Syn
Syn Universal Calendar by Jia Sheng Chen is a winner of the 2025 Silver A' Design Award in Homeware Design.
Syn is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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Syn is an innovative calendar/ monthly planner featuring a unique layout for various and universal time intervals. It is designed as a mechanical, three dimensional planner that assists people in organizing tasks and events without using a digital application. Inspired by the philosophy of Lo Tek Design, it optimizes the use of a physical calendar, providing more detailed information. The structure design adapted the pattern of time, making it universal to any month and day. It can assist in tracking and recording events over a comfortable length of time.
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Syn by Jia Sheng Chen
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Homeware Design Award Winner in 2025.
Silver Winner
Syn Universal Calendar
Syn is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Syn is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Syn is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
Winner Designer
Jia Sheng Chen
Johnny Jiasheng Chen is a Los Angeles-based designer/artist. He is recognized for his innovative and cross-disciplinary practices in design and art. He is passionate about seeking new experiences and unique alternatives, exploring new perspectives on materials, cultures, humanity, and speculative futures, and is the founder of the Forenext Design Studio.
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Forenext Design
Forenext is an innovative design studio that focuses on creating new experiences and providing creative solutions via different design media. We conduct projects ranging from cultural and creative design to visionary avant-garde design. We are a group of multidisciplinary designers and researchers who utilize design as a medium to identify present opportunities and speculate on future design.
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