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Students show innovative designs
RECOGNITION: The students belong to NTUST, which
produced 14 of the 100 winners at the iF design awards this year and earned top
place in the iF world rankings
Staff Writer, with CNA
Design students demonstrate a
work desk that can be folded to make a flat table with storage space inside at a
graduation show at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in
Taipei on Tuesday.
Photo: Lin Cheng-kung, Taipei Times
Students of National Taiwan University of
Science and Technology (NTUST) displayed their innovative designs on Tuesday at
a graduation show at the school, which topped the International Forum (iF)
Design Hannover¡¦s world ranking of universities.
The creative designs included a coral-shaped sofa that can be adjusted to
different positions and a tissue box that allows for more convenient access.
The graduation project show by the Department of Industrial and Commercial
Design as well as the Design Undergraduate Honors Program presented more than 70
industrial and commercial designs and animations, said Wang Wei-yao (¤ý³³ó), head
of the department.
Tsai Han-lun (½²²[ºú), who along with Tseng Yi-ju (´¿«³¾§) designed the coral-shaped
sofa Coraline, said that unlike other similar types of furniture, it can be
adjusted to three different positions to provide more comfort.
Another student, Lu Chu-yung, (¿c¹d´é) said his ¡§tissue press¡¨ design was of chain
mail material, which he chose because it was soft, weighty and beautiful.
Lu said that many tissue boxes make it hard for users to reach the tissues, but
the ¡§tissue press¡¨ automatically collapses each time a tissue is removed, which
makes it convenient to use.
Other designs featured at the show included a tumbler garbage can that prevents
garbage from spilling, a baby carriage that can be raised or lowered and a
specially designed shower seat for seniors.
NTUST produced 14 of the 100 winning designs at the iF design awards this year,
the highest number ever won by a single school at the event. This pushed NTUST
into the top place worldwide in the iF rankings.
More than 8,000 entries from 52 countries were in the competition this year.
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