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DZGN featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Middle of nowhere

Middle of Nowhere is a 404 error page created for a research organization website. A 404 page appears when a requested webpage does not exist, and this design turns that moment into a visit to imagined places. The landscapes shown are made by a generative adversarial network, a machine learning model trained on thousands of photographs of real landscapes from around the world. The results are places that exist nowhere. The page is built as a responsive website, and the intent is to make being lost online calm and engaging.

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Tokyu Garden City

Tokyu Garden City is the visual identity and website for an urban development project in Binh Duong New City, Vietnam. The design is based on the city theme Always New. Thin lines express newness and thick lines express growth, linking Japanese and Vietnamese design. The website presents basic information and articles about the city in Vietnamese, English and Japanese. The site is built with React and a headless content management system, so updates stay simple. Animation and fixed menus guide users from any page.

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Hand Still

Hand Still is a participatory art project created to support well-being. Participants combine their hands and fingers to suggest a landscape or a creature, photograph the pose, give the image a title, and share the result on social networks with a common tag. Viewing the shared works and creating new ones is intended to increase creativity. Hand Still applies four factors linked to well-being: self-actualization and growth, connection and gratitude, a positive and optimistic outlook, and independence and self-identity.

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Flying in Dreams

Flying in Dreams is a photography series created with the levitation photography technique. The series shows children in white outfits appearing to float above the ground. Each image is composed from two or more frames taken from the same angle, with and without the subject. The frame without the subject is used to remove the supports that held each pose. The series was produced through location scouting, outfit making, pose and prop planning, lighting setup, shooting and digital editing. The intent is to express the purity of childhood dreams.

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IKARUS

Ikarus is a photography series showing preserved bird specimens from extinct or highly endangered species. Each bird is portrayed in the manner of a Rembrandt painting, and the background of every portrait is a macro photograph of the feathers of that bird. The specimens were photographed in the ornithology collection of the Senckenberg Institute in Dresden, Germany. The title refers to the legend of Icarus, who flew too high and fell into the sea. Ikarus is the third part of a series collection called Neglect. The works are produced on ChromaLuxe material in limited editions.

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Limited Space

Limited Space is an good photography design. The work shows some emotions and behaviors of long-term homebound people in limited space during Covid-19, thus evoking empathy and evoking some reflections on the past and cherishing a healthy life in the future. Those who have seen this set of photos may feel the urge to tear off the gray film, which is exactly what he wants.

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