At the World Front Design Award 2025 Autumn Season, Yen Chang Chen from Yuan Ze University was awarded the Grand Prize – Best Design of the Season / Best Digital Communication for The “Kao-Bei” Cup , a social creative design project that transforms everyday Taiwanese language into an accessible, participatory cultural object. Rooted in vernacular speech, museum communication, and daily ritual, The Award-Winning “Kao-Bei” Cup demonstrates how design can operate not only as f

In Expectations of Life , Huang Teng Zhu transforms deeply personal life experiences into a contemplative oil painting that speaks to universal emotional transitions. Rooted in family relationships and the subtle shift of generational roles, the work reflects on how love, care, and expectation move quietly from one generation to the next. Rather than presenting a dramatic narrative, the painting unfolds like a memory—softened by time, shaped by emotional distance, and held to

At the Future Art & Design Award UK 2025 Winter Season, jewellery designer XU Jiawen Karmen was awarded the Platinum Prize in Accessory Design for her work The Royal Coral. The piece stands out for its deeply rooted Eastern cultural language, refined material choices, and a contemporary reinterpretation of traditional values—presented through handcrafted jewellery. Rather than pursuing ornamentation alone, The Royal Coral reflects an intellectual and spiritual inquiry into w

Hytree Studio, led by Liu Yu-shu, has been awarded the Gold Prize in the Future Art & Design Award UK 2025 Winter Season for the project Moonlight Woven Love: Fairy Steps in the Garden. Rooted in Taiwanese folk belief and classical Chinese love narratives, Moonlight Woven Love transforms a historic garden into a living stage where romance, memory, and technology intertwine. By inviting audiences to actively participate through digital interaction, the work challenges the not

Takeshi Yamamoto, based in Yamanashi, Japan, has been awarded the Silver Award in Nature & Experimental Photography – Surreal & Fantasy at the World Grand Prix Photography Award 2025 Winter Season for his work Silent Flame. Rather than capturing spectacle or dramatic action, Silent Flame turns inward—toward stillness, restraint, and what remains unseen. The photograph operates not as a document of an event, but as a quiet field of awareness, where tension exists without displ

Sophie Colline has been awarded two Platinum Prizes at the Future Art & Design Award UK 2025 Winter Season. Among the awarded works is Symbiosis – Weaving a Net Zero Life, which received the Platinum Prize in Product Concept Design, developed in collaboration with Tex Tile Enterprise Co., Ltd. (Taiwan). Rooted in material reuse, philosophical reflection, and industry–academia collaboration, Symbiosis – Weaving a Net Zero Life transforms discarded textile scraps into a woven o