DEGREE SHOWS 2025

TAKE A LOOK AT THE WINNING ENTRIES IN EACH OF THE 7 CATEGORIES AT DEGREE SHOWS 2025

TEXT: NATHATAI TANGCHADAKORN
PHOTO: PIBHU DEVAKUL NA AYUDHYA EXCEPT AS NOTED

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On 10 May 2026, art4d held the final round and award ceremony of Degree Shows, its thesis competition for design students from across Thailand, at Cloud 11. Supported by Modernform, Cloud 11, and Adot.maison as the main sponsors, this year’s programme saw shortlisted projects progress through the initial selection and online presentation rounds before arriving at a final list of five finalists in each of the seven disciplines: Architecture Design, Interior Design, Product Design, Graphic Design, Animation & Motion Design, Fashion Design, and Jewelry Design.

Fashion Show at Cloud 11 for Fashion Design and Jewelry Design

Beyond selecting the ‘Best of’ winners in each category, the final round also determined the programme’s highest distinction, ‘Best of the Show’ award, through votes cast by an 18-member jury. Before revealing which project ultimately claimed the top prize, art4d invites readers to take a closer look at the winning works, each representing the most compelling achievement within its field, and perhaps to make their own predictions along the way.

Architecture Design
Maen Sri Creative and Design Center by Kittipon Pattamamongkolchai
Chulalongkorn University

In contemporary Bangkok, vacant urban land is increasingly scarce, while the city’s residents have little desire to live within an even more densely built environment. Against this backdrop, Kittipon proposes an architectural approach grounded in the idea of ‘New Design in Old Context,’ leading to an exploration of adaptive reuse architecture as a way to unlock value from abandoned structures. Taking the former Maen Sri Waterworks Office as the site, the project reimagines the complex as the Maen Sri Creative and Design Center. Existing office buildings, the old waterworks facilities, and water storage tanks are repurposed as architectural instruments for reviving and activating the district’s creative economy. Through programmes that encourage public participation, creative expression, and exchange, the project considers how place, asset, and people can be brought together within an architectural framework capable of generating new vitality and urban connection.

Kittipon Pattamamongkolchai, Best of Architecture Design

Interior Design
HAY-HEAL, THE CITY LIFE HAPPY CORNER by Thongsai Kwan-on
Chulalongkorn University

HAY-HEAL proposes the interior adaptation of Tobacco Factory Building 5 into a public space dedicated to mental wellbeing. Rather than framing restoration through religion or clinical care, the project approaches emotional health through design, drawing on behavioural analysis, public policy, government-led wellbeing strategies, and the inherent potential of the site itself. Drawing on the site’s proximity to the forested landscape of Benjakitti Park and the large-scale structure of the existing building, the project introduces three main public zones: HINT, HUDDLE, and HUSH. Each carries its own program and spatial character, while variations in architectural scale, rhythm, and the composition of elements allow the interior to respond to different modes of use and to the way the space is felt and experienced.

Thongsai Kwan-on, Best of Interior Design

Product Design
Packaging and Graphic Design for Worshipping Sacred Objects under S&P Syndicate Public Company Limited by Natacha Pimjaipong
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang

‘How does one ask for a blessing and see it fulfilled?’ Beyond the act of making a vow, the proper way to pay respect to each sacred figure is often part of the conversation exchanged within communities centered on spiritual belief. This became the point of departure for ‘Mutelu Sister,’ a new brand under S&P, for which Natcha designed packaging specifically for worship-related products. The brand’s products are divided into two formats: worship sets to be sold at S&P stores, and smaller individual items for general retail channels, from ritual sweets to food offerings such as khanom ko, laddu modak, and Jae Chai. What distinguishes the worship sets is that each package can be unfolded into a layout plan for arranging the offerings, accompanied by a guide. The series includes sets for worshipping the God of Fortune, seeking love through Lakshmi, praying for success through Ganesha, and celebrating the Moon Festival.

Natacha Pimjaipong, Best of Product Design (online)

Graphic Design
The ‘Lim’s recipe (林食物)’ book series by Narakorn Kasemsuttikul
Bangkok University

The ‘Lim’s recipe (林食物)’ book series began as a way to safeguard a family’s culinary memory, preserving the stories and recipes that might otherwise fade with time. Yet the project reaches beyond the archive of dishes themselves, touching on the relationships that give those flavors meaning. When the person who once cooked for us is no longer there, a familiar taste can disappear with them. The book is structured around six chapters: Becoming ‘Lim,’ Menus from Across the Seas, Ordinary Days Made Extraordinary, Gathering Festivals, Guided by Faith, and Extended Family. Family members’ personalities are translated into graphic forms and illustrations, developed from Narakorn’s method of talking, sorting, and experimenting. Accompanying the book is From Lim to You, a notebook that extends the gesture outward, inviting readers to begin tracing their own family memories in the same spirit.

Narakorn Kasemsuttikul, Best of Graphic Design

Animation & Motion Design
Relieve by Thayakorn Chintaveerapant
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

Relieve takes its Thai title from a phrase that suggests the ‘release of suffering,’ while also alluding to the notions of sin and merit surrounding the practice of releasing animals at temples, questioning whether such acts are truly rooted in compassion or simply serve as a form of self-consolation, carried out without regard for their consequences. The story centers on only two characters: a catfish and a merit-maker. Rather than focusing on the human act of making merit, the narrative follows the fish as it descends into an underwater world and encounters an unfamiliar environment. Within its brief running time, the film’s visual language is especially striking in the way color is used to move fluidly with the tone of the story, from palettes that suggest contradiction, to the initial calm of the underwater setting, and eventually to a sense of suffocating decay that seems almost perceptible beyond the screen. The work was created using Procreate and Procreate Dreams.

Thayakorn Chintaveerapant, Best of Animation & Motion Design (online)

Fashion Design
C.RETRICBLUE by Jaruwan Khongsaengngam
Bangkok University

The electric-blue tarantula, Chilobrachys natanicharum, is a newly discovered spider species found in Thailand’s mangrove forests. Its most distinctive feature is the iridescent blue sheen that appears on its legs when illuminated by light. Taking this species as a point of departure, Jaruwan translates the segmented structure of its body and the reflective qualities responsible for its shifting color into a fashion collection. The spider’s jointed anatomy and chitin structure are adapted into patterns that create volume on their own, without the need for internal support. Meanwhile, the arrangement of its hairs, which produces its iridescent blue appearance, is reinterpreted through textile details developed by machine stitching, fabric assembly, laser cutting, and knitting. These techniques come together in the five final looks of C.RETRICBLUE.

Jaruwan Khongsaengngam, Best of Fashion Design

Jewelry Design
Wabi-Sabi by Worakamol Kitbanthao
Silpakorn University

Mother-of-pearl inlay is among the refined decorative arts within Thailand’s lacquerware tradition, demanding both meticulous precision and a high degree of craftsmanship. It is a practice that leaves little room for visible flaws or error. Yet the shell fragments left through after the processes of cutting and shaping often have no further use. Curved, rough in texture, or too thick or thin to be used in conventional work, these remnants became the starting point for Worakamol’s project. Drawing on the philosophy of Wabi-Sabi, which recognizes another form of beauty in what is imperfect and transient, the work gives physical expression to three guiding principles: simplicity, imperfection, and the truth of nature. These concepts are explored through wax-filling techniques, metal piercing, and silicone casting, before moving into experiments that consider how fragments of shell might be placed on the body as jewelry without disrupting  the body’s natural movement.

Worakamol Kitbanthao, Best of Jewelry Design

The highest distinction of Degree Shows 2025, ‘Best of the Show’ award, goes to ‘Lim’s recipe (林食物)’ book series by Narakorn Kasemsuttikul. In addition to the special cash prize, Degree Shows 2025 also received generous support from Atichai Poshyanonda, Education Manager at DP Education, who awarded a 50% scholarship for a master’s degree program at Domus Academy, as well as a Summer Course 2027 scholarship at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), in Italy.

(left to right) Narongchai Khaophong (Modernform Design Center), Paulie Sirisant (Cloud 11), Narakorn Kasemsuttikul (Best of the Show 2025), Atichai Poshyanonda (DP Education), Pratarn Teeratada, and Pannathorn Lorattawut (adot°)

Photo: Worapas Dusadeewijai

For students graduating in the 2026 academic year, stay tuned for updates on Degree Shows 2026 through the art4d official Facebook page!