&FRIENDS has been honoured with the Diamond Prize – Best Branding of the Season at the 2025 Global Best Creative Awards in the Advertising category for their outstanding project, Campari – The Bartender. Campari – The Bartender by &FRIENDS About the Company &FRIENDS is a full service creative production company, helping brands maximise the impact of their marketing content. Project Overview Off the back of our previous year’s work with Campari in Cannes, the brand approach

At the Future Art & Design Award 2025 Winter Season, interdisciplinary artist Qionglu Shi (JingYu) achieved remarkable international recognition across multiple categories. Her works received: Gold Prize — Mixed Media Painting for Archive of a Post-Human Dawn; Gold Prize — Fiber Art for Profusion of Brocade; Silver Prize — Public Art and Installation Art for Specimens of Time. Together, these accolades highlight a practice that moves fluidly between material experimentation,

At the Best Photography Awards UK 2026 Spring Season, photographer Ching-Chang Wu was awarded the Gold Award in Mobile Photography – Landscape for the evocative work The City in the Mist. Blending intuition, atmosphere, and philosophical restraint, Wu’s image captures a fleeting moment in which a vast Taiwanese metropolis dissolves into layers of mountain and haze. Rather than imposing narrative, the work invites viewers into a quiet space of perception—where scale, civiliza

At the Future Art & Design Award 2025 Winter Season, Ella Wilkins was awarded the Gold Prize in Fashion Design for The Vermilion Aperture, a work that draws from Taiwanese temple architecture to construct a garment rooted in structure, symbolism, and movement. Blending her background as a professional artistic roller skater with formal training in fashion and stage costume design, Ella approaches clothing as both spatial construction and performative form. The Vermilion Aper

At the Future Art & Design Award 2025 Winter Season, Black Label Production Company and designer Chan Wing Chiu received the Gold Prize in Character Art & Creative Design for PLANET ADVENTURE – Ryunosuke, a character-driven work that transforms the idea of adventure into a visual narrative of resilience, imagination, and personal growth. Rather than treating adventure as spectacle alone, PLANET ADVENTURE – Ryunosuke approaches it as a metaphor for life—one that speaks directl

At the Future Art & Design Award UK 2025, Avery Chien has achieved a rare distinction—winning awards in two consecutive seasons across two different disciplines, a feat that reflects both range and depth in her creative practice. Avery Chien In the 2025 Autumn Season, she was awarded the Platinum Prize in Fashion Design for "The Mark She Left" , a work praised by the jury for its structure, emotional precision, and mature handling of identity through garment form. Just one s

At the World Grand Prix Photography Awards 2025 Winter Season, photographer Weonbae Park was awarded the Gold Award in Black & White & Fine Art Photography – Silhouettes for the work People Silhouette. Recognised not for spectacle but for philosophical depth, People Silhouette presents a quiet yet powerful meditation on what photography fundamentally is—and what it can still be in an age saturated with images. Rather than competing with painting through excess technique or v

At the Future Art & Design Award UK 2025 Winter Season, Vinci Weng | VINCI WENG Studio for digital fine art was awarded the Gold Prize in the category of Digital Composite Photography – Conceptual / Experimental for the work The Enchanted Joylands – Elysium-I. Blending photographic realism with painterly poetics, Elysium-I is part of Weng’s ongoing digital fine art series The Enchanted Joylands—a project that draws inspiration from cinematic staging, classical Chinese picto

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

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

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

At the World Grand Prix Photography Awards 2025 Winter Season, Mr. Jophel Botero Ybiosa was awarded the Platinum Award and Best Photo of the Season in Documentary & People Photography – Photojournalism for his powerful work “The Mud People Festival in Nueva Ecija.” Captured during one of the Philippines’ most distinctive religious traditions, the photograph documents the annual Mud People Festival (Pagsa-San Juan / Taong Putik) in Aliaga, Nueva Ecija. Rooted in humility, dev

At the Future Art & Design Award UK 2025 Winter Season, Pei-Ling Lee was awarded the Gold Prize in the category of Mixed Media Painting for her work Trash Rain .The project presents a powerful visual reflection on ocean pollution, using realism, contrast, and emotional storytelling to confront the fragile relationship between marine life and human activity. Through the image of a sea turtle surrounded by falling debris, Trash Rain  transforms environmental concern into a viv

At the Future Art & Design Award 2025 Winter Season, Yi Cheng Chen received the Silver Prize in the category of Commercial Architecture / Space Design for the project Future Building Model. At just 16 years old, this marks Chen’s first-ever design competition—and an early milestone that signals both ambition and promise. The award-winning work reflects a youthful yet thoughtful engagement with futuristic architecture, combining imaginative form-making with hands-on model con

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

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

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

Budnikova Elizaveta has been awarded the Diamond Prize and Best Design of the Season in the category of Packaging Design at the Future Art & Design Award UK 2025 Winter Season for her project Echoes of Flavor. At the heart of Echoes of Flavor is a clear and thoughtful ambition: to make taste visible without exaggeration. Rather than relying on decorative excess, the project translates the sensory experience of a natural fruit beverage into a visual language rooted in texture