Design Cult

Design Cult

Design Cult featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Supplement of Original

White veins in river stones lead to random patterns on the surfaces. The selection of certain river stones and their arrangement transforms these patterns into symbols, in form of Latin letters. This is how words and sentences are created when stones are in the right position next to each other. Language and communication arise and their signs become a supplement to what is already there.

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Turtel

Turtle Granting, Colorful Silk Granting, Safety Granting. The unsophisticated Penghu inherits the emotions of generations and collective memories over the past hundred years. The veins of the turtles are portrayed with the wave patterns, meaning that every struggling fisherman on the sea can ride the waves to come back safely. The colorful stacking and clustering represent the richness of marine resources, praying that this island and ocean can forever coexist and prosper, and hoping that through praying over the crystal ball everyone wishes can come true.

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Guo Fan

The theme of this project is Culture Of Overseas Chinese Remittance, with the close correlation between Chaozhou wood carvings and overseas Chinese remittance as the development line, researching the important Chaozhou overseas Chinese culture in Chaoshan's maritime culture, excavating the history of Chaozhou overseas Chinese who went to the Southeast Asia to make a living. This work is expressed by means of an art installation derived from art jewelry. To remember, memorialize and pay tribute to the spirit of hard work of the ancestors of Chaoshan by contemporary techniques.

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Blessing from the Sea

The white church represents the carrier of faith, and the strong wind represents the social environment. In the present society, information is becoming more and more transparent and diverse, but people's beliefs are becoming more and more vague and uncertain, and it is easier and easier to forget their original intentions and their own hearts. The wind wears away the church slowly, just like the scene of the farewell ceremony, the faith is disappearing and forgotten gradually.

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Pulse

Pulse visualizes the emotional states of immigrants when they enter a new realm. It appears to be still, yet sometimes beats harshly and sometimes expresses slowly. Migrating to a new environment has all kinds of feelings, including hope, excitement, nervousness, fear, and joy. There are many to expect during the process, difficulties to deal with, and challenges to face. These emotional waves are critical elements of a new journey, yet unable to share with new neighbors.

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Glacier Lament

Glaciers are sentinels of climate change. They are the most visible evidence of global warming today. There are four color cards in Pantone for glacier blue. However, in real glaciers, this blue color is variable and dynamic. As glaciers are disappearing, this unique blue is also disappearing. Designers sampled and blended the blue color from glaciers in Alaska and hung them in recycled glass vials. When one glacier calving happened, one color vial fell down. At the end of the exhibition, all 60 vials fell down, forming a painting on the canvas beneath.

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