On April 19, the annual DHU Creative Fair opened at both Yan’an Road campus and Songjiang campus. A wide variety of dizzy works of art were exhibited on large and small stalls. Vice President Liu Chunhong inspected the fair at Yan’an Road campus on the first day.
Over the past eight years, Greater Donghua Fashion Week·Creative Fair has become one of most influential campus activities in Shanghai. For participants, the creative fair means not merely “vending business,” but an arena for competition of ideas that have to be original and novel. The recruitment notice has been issued early this year, and after several rounds of screening, 65 individuals and groups of DHU and 11 groups from other colleges and universities won the “admission ticket” for the fair.
Liao Jiaxin from Fashion Design Department, together with her partners, brought their original handmade lacquer-art accessories which are environmentally friendly and have the function of anticorrosion and decoration. Coincidentally, Li Shengqing from the Department of Environment Art Design also focused on traditional crafts and environmentally friendly materials. Her embroidery works are finished on environmentally friendly composite paper materials.
The most popular stall belongs to Chen Danping from Product Design Department, for her 3D print technology enables visitors to personally experience the whole process of 3D printing.
Postgraduate Yan Ke is a “senior vendor” of the Creative Fair. Her group displayed purely manual dyeing leather that is rather unique in colors and patterns. Her stall is also among the most frequently visited ones.
It is introduced that Creative Fair not only provides a platform for teachers and students to exchange their innovative ideas, but also serves as the starting point for many students’ career. Several students earned the “First Pot of Gold” here and started their own business thereafter.
