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Vox Wuhan – Jump!

ImageJune 1, 2022June 1, 2022taospacewuhan, china, interior, design, vox

Sugar from a C2C World @XXI Triennale

January 18, 2018September 17, 2020taoresearchculture, milan, 2016, research, italy, competition, china, exhibition

On October 2015, yoko saw a news on Facebook, shared by a never-really-talked friend. It was a call for under-35 designers participating the 21st triennial of Milan.

The Tower

January 17, 2018September 17, 2020taoobjectpublic space, 2016, user participation, sculpture, new media, screen, china, wuhan, installation

In his 30s, our artist friend CK asked us to design his apartment. In our near 30s, together with his new media studio, we did an illuminated tower in Wuhan. Surely, at the beginning, nobody knew there would be a tower.

The Chosen Wall: Studio Network Party

January 17, 2018September 17, 2020taospace2013, interior, china, wuhan

Cai Kai is a new media artist but quite familiar with design, since he used to earn his life by doing “day job” in design companies. Now, with the other partners, he opened his own firm: Network Party.

Temp Space & Time-plot Ratio

January 15, 2018September 17, 2020taospacechina, public space, art, research, interior, 2009, beijing

Elaine W. Ho went to Hong Kong for two weeks and left the work-live space of HomeShop on Xiaojingchang Hutong to Tao. As an exchange, Tao was asked to make the residency term a means “to finish a project here”. His architecture internship at the firm Limited Design consisted of working from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays including the commute, which meant that only sleeping hours were spent at HomeShop. As it happened, this project was inspired by just such a relationship between time and space.

Sticks

January 15, 2018September 17, 2020taoobjectproduct, user participation, 2008, urban, china, public space

It was in third year of our undergraduate program, a new café opened near our dormitory. Soon, it became a gathering place of students. They came here for dating, chatting, reading, and making theme party occasionally. The owner, Zhang Fan, was also an university student, majoring in marketing.

Fú

January 19, 2018September 17, 2020taoimagevisual identity, logo, china, 2014, think twice, communication, competition

“What do you think you are looking at?” We asked friends and colleagues with the picture on the right. Paper-cut? Red envelope? Package for Spring Festival gift? Wedding invitation? None of them really did the answer we had expected to hear—the mounted Chinese character Fú (福), a traditional way of celebrating Spring Festival. We were shocked about this since we had thought confidently that nobody would misunderstood it, but the fact gave us a solid slap. It urged us to review our design strategy completely, which brought us our second proposal. —Now, it would be good to talk about the things that happened prior to this very moment.