Fine Art

Discover 200 award-winning designs tagged Fine Art on A Design Magazine.

Brand: Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan Design Type: Art Installation Category: Fine Art

Hitobito

Hitobito is an art installation created for the lantern festival held in Taipei City in 2023. The structure draws inspiration from the Chinese character for a person, formed by two members supporting each other. Two small entrances merge into one larger space, where a projector at the center casts motion graphics onto the ground. The manually bent steel pipe frame is clad with bamboo dowels one centimeter wide, joining traditional Asian weaving with an industrial structure. The installation measures 9.8 meters wide, 7.8 meters deep and 3.5 meters high.

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Brand: Mark Melnikov Design Type: Film Set Category: Fine Art

Rostrus

Today visual effects for films are primarily created using computer technologies. Despite that, Rostrus was made as a real-life film set with an opportunity for 360 degree shooting. The team followed the traditional approach in order to avoid discordance between actors and digital environment. The model is 1:1000 scale and finely detailed, which allows to shoot from a distance of up to 2 centimeters to the surface.

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Brand: Responsive Spaces Design Type: Permanent Media Installation Category: Fine Art

Top of Austria

The DC Tower 1 is Austria's highest building and provides an outstanding welcome gesture. A webcam at the roof continuously collects photos, over time creating an image-pool. These captured moments are arranged in real-time into vivid time-slice montages. It's all about cherishing every single moment. Sensors deliver position tracking, enabling people to influence the layouts. The LED wall in the foyer celebrates both: the location and every moment at it. Additionally it provides dialogue between the people and the building itself through interactivity.

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Brand: Kuo Kuo-Hsiang Design Type: Public Art Category: Fine Art

Dancing With Nature

The Infinity Symbol conveys the concept of endlessness and greatness. "Dancing With Nature" is a public art with wind structure, Pulsating with the breath of nature, the beautiful flowing curves overlap in the space. It was constructed with three sets of Infinity Symbol are transformed and intertwined with the intention of expressing the vitality and energy of National Museum of Natural Science. Its smooth and vivid shapes highlight the infinite freedom of scientific exploration, symbolizing the growth of scientific knowledge without limitation and convey an atmosphere that is fresh and rejuvenating!

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Brand: Derya Geylani Vuruşan Design Type: Installation Category: Fine Art

Hunger Games

Hunger Games is an art installation about excessive consumption, food waste, hunger and thirst. The work is composed of porcelain plates, glasses and metal cutlery from various countries, suspended from the ceiling so that the pieces appear to fly. Forms of spaghetti, vegetables and fruit, made of blown transparent glass, are placed inside the porcelain and the cutlery. Giant metal cutlery sculptures stand at the focal point of the arrangement. About 250 separate pieces were drilled and hung one by one with fishing line.

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Brand: Mohamad ali Vadood Design Type: Vessel Category: Fine Art

One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights is a decorative wooden vessel made with a method called Irregular Segmenting. Leftover wood cuts of different shapes and sizes are sorted by complementary colors and joined into small sheets. The small sheets are then combined into larger sheets. Discs are cut from the sheets, glued and fixed together, and the whole volume is wood-turned. The vessel is 40 cm in height and 20 cm in diameter, and is accompanied by two cups. The design gives a new use to wood scraps that are usually discarded.

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Brand: Maheen Sana Design Type: Digital Painting Category: Fine Art

Malware

Made entirely digitally using Photoshop and a graphics tablet, Malware displays the result of the dissolution of a relationship. The contrast in the painting is based on the concept of duality in nature, of the contrast between happiness and sorrow. The use of black and white, chaotic foreground and calm background, hardness and softness, all create a romantic, yet somber mood and express the melancholy one is left with following a breakup.

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Brand: Liu Siyu Design Type: Tea Cup Category: Fine Art

Yunlai

Yunlai cup is a handmade product from a hot glass workshop in Guangzhou, China. Yunlai in Chinese means clouds slowly rising. The design comes from the research of combining extra-thick glass-frit and high temperature sandblasting technology with the cloud space from traditional landscape painting. The designer also considered ergonomics in streamlined design, organically combining natural contact and holding angle of palm.

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Brand: Hsin Lee Design Type: Kinetic Light Sculpture Category: Fine Art

Core

Core is a kinetic light sculpture shaped like a pine cone. Core was made for Kawabata Intcraft, an 84-year-old Japanese-style police office in Taipei. The sculpture is formed of 87 brass leaves that slowly open and close through an inner mechanism. The calm movement resembles breathing and gives the historic building a sense of life. Core hangs from a high ceiling above a spiral staircase, so visitors see the sculpture from changing angles while climbing the stairs. The projected light shifts with each cycle.

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Brand: Sini Majuri Design Type: Sculpture Category: Fine Art

Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia is a glass sculpture made from recycled and industrial waste glass. The material would otherwise end up in landfill, and instead it is melted and reshaped into a new form. Each piece is mouth blown studio glass, shaped by hand. Rough and organic surfaces reflect Scandinavian aesthetics and light. Every glass dome is slightly illuminated, and the ice like surfaces melt together into a landscape like installation. The sculpture measures 150 by 50 by 30 centimeters. The intent is a poetic interpretation of the contrast between recycled and valuable material.

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Brand: IDA Technology Co., Ltd. Design Type: Lighting Category: Fine Art

Garden

Worry-free Garden is a light installation created for a public light festival in Penghu, Taiwan. The installation shows an underwater scene of corals, seagrass and barnacles. Each form is made with three dimensional cotton knitting. Controlled LED lighting changes in colour and rhythm, so the corals appear in many tones. The work measures 680 by 390 by 290 centimetres. The sculptures act as focal points of the site and are used as photography spots by visitors. The aim is to present the rich ecology of the ocean.

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Brand: Hao Li Design Type: illustration Category: Fine Art

Athletic

Athletic is a series of sports-themed illustrations created with digital painting software. Each image reduces a complex athletic movement to simple lines and shapes. The most representative pose of each sport was selected after a wide study of reference images. Custom brushes and textures were developed to recall the surface of traditional painting on paper. Each original artwork measures 1920 by 1920 pixels at 72 dpi. The series aims to show the beauty and the energy held within a single moment of motion.

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