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Design Cult

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

 

Wavelet

Wavelet is an interactive light installation created by Geeksart New Media Art Group. It uses the changing light to mimic the flowing water. Wavelet is composed of 1,300 light-responsive light bulbs. Each light bulb is designed in an arc shape, which gives the light wave a distinct direction.Water can take any shape and reacts immediately to any external force; perhaps the unpredictable nature of water is what intrigues people to play with it, what causes children to spend an afternoon of excitement under its spell.

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Dancing Cubes

This design interacts with displayed subject by modules. This theme stand is designed with self-expanded mechanism to connect six or more cubes to an up-scaled unit in three perpendicular directions. The free form configuration with notches makes the connection similar to interlaced dancing people. The arrangement of small holes creates a structure of accommodation for subject with linear parts.

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Rainy Day

on the material canvas with actual brush and color paint. initial design concept get influence from Japanese animation and focused to harmony between human girl and robot with present Asian style background. overall storytelling is most major thing of the artwork that relationship between girl and robot it is definitely distinction with other acrylic painting works. also set night timeline and natural mood that bring more uncanny sensibility with rainy.

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Hineri

A washi maker Yukari Sato, she collaborated with woodworker, and a 3D Modeler. The production of Hineri starts with building the delicate wooden frames which are jointed by 3D printed parts. A smooth surface is created with thin lines of threads and the paper-making process is repeated many times by dipping it into the water tank containing bark fiber of mulberry. The fiber spreads randomly between the threads and allows light to leak like sunlight shining through the tree leaves. Proposing a new approach to craftsmanship by combining traditional techniques with the latest technology.

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Porous Manifold

This is a temporary Japanese tearoom exhibited in Echigo-tsumari Art Triennale 2018 and has a nested structure with two-tatami space embedded in ten foot square. In this exhibition, architects were asked to respond to the theme of how to overcome the concept of homogeneous space that was dominant in the 20th century. The skeleton was designed using the random pattern which was called Voronoi Division to distort homogeneous space. And it was proposed that the architecture with a large number of holes what could be opened and closed as needed to communicate with the outside like a living thing.

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Kepler 186f

Structural basis of Kepler-186f arm-chair is a griddle, soldered from a steel wire to which the elements carved from the oak are fastened with the help of brass sleeves. Various options of armature use combine in harmony with wooden carving and jewelers elements. This art-object represents an experiment in which different aesthetic principles are combined. It could be described as "Barbaric or New Baroque" in which the rough and the exquisite forms are combined. As a result of improvisation, the Kepler became multilayered, enveloped with the subtexts and new details.

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