Design Cult

Design Cult

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

 

Steady Power Wire Art

When uncertainty is the only certain thing on this land, Taya Electric Wire and Cable supported everyday life like strong tree roots, sending steady powers and electricity to all corners of the country. No matter sunny or rainy, it was always there to connect everyone's life. For the Taya Group 65th anniversary linear exhibition, Inception invites artist Zxin Li to outline the huge tree that symbolizes the Taya Group with Taya's own copper wires, telling a narrative of stable everyday life with the usually hidden wires that transfer the power and electricity.

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Crowd Gathering of Dots

With the specially made bronze and gold delicate feet holding up the ceramic sphere, the light projection presents a rich and three dimensional light and shadow changes, gathering on the main wall of the meeting area, leading thousands of visitors. This work aims to express the flow and spatial tension between the cells of the group, using the black glazed cells on the handmade ceramic spheres to translate the different, but different, tourists who come to the smoke wave because they long for the warmth of their stay.

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Boat

Boat is an innovative interactive toy that provides users with novel and interesting interactive experiences through interactive feedback on the perception of things around it. It offers more possibilities for products to interact with people and the environment. The Boat morphology fused the fish bones with the outline of the boat. The crawling law of arthropods is used, so that the movement mode of the product has more vitality and rhythm sense. Using 3D printing technology, the complex structures can be directly formed.

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Tape Art

In 2019, a visual party of lines, color chunks, and fluorescence sparked Taipei. It was the Tape That Art Exhibition organized by FunDesign.tv and Tape That Collective. A variety of projects with unusual ideas and techniques were presented in 8 tape art installations and exhibited over 40 tape paintings, together with videos of the artists’ work in the past. They also added brilliant sounds and light to make the event an immersive art milieu and materials they applied included cloth tapes, duct tapes, paper tapes, packaging tales, plastic tapes, and foils.

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KT 5G

Ushering in the commercialization of 5G service, Designtist installed sculptures that embodied KT 5G technology in collaboration with the pop art designer duo Craig & Karl. The main features of 5G service (ultra-high speed, ultra-low latency, hyper connectivity) were shaped into dynamic design, vivid colors and patterns. 5G technology connecting the world was modernly reinterpreted with drones and autonomous driving, and various arrow images expressed the connectivity, speed, and data flow.

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Black Star

The concept of the design is based on the transformation of wood species that have no grain or color into an object vessel pleasing to the eye and additionally achieving an interesting haptic feeling. The design object is handcrafted, beginning with woodturning for forming the outside and hollowing the inside of the object. Drilling and forming the holes into the outer surface comes next, as well as adding color stain. The usage of a pyrographic pen brings further embellishment onto the piece. Finally the object is charred black, resulting in a soft and warm touch, as well as adding contrast.

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