйлы танып белү. Тимер җиңүчеләре үз авторларының зур осталыгын, югары махсуслашуын, белгечләрчә аңлавын һәм иҗади сәләтен күрсәтә. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Газета Плакаты югары бәяләнгән, соклана торган һәм яратыла торган, практик һәм яңа иҗат җимеше булыр дип көтелә. A' Design Award Тимер бүләге җиңүче бу дизайн тармакның иң яхшы практикасын берләштерә һәм белем һәм талант белән бәйләнгән компетентлы техник үзлекләргә ия. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Газета Плакаты җентеклелеге өчен хөрмәтләнә һәм дөньяны яхшырак урынга әйләндерергә булышучы тормыш сыйфатын яхшырту өчен эшләнгән.
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!
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