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Vox Wuhan – Jump!

ImageJune 1, 2022June 1, 2022taospaceinterior, china, wuhan, vox, design

The Tower

January 17, 2018March 23, 2024taoobjectpublic space, 2016, user participation, 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 Tower (video)

ImageJanuary 18, 2018March 23, 2024taoobjectpublic space, art, 2016, china, wuhan, installation

The Chosen Wall: Studio Network Party

January 17, 2018March 23, 2024taospace2013, 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 jobs” in design companies. Now, with the other partners, he opened his own studio: Network Party.

Fú

January 19, 2018March 20, 2024taoimagecompetition, china, visual identity, logo, think twice, 2014, communication

“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 got the answer we had expected to hear—the Chinese character Fú (福) on the door of every family, a traditional way of celebrating Spring Festival. We were shocked about this since we were so confident that nobody would misunderstood it. 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.

Temp Space & Time-plot Ratio

January 15, 2018March 22, 2024taospace, researchpublic space, art, research, interior, 2009, china, 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, 2018March 20, 2024taoobjectproduct, public space, user participation, 2008, urban, china

It was the third year of our undergraduate program, a new café called C6 opened near our dormitory. Soon, it became a gathering place for students. They came here for dating, chatting, reading, and partying. The owner, Zhang Fan, was also an university student, majoring in marketing.