ICOCI Magazine

ICOCI Magazine

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

 

Playful Hut

This eco-friendly packaging combines practicality and creativity, ensuring product safety during transport while giving packaging new life through innovative design. Made from 100% biodegradable materials, it addresses the pain points of traditional packaging in handling and usage, offering a more efficient production process and a more convenient user experience. The design also supports reuse, reducing waste and providing DIY fun for families, making sustainability a part of everyday life.

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Bishan

The renewal of Bishan Librairy is to allow people to re-recognize and re-experience this ancestral hall of historical and cultural, so as to shape a sense of belonging, and to keep the cultural heritage under the realization of functional and economic values. The renewal of Bishan Bookstore is to let people re-recognize and experience this ancestral hall of historical.

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Takanabe Ninomaru

Takanabe Historical Museum, established in 1986, was reimagined to address declining visitor engagement due to outdated exhibits. The redesign embraced JIN, the philosophy of benevolence, transforming it into a cultural and educational hub fostering civic pride. Through visual storytelling and spatial design, the renewal introduced thematic curation, immersive exhibitions, and layered acrylic panels symbolizing historical continuity. Renamed Ninomaru History Museum, it now serves as an interactive space where heritage, education, and community connect.

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AI Sealer

The AI Sealer project merges traditional Chinese seal carving with intelligent manufacturing. This design enables users to customize seals via a three step process: text input, font selection, and layout adjustment. Seal designs are certifiable as NFTs. Beyond digital use, AI Sealer extends to physical creation. A carving machine produces tangible seals, and digital designs apply to items like tote bags and electronics.

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Transition

The exhibition updates the 1400 year tradition of Japanese flower arrangement, Ikebana, for contemporary spaces. It forms an environment where visitors experience floral art through multiple senses. The open layout without walls allows visitors to walk freely and view installations from various angles, replacing traditional frontal observation. Natural sunlight and responsive lighting shift throughout the day, causing the space and the living flowers to change continuously. The design turns flower viewing into an active and dynamic process.

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Box Factory

This Zero Energy, low carbon project has operational data that confirms its actual performance. It is an all electric building that relies on onsite solar to meet its energy needs, with heat pumps providing heating and cooling. Careful siting and form work as hard as the systems, with the building oriented to local wind patterns and sun angles. Box Factory integrates climate resilience, innovation, and community impact through thoughtful design. During the 2022 Electra Fire, which burned 4,500 acres in Amador County, the project proved itself resilient and climate ready.

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World's greatest design teams.

Sometimes you need a very big team of talented designers to come up with truly great designs. Everyday, we feature a distinct award-winning innovative and creative design team. Explore and discover original and creative architecture, good design, fashion, graphics design and design strategy projects from design teams worldwide. Get inspired by the original works by grand master designers.

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