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Fine Art

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

Forest Heart Wood Picture

Forest Heart

Forest Heart is a marquetry wall artwork that depicts a bird. The image is built from 47 wood pieces, each cut at a defined angle to reveal natural grain patterns. The woods include haloxylon, barberry, fig, tree of heaven, keykom maple, jujube, European ash and wenge. All colors, lines and textures come from the wood itself, without added color. The sheets are 4 mm thick, the panel measures 35 by 60 cm and the weight is 700 grams. The work follows a method named Naqshbandi, which traces and joins natural patterns to form one complete image.

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Splash Illustration

Splash

"Splash" is personal drawing project made by Maria Bradovkova, Her goal was to challenge her creativity and abstract thinking. She used traditional technique — colored ink on paper. Random splash of ink was a starting point and inspiration for each illustration. She observed irregular shape of watercolor until she saw a hint of a figure in it. With linear drawing she added details and made the character to stand out. Abstract shape of stain she turned into figurative image. Each drawing shows different human or animalistic characters in sentimental mood.

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Artificial Topography Installation

Artificial Topography

Big Furniture Like a Cave This is the award-winning project won the Grand Prize of Art in Container International Competition. My idea is to hollow out the volume inside a container in order to build amorphous space like a cave. It is made of only plastic material. About 1000 sheets of the soft plastic material of 10-mm thickness were cut down in contour line form and were laminated like stratum. This is not only art but also big furniture. Because all the portions are soft like a sofa, and person who enter into this space can relax by finding the place suitable for the form of its own body.

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Prince John Book Illustration

Prince John

It is made with paints on the toned paper, the final touch – on the graphic tablet. The designer combined figural imagery which illustrates the part of the text with frise compositions on the top and at the bottom, which details are psychologically connected with a figural image and make the illustration more expressive. Ornaments accentuate the horizontal rhythm of the illustration and bring to life the medieval atmosphere. The original text and fragments of other illustrations are below.

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Into the Water Series of artworks

Into the Water

This series surprises the viewer with a mysterious aquatic environment where expressive figures of great proportions emerge, victims of fate. The artist explores the possibilities of transparency and blur, establishing different levels of perception by bringing depth to the pieces. All of this, thanks to a planned minimalist combination of materials, mainly paper and polypropylene. Thus emerges a suggestive conceptual work with a symbolic and surreal personality.

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A Dream tabletop lighting installation

A Dream

The designer considers a dream is weightless and transparent. It can hardly be caught, and yet it is so realistic. He designs this installation as a way to visualize the metaphor of the surrealistic nature in a dream. Each curved member contributes to a part of a propagating dream. He places entire design setting on a transparent base with a light source projects upward to make it feel weightless like floating in the air.

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Follow Me Sculptural Vase

Follow Me

Follow Me is a sculptural vase designed to support the arrangement of cut flowers. The form is inspired by the peacock, with an upright body and a pair of wings. The vase is made of three pieces, including two detachable wing pieces that are perforated in different patterns. The semi open form allows air circulation around the stems and lets water be added daily without disturbing the arrangement. The user selects one wing piece, anchors it to the body and follows the openings to create a pattern. The intent is to extend the life of cut flowers.

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Blessed Child rings

Blessed Child

The Blessed Child rings are a promise for love: Baby Jamie cuddles up to the inside of the ring and trusts its life to the hands of the mother. The baby is laid on its back sucking its thumb. It is the mental vision of her unborn child that every pregnant woman has in her mind. The ring symbolises the unconditional mutual bond of trust between infant and mother and pays homage to this trust. Baby Sam is on top of the world, safe, healthy and happy. The wearer carries the baby with pride, presenting herself as a confident mother. The ring is a band saying: „Trust me, you are loved!"

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