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Printing Paper with Paper: Paper Parade Wins Grand Award at the DFA Design for Asia Awards 2026

Tokyo design studio Paper Parade asked an obvious question: why are we melting metals just to put ink on paper, when we could just use... paper?

On October 9, 2026, the winners of the 19th annual Shachihata New Product Design Competition (SNDC) were officially unveiled in Tokyo, Japan.