Asia Student Package Design Competition open for entriesBy Minh Tuan One of the designs that won the 2017 ASPaC Awards - PHOTO: COURTESY OF ASPAC The 2018 Asia Student Package Design Competition (ASPaC) has begun receiving entries. The prizes include 200,000 yen in cash and a free trip to Tokyo, Japan to attend the ASPaC Week. The theme of the contest is innovation which is broadly described as a new method, idea and product. The challenge is to create packaging of any kind that has never existed before. If professional designers tackle this challenge in the real world, they would need to deal with issues such as material, technology and manufacturing cost. Students participating in ASPaC, however, are free to ignore these practical problems and to approach the problem on the purely conceptual level of “Wouldn’t it be great if we could do package design like this?” ASPaC is a new international cultural exchange project that the Japan Foundation and the … [Read more...] about Asia Student Package Design Competition open for entries
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Vietnamese painter wins silver in international design competition
Arts Vietnamese painter wins silver in international design competition Thursday, Apr 19, 2018,19:16 (GMT+7) Vietnamese painter wins silver in international design competition Painter Nguyen Thu Thuy poses next to her ceramic artwork at the Mirror House - PHOTO: VNA Vietnamese female painter Nguyen Thu Thuy has won a silver in the Good Communication Design category of the International A’Design Awards & Competitions for her ceramic designs for Nha Guong (Mirror House) in Hanoi’s Thong Nhat Park. Scoring 89 out of 100 points, Thuy’s artwork was highly appreciated for its contribution to promoting the national identity and the beauty of Vietnam’s nature. The Mirror House, or Laughing House, was built by the then Czechoslovakia in 1979 as a gift for Hanoi City. It was like a huge snail shell, with 50 mirrors showing distorted reflections of visitors, according to news website Vietnamplus. In … [Read more...] about Vietnamese painter wins silver in international design competition
Hanoi, HCM City win TPO’s best marketing campaign award
Awards are presented at the closing ceremony of the eighth Tourism Promotion Organisation for Asian-Pacific Cities Forum in HCM City on June 22 (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City were presented with the best marketing campaign award at the closing session of the eighth Tourism Promotion Organisation for Asian-Pacific Cities (TPO) Forum on June 22. The organising board also presented other awards, including for the best print advertisement, the best festival and event, the best tourism promotion campaign, the best tourism brochure, the best website, and the best destination manager. Addressing the closing ceremony, Deputy Director of the HCM City Department of Tourism Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa thanked the TPO Executive Committee for choosing her city to be host of the biennial TPO Forum. She said HCM City will continue to fulfill its role in the TPO’s activities which will support the southern city of Vietnam to develop tourism strongly in the time … [Read more...] about Hanoi, HCM City win TPO’s best marketing campaign award
Vietnamese girls win third prize at US science fair with antibiotic resistance solution
Two Vietnamese high school students claimed third award for their research on an antibiotic resistant infection at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in the U.S. on Sunday, the organizing committee said on its website. Pham Thi Minh Hue and Le Tuyet Quynh Anh from the northern city of Hai Phong were named among four third-award winners in the biochemistry category and brought home $1,000 for their project named “A Solution for Antibiotic Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection in Vietnam.” This was the only award-winning project among eight Vietnamese entries at this year contest. Vietnam’s antibiotics sales have doubled since 2009, with more people taking unnecessary prescriptions, putting the community more at risk of drug resistance, experts said at conference in Hanoi this month. The World Health Organization has listed Vietnam among the list of nations with the highest rate of antibiotic-resistant infections, standing at 33 … [Read more...] about Vietnamese girls win third prize at US science fair with antibiotic resistance solution
Vietnamese documentary wins at Top Shorts film festival
Painter Nguyễn Thu Thủy presents her mural to soldiers, a scene in the film directed by Nguyễn Nghiêm Nhan. — Photo courtesy of the artistViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — A documentary about the ceramic art of Nguyễn Thu Thủy won two prizes at the Top Shorts online film festival, the organiser announced recently on its website. The film Thu Thủy - A Dream of Ceramics was directed by Nguyễn Nghiêm Nhan from Việt Nam Television during 2006-17. It tracks the career of painter Thủy, who has created various notable artworks, such as the Ceramic Road along Red River (Guinness World Record for being the largest ceramic mosaic in the world), Mirror House in downtown Hà Nội (silver trophy at the International A’ Design Awards 2018) and a mural of Vietnamese trees and flowers at Đà Nẵng International Airport (a bronze at the 10th International Design Awards in Los Angeles, US). … [Read more...] about Vietnamese documentary wins at Top Shorts film festival