A Design Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.
Discover 59 award-winning designs tagged Photography on A Design Magazine.
The extended design is based on the concept of the queen and chessboard. With the two colors black and gold, the design is to convey the sense of high-class and reshape the visual image. In addition to the metal and gold lines used in the product itself, the element of the scene is constructed to set off the war impression of the chess, and we uses the coordination of stage lighting to create smoke and light of the war.
"The Japanese Forest" is taken from a Japanese religious perspective. One of the Japanese ancient religions is Animism. Animism is a belief that non-human creatures, still life (minerals, artifacts, etc.) and invisible things also have an intention. Photography is similar to this. Masaru Eguchi is shooting something that makes feeling in the subject. Trees, grass and minerals feel the will of life. And even artifacts such as dams that left in nature for a long time feel the will. Just as you see the untouched nature, the future will see the present scenery.
Satoro is a series of photographs of a small satellite, produced for RedPeak. The images were taken before the satellite was sent into orbit, in a field where digital renderings are common. White backgrounds show the intricate details of the design, while the framing gives a sense of weight and presence. The compositions range from close-ups of small parts to wide-angle views of the complete unit. Contrasts of light and shadow reveal the patterns on the reflective metal surfaces. The photographs were made over two days in Taipei for digital and print use.
The artists' project takes advantage of the U15 building's features to create an association with natural elements present in the collective imagination. Taking advantage of the building structure and parts of it, as its colors and shapes, they try to evoke more specifics locations like the Chinese Stone Forest, the American Devil Tower, as generic natural icons like waterfalls, rivers, and rocky slopes. To grant a different interpretation in every picture, the artists explore the building through a minimalist approach, using different angles and perspectives.
Problue Annual Posters is a series of printed posters created for a diving brand. Each poster shows one model wearing both stylish city clothing and a diving suit, so the transition between daily life and diving is made visible. Gray blue is applied to the gentleman for elegance, and red is applied to the lady. Camouflage fins refer to the movement of urban life. Contrasts are arranged on purpose, such as fast and still, daily wear and diving suit, smooth and sharp. Each poster measures 420 by 594 millimeters.
Who has never given a moment listening to the waves of the sea? Waves is a work that tries to give sense to the story of himself and his inner life. In its elaboration the artist has experimented with different techniques. Starting from the picture of an ocean wave and by doing a physical formalized a visual entropy equation, simplifying and subtracting elements has got a sort of X-ray. Thanks to this close-up perspective, marta moretto tells of a world populated by a particular kind of bestiary, that probably every one of you have already met in his dreams. They identified someone?
America Heartland is a series of photography taken in a commercial aircraft at the moment of landing in American Midwest. It captures the geometric abstract patterns in snow-covered corn fields and roads from an unique perspective to attain a sensibility of the Sublime, celebrating the dynamic energies that brings vitality to America heartland.
Open Your Eyes is an art photography series that uses plastic wrap as its visual device. The shape and the material of the wrap were formed by the wind and by the resistance of the photographer. The resulting forms suggest human or animal figures, in a way similar to clouds in the sky. Each viewer sees a different character, so the series relies on personal imagination. The photographs were taken in Lower Austria in January 2022 with a high-resolution medium format camera in natural light, without flash. The digital work was completed in Vienna one month later.
Pass On is a photographic series built around the image of a message sealed inside a bottle. Each photograph is inspired by a single word, such as hope or fraternity, and represents that word through its meaning or through a real event. The same three elements, a message, a bottle and water, appear in every image, yet each theme is treated in a different way. Sets, special aquariums and specific mechanisms were built for the pictures. The digital images combine interference and image fusion, and are printed with inkjet on cotton paper.
Colors & Lines is inspired by the primary colors - Red, Yellow, Blue which used to appear in painting and design. It is a collection that blur between painting and photography, transcending the ordinary between the state of dream and reality. The strong colors visual moves the vision of the world to colors, lines, contrast, geometry and abstraction, seeing the ordinary in extraordinary.
Continue reading about Colors and Lines Fine Art Photography
Fine Art Landscape Photography is a series of large panoramic images of European landscapes and historic buildings. Each image is built from up to 120 digital photographs taken with a panoramic head and joined together with stitching software. Retouching in Adobe Photoshop adds a painterly quality to the final scene. The stitching method gives a wide and natural field of view, similar to human vision, and keeps vertical lines straight. The files are large enough to print at 60 by 90 inches or larger for homes, hotels and corporate spaces.
This is a photographic documentary of Wugang, the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company. Supported by the Russian and built in 1958, the state-owned Wugang is one of the biggest steel factories in China and once signified the industrialization and modernization of the country. However, such industry causes severe environmental pollution. Through capturing the heavily polluted Wugang campus with somber images, this project reveals the price paid and the consequence behind the glory of modernization and economic prosperity, provoking the viewers into the search of a clean and healthy environment.