Fine Art

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Brand: Egemen Kemal Vurusan Design Type: Art Installation Category: Fine Art

Original by Nature

Original by Nature is an art installation that turns discarded glass bottles into flowing sculptural forms. The bottles are reshaped by heat and molds through advanced upcycling methods. Each glass form holds a hydroponic system, so plants grow inside the installation. Sensor-controlled irrigation supplies water to every module, and violet ultraviolet lights at the back support plant growth. The main modular unit measures 5000 mm in width, 2000 mm in depth and 3500 mm in height. The work joins art, nature and technology to make sustainability visible.

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Brand: Andorka Timea Design Type: poster series Category: Fine Art

Lockdown Memories

During the pandemic, people read a lot at home. While scientists and artists worked to change the way people thought about the future. Timea Andorka's series of five posters was inspired by these ideas and discoveries. The posters are each based on a specially illuminated, unique piece of her book art that references these ideas. They are complete with short quotes on climate change, the Blm movement, the discovery of Mars, the coronavirus crisis and the future of humanity. In the posters, recycled books symbolize both classical knowledge and the need to reinterpret outdated knowledge.

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Brand: Egemen Kemal Vurusan Design Type: Glass Sculpture Series Category: Fine Art

Circus

Circus is a series of glass sculptures inspired by circus performers. The forms are made from high-grade soda-lime glass using hot glass blowing and shaping techniques. Bold, mismatched colors and exaggerated asymmetrical shapes reflect the disorder of modern urban life. The ball and legs of each sculpture are joined by hot bonding, and thermal annealing stabilizes the final form. Each piece is handcrafted with precision for balance and stability. Circus is made for observation, and its appearance changes with ambient light and viewing angle.

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Brand: Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato Design Type: Whole Plastic Architecture Category: Fine Art

Aqua Scape the Orangery Version

This is the second version of Aqua scape. The first-version had completed as the first prototype of Whole Plastic Architecture. Aqua scape was a soft and boneless architecture. Aqua-scape The Orangery version has a double skin system although the first version was a single skin. If it is called that the first-version was boneless like a jellyfish, it is been able to say the Orangery version is like a small shrimp because it is wrapped by transparent soft shell. The first-version of Aqua scape in Japan 2006 was floating on the water, however this is floating on the grass.

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Brand: Atsushi Kobayashi Design Type: Digital Installation Category: Fine Art

Germination

Germination is an immersive art installation that combines an industrial robot arm, lighting and plants. The robot arm is choreographed as a sprout that germinates from the ground after a period of dormancy. LED strips form the roots and provide light that appears as nourishment. A light ball is mounted at the top of the arm and is controlled as if alive. Projection mapping is applied to the stage, which is composed of artifacts and natural elements. The three minute show ends as rays of sunlight shine from clouds and the sprout blooms.

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Brand: Ronen Shilo Design Type: Philosophical Art Category: Fine Art

Motiva

Motiva is philosophical art on your wall. A patented design concept that brings together inspiring quotes with beautiful artwork to create a new medium for expression. In a process called “visual compression”, Motiva's proprietary algorithm identifies common words within a set of quotes and overlaps them in a way that creates a unique letter grid. This unique grid is matched with striking artwork, printed on fine paper, and harnessed in a wooden frame. As Motiva hangs on your wall, it slowly reveals the quotes hidden within.

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Brand: Fan Bai Design Type: Art Category: Fine Art

Beltman

Beltman has a very recognizable style of composition, it has a human form, but his joints are mechanical, as if dominated. He has strong emotions and a personality. The complex lines are intertwined from the center, incredibly suffocating, and gradually diverge and spread to the whole body, becoming easy and straightforward. Its full-body visual presentation conveys a straightforward concept, control. The designer tries to create an aesthetic where stories can be in simplicity, and the order can be in complexity.

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Brand: Jung-Mei Wou Design Type: Sculpture Installation Category: Fine Art

Aeon

This work is inspired by the fable at the beginning of the first chapter of Zhuangzi's philosophy, A Happy Excursion. This sculpture is a reflection of the real world in microcosm and explores the nature of time and space, reality and fantasy, instant and eternity, which appear to be opposites but are at the same time interdependent symbiotic phenomena.

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Brand: Ji Qi Design Type: Biodegradable Chair Category: Fine Art

Taboo

Inspired by the human female pelvis, the taboo chair is made of a special organic degradable no-fire clay, which is based on the traditional Chinese rammed earth construction concept, using topology optimization algorithms to improve the overall structure to ensure that it can withstand 1000 Nm of downforce while maintaining the bionic structure.The material used in the chair was invented to respond to the current call for energy saving and emission reduction, and can be degraded to organic fertilizer in landfills under suitable conditions.

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Brand: Lai Jiebin Design Type: Public Art Category: Fine Art

Evolution

The design language of the sculpture is peaceful, with both the simplicity of the straight line and the unique softness and movement of the curve itself. It represents the dynamic and continuous nature of the thinking, contains everything, and has no boundary between space and time, just like the universe; The line does not fill the whole surface, and the space left in the middle is like a door left behind. The door is also not round, and there are increases and decreases, creating evolution.

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Brand: MINJU KANG Design Type: Bench Category: Fine Art

Knotted

Knotted is a bench designed as public furniture for indoor and outdoor spaces. The form is tied together like a ribbon to suggest connection and circulation. Discarded wire conduit pipe is bent by hand, bound with cable ties and fixed to structural stainless steel pipe legs. The complete structure is solid and stable, and the finish is unified in matte black. The pipe surface gives a soft impression, and the shape allows several sitting postures. Knotted reflects the idea of generational integration, where diverse lives are joined as one.

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

Turtel

Turtle Comes, Luck Comes is an interactive light installation shaped as a sea turtle. The sculpture is made of epoxy resin and metal and measures 720 by 1000 by 400 centimeters. The patterns of the shell are drawn from wave forms, a reference to fishermen returning safely from the sea. A crystal ball is placed beside the turtle. When hands are held near the crystal ball, sensors are triggered and the light in the body and the eyes of the turtle changes. The work reflects a wish for good luck, blessing and calm.

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