City Ferry by XY Wang and XF Song, China

2004: China.

Scale Model and Illustrations on Display at Michelin Challenge Design™

Biography:

Xiaoye Wang, 22, is currently studying design at Tongji University, Shanghai, China in hopes of attaining her Bachelor Degree.

In addition to having two designs selected for the 2004 Michelin Challenge Design, Xiaoye designed a tableware project named ‘flaying saucer’, which was one of the 10 tableware projects selected by design students of Tongji University for PAOLA which attended the Milan International Furniture Exhibition on April 9, 2003. She also produced a project titled “Air Pizza”, which was the package design for Jinli DVD Container competition. It won the first prize of the competition in October 2003.

She has also participated in other design competitions including, interior design of Ziguang Garden of CSCEC, environmental design to Taicang living area and the conceptual layout of the Buick exhibition center of S.H. GM to name a few.

Xiaofeng Song, 23, is currently studying design at Tongji University, Shanghai, China in hopes of attaining his Bachelor Degree.

In addition to having two designs selected for the 2004 Michelin Challenge Design, Xiaofeng participated in a project named “Air Pizza”, which was the package design for Jinli DVD Container competition. It won the first prize of the competition in October 2003. He also won the second prize in the CI design of the 2001 Shanghai International Industrial Fair.

He has also participated in other design competitions including, interior design of Ziguang Garden of CSCEC, environmental design to Taicang living area and the conceptual layout of the Buick exhibition center of S.H. GM and the interior design of Police center for Jiaozhou, China.

Description:

Bicycle as an important communication vehicle to people in China have taken the advantage in short distance transportation. Although bus can solve the problem of long distance transportation, but most of the case the bus stop is not the final destination for many passenger.  If the two traffic methods lines above can be conformed. It can bring more convenient to the citizen in China. So the concept named “City Ferry” is brought out. It is a bus that can carry bicycle in a special way. The environmental protection fuel, GPS system and R.C (remote-control) tech are used in the concept bus . So it will surely be a revolution of the city public transportation in China.