Master of Design 2026

Graduating Mid-Year Showcase

Hanze Wang

Hanze Wang is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer based in Melbourne. Trained in industrial design, his practice moves between product design, brand systems and designed experiences. His work begins with close observation of everyday life, turning small behaviours, pressures and rituals into visual, material and spatial forms. Drawn to personal wellbeing, dignified care and cultural life, he creates brands, products and systems that feel clear, tactile and emotionally resonant. His graduation project, Hundred fold, Thousand bend, extends this approach into disaster response, translating ordinary pressure into a participatory rehearsal of resilience.
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Hanze Wang, Promotional Poster

Promotional poster for Hundred fold, Thousand bend, a participatory exhibition that turns everyday psychological pressure into a rehearsal for earthquake preparedness. Through paired imagery, restrained typography and the line “Fold your thoughts. Bend your body.”, the poster introduces the project’s central language of folding, bending and resilience before visitors enter the exhibition.

Hanze Wang, Exhibition Flyer and Programme

A printed flyer and programme for Hundred fold, Thousand bend. The piece turns exhibition information into a portable paper object, combining project introduction, workshop details, schedule and venue information. Rather than acting only as promotion, it extends the project’s method: communication becomes something visitors can hold, read, fold and carry with them.

Hanze Wang, On-site Paper Materials

Selected paper-based materials from the on-site participatory system, including speculative medical certificates, a mental health spectrum bookmark, a feelings menu, response cards and visual prompts. Together, they guide visitors from recognising everyday psychological pressure, to reading emotions as possible needs, to reframing thoughts and rehearsing simple body-first responses.

Hanze Wang, On-site Paper Materials

Selected paper-based materials from the on-site participatory system, including speculative medical certificates, a mental health spectrum bookmark, a feelings menu, response cards and visual prompts. Together, they guide visitors from recognising everyday psychological pressure, to reading emotions as possible needs, to reframing thoughts and rehearsing simple body-first responses.

Hanze Wang, Epoché Packaging Collection

Developed as an extension of my Monash undergraduate graduation project epoché, this series of handcrafted poplar wood containers was designed as bespoke packaging for its sensory objects. Each box is shaped around a specific object, using varied depths, footprints and internal geometries to hold the work without overpowering it. Minimal engraving, natural grain and quiet proportions turn containment into part of the perceptual encounter.

Hanze Wang, Nest Packaging System

Nest is one piece within the Epoché Packaging Collection, framing containment as a slow sensory experience. Rather than acting as a passive wrapper, the box creates a moment of reveal through material warmth, shadow and internal fit. Its restrained construction supports the object inside while preserving a sense of care, stillness and anticipation, aligning packaging with tactile and emotionally resonant design.

Hanze Wang, where am I

where am I is a bilingual zine exploring cultural estrangement through black-and-white photography, poetic sequencing and emotive typography. Working with photographs by Carmen, the project translates the quiet dislocation of arriving in Melbourne into an intimate printed object. English and Chinese coexist across the pages, not as direct translation, but as shared emotional registers that hold uncertainty, memory and in-between states.