Visual Design
Visual design approaches to architecture, urbanism, and spatial communication projects.
Beyond Recognition: How Danting Li Contributes to the Design Industry Through International Judging
Danting Li brings her multidisciplinary design expertise to international judging, contributing thoughtful perspectives on creativity, innovation, and excellence across design, technology, and business.
Blueprint of a Letterform: Artack Regular and the Architecture of Type
Exploring the shared language of structure, space, and functionality through Danting Li’s award-winning Artack Regular typeface.
Design Systems for Architects: What Graphic Designers Know That Architects Can Borrow
Exploring how the systems-thinking behind graphic design can help architects create more coherent, adaptable, and human-centered built environments.
The Power of Negative Space: What Screen Margins Teach Us About Light, Void, and Breathing Room in Buildings
How negative space, from screen margins to architectural voids, creates room for light, clarity, movement, and reflection.
Wayfinding as Brand: How Digital-Native Identity Systems Change Spatial Signage
How digital-native brands are transforming wayfinding from functional signage into cohesive systems of identity, navigation, and experience.
Translating Intangible Heritage into Contemporary Product Design
How a contemporary blind-box gift transforms sugar painting, ancient Chinese scripts, and cultural storytelling into an interactive product experience that brings intangible heritage into everyday life.
Peak Resilient Parking: Rethinking Manhattan's Waterfront as a Living System
A flood-resilient corridor on the East River transforms infrastructure into terraced parks, civic space, and ecological habitat.
Bab Al-Atlal: Weaving War Debris into a Living Archive for Aleppo
A shortlisted proposal transforms the ruins of Aleppo's Grand Serail into a hybrid landscape where crushed stone, poetry, and collective grief become archi
Longa-polis: Diagnosing the City as a Body Under Duress
A speculative megastructure treats late-stage capitalism as a spatial pathogen, proposing an immune response built from steel, ritual, and confrontation.
The CityGate: A Vertical City Above Moscow
A supertall hybrid tower stacking an airport, offices, shops, co-living, transit, and housing into a single structure on the Moscow River.
More Than a Channel: An Edinburgh Flood Landscape That Changes Its Use With the Seasons
A runner-up at UnIATA '19, Tianyi Jiang's wetland park for Edinburgh's South East Wedge turns flood water into a park that changes with every season.
Launch pad from the moon: Journey into the unknown
That is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. (Neil Armstrong)
