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平山 [ píngshān ] 

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An old saying from Confucius,

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones”

A thousand miles journey starts with one step. If you remove one stone from the mountain at a time, you will eventually move the whole mountain itself. Anything big or anyone successful needs to begin with the basics.

“一二十3” = 12103

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Life is about meaning.

Viktor Frankl, a writer and holocaust survivor once said, ‘we can discover this meaning of life in three different ways: by creating a work or doing a deed; by experiencing something or encountering someone; and by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.’ Artists, designers, and architects find and impart meaning through all three ways and they all share the same language of design. 

Everybody, everything, everywhere, everyday needs design. Design can be borderless and we refuse to be constrained by a single discipline or defined way of working.

We work together as a community with a common goal, drawing on and respecting our collective knowledge to create enduring value. We feel performance should be fundamental to design – not an afterthought. To create the self is to forget the self. Having a clear ‘why’ we can face all the ‘how’ of life. That’s 12103 Design Studio’s job.

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