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Local designer wins Asia-Pacific Face Mask Competition

by vietnamnet.vn

Vietnamese designer Nguyen Dang Binh has finished first in the “3-Colors” category in the Kingston x CSD Asia-Pacific (APAC) Mask Design Competition.

His artwork features the theme “Doodling Paper” and impressed many viewers with its amusing style. Indeed, Binh capably illustrated his memories from university through the different faces of his friends, sending a message to art lovers to continue with their passion.

The competition was first launched in November, 2020, receiving over 3,100 entries from design experts and enthusiasts across the APAC region.

A video aimed at introducing the designs submitted by the competition’s top 10 finalists attracted a total of 625,000 views.

Most notably, the challenge is split into two categories, including “3-Colors” and the “Unlimited Colors”, with Nguyen Dang Binh of Vietnam and Yman.S of Malaysia ultimately being honoured in their respective categories.

The winner claims a cash prize of US$5,000, a cup, and self-designed face masks.

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Vinfast seeks excellent designs for its global showrooms

by en.vietnamplus.vn

Vinfast seeks excellent designs for its global showrooms hinh anh 1 Vinfast is seeking excellent designs for its global showrooms. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Design Association – HCM City has launched the “ VinFast Global Showroom Design Competition 2021” to find the most outstanding design idea for VinFast’s global showrooms.

The contest, which offers cash prizes worth more than 60,000 USD, seeks outstanding showroom design ideas that can represent the carmaker’s vision and core values.

Contestants are required to send their entries in 3D design with three main items: exterior architectural space with an area of 30m by 20m, a standard car showroom with a minimum area of 10m by 7m and a creative zone also the same size.

The deadline for submitting entries is February 25.

The most unique and impressive entries will be displayed at Times Square, New York, US, in April.

There will be one first prize worth 40,000 USD, three second prizes worth 3,000 USD each, five third prizes worth 1,000 USD each and 41 consolation prizes worth 200 USD each.

The winners will also have the opportunity to work with VinFast.

VinFast, a subsidiary of Vingroup, one of Asia’s leading conglomerates, is Vietnam’s only indigenous car brand, and currently makes the Lux SA2.0, Lux A2.0 and Fadil.

It has researched and developed the first three-level 3-4 Autonomous Smart EV models with 30 smart features, underlining its vision to become a global smart electric mobility company./.

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Industrial Designers Society of Hong Kong Recruit Local Talents for “ReMix · Yesterday’s Future, Invent Tomorrow!”

by bizhub.vn

Relaunch Historical Hong Kong Brands to Achieve New Heights

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 9 February 2021 – Industrial Designers Society of Hong Kong (IDSHK) has always strived to promote the professional standards of industrial designs and to elevate the professional status of industrial designers in Hong Kong.

For the first time, IDSHK will organize the “ReMix · Yesterday’s Future, Invent Tomorrow!” (Remix) program. The program will bring local industrial designers and historical Hong Kong brands together, with the alliance of igniting creativity sparks and infusing new perspectives into established brands. The brands that will collaborate for the program are: Made by Carmel, Chicks, Red Apple, Yuet Tung China Works X Tung Hing Glass & Metal Ware and AXIS watch.

“Remix” is now inviting talented designers, design teams or companies to participate in this year’s program: relaunch historical Hong Kong brands to achieve new heights.

The “ReMix” program aims to align design teams with the collaborating brands. All new products will be design-led throughout the product development process, creating a series of products with unique style and characters.

Mr. Leung Chun-Fai, President of the Hong Kong Industrial Designers Association said: “Most people have limited understanding of industrial design in Hong Kong because industrial designers have always been the unsung heroes behind international brands. Through this program, we spark to showcase the charm of Hong Kong designs, let people enjoy the results of excellent designs and appreciate Hong Kong brands from new perspectives, and thus achieving a triple win situation!”

To participate in the program, applicants have to first submit their CVs and past portfolios. Then the applicants put forward the brands they are interested in, together with the reasons for their choices and views on future busines opportunities on the program website. The short-listed applicants will then be invited to present their design ideas to representatives of the brands and the assessment panel in an interview via video conference. Finally, the selected applicants will collaborate and design new products with leading local brands, and be awarded royalty fees and design credits for their new products. Apart from media interviews for the selected designers, the new products will be promoted in roving exhibitions and major online and offline sales channels.

Application starts on 18 January 2021. Deadline for the first part of the application is 28 February 2021. For more details, please visit the IDSHK website at http://www.idshk.org/yesterdays-future-invent-tomorrow/. For further questions, please send email to [email protected] or call 3586 8831 directly.

 

Important Dates:

Application starts

Email: from 18 January 2021

Online: from 18 February 2021

Deadline for 1st part of the application

28 Feb 2021

Deadline for 2nd part of the application

10 March 2021

Interviews

29 March 2021

Announcement

Early April 2021

New Product Development and Production

Early April to December 2021

 

Application Eligibility:

  • Team of 1-3 designers (at least half of the team members must be a HKID card holder) OR a Hong Kong registered company.
  • One of the team members must be

-  a member of IDSHK

-  OR an industrial designer with qualification* and at least 3 years of working experience

-  OR an industrial designer without relevant qualification but have more than 5 years of working experience in product design.

*Qualification means a recognized diploma/ associate degree/ university degree holder or above in product/ industrial design or related disciplines.

 

Advisory /& Assessment Panel:

Mr. LEUNG Chun-Fai

President, Industrial Designers Society of Hong Kong (IDSHK)

Dr. Charles CHAN

Founder and Director, Tunbow Group

Mr. Tommy LI

Creative Director, Tommy Li Design Workshop Ltd.

Mr. MUI Yiu-Cheung (Kelvin)

Founding Director, Axiom Design Partnership Ltd.

Ms. Agatha TSANG

Founder, Bon Bone Design

Mr. Elmond CHEUNG

Vice President, city’super brand, City Super Group

About Industrial Designers Society of Hong Kong

Industrial Designers Society of Hong Kong (IDSHK) is a non-profit organization founded in 2002. IDSHK aims to promote state-of-the-art and professional practice of Hong Kong’s industrial design, and to leverage its status. In 2004, IDSHK has established and implemented the “Professional Practice & Contract Template for Hong Kong Industrial Designers”. It is expected to foster the public interests to the value of industrial design (ID).

IDSHK promotes knowledge exchange regularly through ID seminars, knowledge-sharing forums, mentor workshops and visits to the international ID Expo & Forum in China. IDSHK has successfully established collaborations and strategic alliance partnership with industrial bodies and education institutes.

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Vietnamese student wins People’s Choice award at international graphic design contest

by e.vnexpress.net

Tenth grader Nguyen Thanh of Nguyen Tat Thanh High School in Hanoi beat 200,000 rivals from 20 nations worldwide to win the prize at the contest between July 28-31.

During the ACAWC 2019 final round, contestants competed in three design categories, including making a design for an Instagram post, a banner for an email and a poster themed “Giving Tuesday,” often stylized as #GivingTuesday for the purposes of hashtag activism, referring to the Tuesday after U.S. Thanksgiving in the U.S.

Since its inauguration in November 2012, Giving Tuesday has become a global movement to create an international day of charitable giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season.

Nguyen Thanh’s name is announced at the ACAWC 2019, and his final project that won him the People’s Choice award. Photo courtersy of ACAWC.

Nguyen Thanh’s name is announced at the ACAWC 2019, and his final project that won him the People’s Choice award. Photo courtersy of ACAWC.

The first, second and third prizes were won by contestants from Macau, Peru and Sweden. They were chosen by a panel of judges and received respective cash prizes of $7,000, $3,500 and $1,500.

Vietnam sent three representatives this year, the second time it has participated in this contest.

The other two are college students. Along with Thanh, they were chosen from a national contest organized earlier this year by Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and IIG, an English-teaching organization working in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

Launched in 2013, ACAWC is a global competition that identifies the next generation of design professionals using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.

Organized by U.S.-based Certiport, a provider of learning curriculum, practice tests, and performance-based information-technology certification exams that accelerate academic and career opportunities for learners, the award is held annually for students aged between 13 and 22 around the world.

Mini wind kit, bird strike prevention designed for wind power generator

by english.thesaigontimes.vn

Mini wind kit, bird strike prevention designed for wind power generator

By Takeaki Uchida

Takeaki Uchida, CEO of ICM COMMUNICATIONS CO., LTD

According to IHS Markit, Vietnam is among the top three nations with the fastest growth of shift to renewable energy in the Asia Pacific after Australia and Japan.

I have traveled to several SEA countries, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, and found that Vietnam holds high potential for developing renewable energy such as solar, wind, biomass and wave.

So far, the proportion of solar power investment in Vietnam is so big. Meanwhile, wind power projects and capacity are not significant.

For solar power, in developing countries like Vietnam, investors are not keen on the ESS system that stores electricity for night use.

Instead, the Government of Vietnam encourages investors by offering a nice purchase price of electricity, and grid connection from household and factories who install the solar system (without ESS system).

For the solar system, you can install for household and factory use, and you can install mega farms and connect to the grid to sell electricity to EVN.

But for wind power, you can only install wind farms to sell electricity to EVN. The good point of wind power is that it generates power 24/7, unlike solar.

However, the popular wind turbine in the world is quite big (more than 2 megawatts). There is almost no mini wind turbine for household and factory use.

During my business life, I have invented (with registered patents in Japan) a wind power system called “mini wind power generator,” which has a capacity of a few hundred kilowatts to less than a megawatt.

I also invented the system that prevents bird strikes (registered patent in Japan). Indeed, at wind farms, bird-strikes create severe damages to the whole system.

I am working hard now with my Vietnamese partner, Pacific Group, to set up mini wind power generators and a system that prevents bird strikes.

I hope that my invention and investment in Vietnam will help the country exploit wind resources more efficiently. More families and factory owners can afford wind power for their daily use 24/7.

Dung Quat Refinery operates at 108 percent of design capacity

by en.vietnamplus.vn

Dung Quat Refinery operates at 108 percent of design capacity hinh anh 1 A corner of the Dung Quat Oil Refinery (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical JSC (BSR) has operated Dung Quat Oil Refinery at 108 percent of its design capacity in a safe and stable fashion in February to meet the domestic market’s increasing demand during the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

According to BSR Deputy General Director Bui Ngoc Duong, thanks to the sound operation, the company was able to take advantage of an increase in prices of global crude oil, and better crack margin.

Flexible adjustments have been made to the Dung Quat Oil Refinery’s operation so as to optimise the output of RON 95, RON 92 and diesel, while reducing the amount of Jet-A1 fuel since demand for the fuel remained weak due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Duong added, with the regular maintenance of the plant, the refinery’s Energy Intensity Index (EII) reached 103 percent in the first two months, helping cutting energy consumption and production costs.

With a view to diversifying input materials at competitive prices for the Dung Quat Oil Refinery, the BSR tested two new kinds of crude oil, Qua Iboe of Nigeria and Cabinda of Angola.

Duong said the company is going to export 250 tonnes of Homo PP Yarn T3045. Earlier, it shipped 150 tonnes of Homo PP Yarn T3050 abroad, helping improve efficiency of production and business activities./.

VNA