Design Cult

Design Cult

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

 

Missing Julie

This design presents a frame installation and an interface between indoors and outdoors, or lights and shadows. It delivers an expression while people looking out of a frame to wait for someone to return. Various types and sizes of glass spheres are used as a symbol of wishes and tears to imply the emotion that possible hides inside. The steel frame and boxes define the boundary of emotion. The emotion given by a person can be different from the way it is perceived just like the images in the spheres are upside down.

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Falling Water

The Falling Water is a set of interactive installations allowing users to change running path around a cube or cubes. The combination of cubes and beaded stream present a contrast of static object and dynamic water flow. The stream can be pulled to see beads running or just put on a table as a scene of frozen water. Beads are also considered as wishes people make every day. Wishes should be chained and running forever as a waterfall.

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CityWood

CityWood is a wooden map artwork designed by an architect Hubert Roguski. It is a three dimensional design that combines modern technology with the beauty of wood and craftsmanship. Created from a city data, city streets, water and landscape are represented by separate wooden layers to create depth of the design. Each layer is precisely cut using laser technology, polished with sand paper to provide smooth clean surface and assembled by hand with great attention to the crafting process. Each map has its own personality due to the individual grain of the wood.

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Super String

The sculpture is inspired by one of the grand theories of science, the superstrings. It theorises that every particle that makes this universe is made of tiny vibrating strings, frantically oscillating in a ripple around its nucleus. Superstring is a symbology of interaction between science and art, celebrating the merger of these realms. It urges the onlooker to search for a dynamic balance between the two, suggesting a world where humanistic side is often traded for practical aspects of life. It is a call for individual to better themselves and a celebration of a culturally fuller mankind.

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Suited

Biomimetics seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s patterns and strategies. Looking at the paintings from this viewpoint, makes the work more than contextually meaningful. This collection wants to be a daily reminder for people to wear their 'personal best' suit in order to accentuate the unique creatures they are. With a personal presence, a Suited Design encourages people to action, and to become the subject of the action itself. It carries a positive message using nature as a metaphor, where animals and suits are combined into a reflection of ourselves.

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Peep

Peep Screen is a modular and adjustable free-standing furniture designed for people to partition interior space and create private space. Users can build their unique screens and adjust them at any time. By combining two Chinese culture elements: landscape painting and oil-paper umbrella, this design conveys the emphasis of Oriental cultures on implicit beauty in a faintly discernible way. The designer reinterprets and balances the aesthetic relationship between the East and the West, the tradition and the modernity in a unique and objective language.

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