16 November 2024
Guest lecturer for CAFA
Invited to lecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The Central Academy of Fine Arts or CAFA is an art academy under the direct charge of the Ministry of Education of China. The Manila Bulletin calls the school "China’s most prestigious and renowned art academy."It is considered one of the most selective schools in the country and turns away more than 90% of its applicants each year.
1 October 2024
AGI New Member
Tian Bo has been elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale (@agigraphic), become the new member of 2024. The current membership stands at 543 and collectively represents 47 countries. Believing that graphic design is fundamental to how we communicate, educate and inform, AGI members have been giving shape to the world’s many and varied messages since its inception in 1952. Membership is prestigious. Prospective members are nominated by individual members or national groups, and may then be invited to present work to the annual new member jury on the basis of quality and reputation. Members range from single practitioners to partners in global agencies. From branding to self-publishing, design writing to way-finding, image-making to animation and typography to experience design, member expertise spans all the multifarious activities described as visual communication today.
23 May 2024
Selected in C-GRAPHIC INDEX
C-GRAPHIC INDEX, edited by Tetsuya Goto, introduces 56 groups of new-generation Chinese graphic studios or designers from 15 cities in three chapters: Traditional Chinese Cultural Circle, Simplified Chinese Cultural Circle, and Overseas Chinese Cultural Circle. It shows the current state of design in the new era of the Chinese cultural circle and discusses the specificity of Chinese characters of Eastern origin in design of Western origin. TEN BUTTONS’s work is included in the book, and has been interviewed.
23 May 2024
D&AD Awards 2024
TEN BUTTONS’s work won a D&AD Graphite Pencil. Since 1962, the D&AD Pencil has represented the very best in design and advertising. Winning a Pencil remains the pinnacle of many careers and the work it celebrates inspires others to study, debate, copy and reference its excellence, as the industry’s finest and most historic of treasures.
D&AD Awards 2024
TEN BUTTONS’s work won a D&AD Graphite Pencil. Since 1962, the D&AD Pencil has represented the very best in design and advertising. Winning a Pencil remains the pinnacle of many careers and the work it celebrates inspires others to study, debate, copy and reference its excellence, as the industry’s finest and most historic of treasures.
8 May 2024
Jury for Graduate360° 2024
Tian Bo was invited to be a judge Jury for Graduate360° 2024. Graduate360° is an annual graduate design award organized by Design360° to award the 100 most outstanding and innovative graduate design projects each year. Through this benchmark, Graduate360° seeks to reflect the current ecology of design education, identify potential issues, and explore the future shape of design education.
Jury for Graduate360° 2024
Tian Bo was invited to be a judge Jury for Graduate360° 2024. Graduate360° is an annual graduate design award organized by Design360° to award the 100 most outstanding and innovative graduate design projects each year. Through this benchmark, Graduate360° seeks to reflect the current ecology of design education, identify potential issues, and explore the future shape of design education.
8 May 2024
Workshop for Design Summer 24
Design Summer is a design education project initiated by well-known designer He Jianping in Hangzhou in 2009. It is defined as a "professional teaching workshop for designers". In the past ten years, the number of invited tutors of this design education activity has reached 100. And they are the best in the industry or professionals who have long focused on design and design practice. Tian Bo was invited to be the professional tutor of this year's Deisgn Summer 2024.
Workshop for Design Summer 24
Design Summer is a design education project initiated by well-known designer He Jianping in Hangzhou in 2009. It is defined as a "professional teaching workshop for designers". In the past ten years, the number of invited tutors of this design education activity has reached 100. And they are the best in the industry or professionals who have long focused on design and design practice. Tian Bo was invited to be the professional tutor of this year's Deisgn Summer 2024.