Design Cult

Design Cult

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

 

The Book That Grew

A book with 10 tangible lessons and 10 pieces of practical advice designed to help maximize sustainability. These 10 steps enable farmers to achieve a 'perfect' 10 rotations of grass grazing per year, and produce 10 tons of grass per hectare, a truly powerful number that will massively improve the sustainability of even the most efficient farm. A book grown entirely from the very grass that Irish farmers nurture - with each page, each word, and each diagram shaped by real grass roots as they grew.

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Open Work

Open Work is a performative spatial space. It is shaped around the metaphors of consciousness and thresholds. Abstract gates and the plan created by surfaces that function like instruments turn into an experience of exchange with the visitor's touch. It intentionally emphasizes monumentality but as visitors interact with the space, this untouchability gives way to an auditory quality and flexibility. This theatrical space is not grounded anywhere and carries its roots along with it, the system is mobile. This structure is also a gentle question mark to the emerging new world right before humans.

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See the Unseen

As the Lunar New Year approaches while most embrace a visible dragon design, the team aim to create a memorable dragon experience that elevates visitors' imagination and memory of the hidden dragon. By partnering with Penique Productions for Taikoo Hui Mall’s CNY, it integrated artistic techniques and mediums to make the dragon elusive with red recyclable film to craft a glass box, this reimagined space offers a sense of elusive presence that enhances the visitor's immersion into the concept of the dragon, aiming to bring new year blessings them in the newly redefined space of the mall.

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Red House

Located in bustling tourist destinations, the city memory corridor features ancient architecture as the main theme to tell visitors about the city's history and culture through huge metal corridors and metal carved picture books. Following the development and changes of the times, many scenery in the city has disappeared. However, as the audience pass through this huge metal corridor, those pictures in the book that convey the memories of each era will awaken precious images left in the memories of former residents or visitors.

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The Allegory

Drawing inspiration from Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's iconic ceiling fresco, the designer seamlessly integrates her own painting techniques and creative context. Having observed the original work, she builds upon Giovanni's Baroque legacy, influential well into the early 17th century. The canvas effortlessly blends classic Rococo visual richness, showcasing Nagao's captivating aesthetic sense. By amalgamating Rococo elements with symbols such as baseball stadiums, consumer goods, and entertainment, she creates a visually compelling narrative, weaving together diverse beliefs.

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Infinity

Wooden wall panels come alive and wander off around the interior space. Precise geometrical joints create a fluid continuous form out of numerous pieces of pressed bent wood. The entire element, made of only two different basic shapes attached together multiple times in several orientations, comes together to create an organic like natural fluid line. Suspended from the ceiling using 1 mm thin metal wires, the wooden surface floats as far as 10.5 meters away from the wall.

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Legendary designers and their award-winning works.

Design Legends are extremely famous designers who make our World a better place with their good designs. Discover legendary designers and their innovative product designs, original art works, creative architecture, outstanding fashion designs and design strategies. Enjoy and explore original design works of award-winning designers, artists, architects, innovators and brands worldwide. Get inspired by creative designs.

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