Marc VanDermeer from United States has been awarded the Gold Award in Black & White & Fine Art Photography – Minimalism at the World Grand Prix Photography Award 2025 Winter Season for his work Bird on a Wire—a photograph that transforms visual excess into quiet clarity through restraint, patience, and decisive reduction. Captured in 2025 on the older south side of South Norwalk, Connecticut, the image originated from what initially felt like a failed frame. VanDermeer had s

Yu-Meng Ko has been awarded the Gold Prize in the Mixed Media Painting category at the Future Art & Design Award UK 2025 Winter Season for her work The Rabbit’s Plea . At first glance, The Rabbit’s Plea appears tender and delicate—a soft white rabbit rendered with care and sensitivity. Yet beneath its gentle surface lies a profound ethical question about ownership, vulnerability, and how humans relate to animals that cannot speak for themselves. Rather than confronting viewe

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