Design Cult

Design Cult

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

 

Micro Matter

The Micro Matter series is designed to take you out of this world for a moment, into another. It consists of a series of miniature worlds, floating inside upside-down glass test tubes. Towering houses, sky scrapers, campsites and a water tower, each sculpture inspires the next. Except for the glass tubes, everything is handmade. All different kinds of material are used, that are found while traveling or out in nature.

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In Art We Live

"In Art We Live" is an installation that serves as both a visual merchandising display and an art piece in Hong Kong's K11. The quote expresses K11's core values of "Art, People, Nature", bringing fine arts into a retail environment for the public to enjoy. The piece is fitted with LED lights that are programmed to change colours throughout the day, making it more alive and eye-catching for shoppers.

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Meteorite No.K11

"The Meteorite No.K11" was created on the main piazza of the Guangzhou K11 mall to celebrate multiple occasions - the K11 brand's 10th anniversary, the Guangzhou branch's grand opening events and the 2019 holiday season. The 10-meter-high art piece took on the form of a radial meteorite, making an impact onto our planet. Its body is crafted of stainless steel, finished in a futuristic metallic chrome. Digital lighting was programmed to changed colors in pulsating rhythms to achieve an energetic and hip visual effect.

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Lichtglas

This object is both a lamp and a sculpture, depending on the intention and use of the viewer. An oval glass disc partly framed and mounted on a steel stand can be illuminated by LED. The glass was melted using a special technique with several layers at the GLASLICHTKLANG atelier in Urstall/Southern Bavaria. The object is suitable for indoor and outdoor use.

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Grain and Fire Portal

Comprised of wood and quartz crystal, this organic light sculpture uses sustainably sourced wood from a reserve stock of aged Teak wood. Weathered for decades by the sun, wind, and rain, the wood is then hand shaped, sanded, burnt and finished into a vessel for holding LED lighting and using quartz crystals as a natural diffuser. 100% natural unaltered quartz crystals are used in each sculpture and are approximately 280 million years old. A variety of wood finishing techniques are used including the Shou Sugi Ban method of using fire for preservation and contrasting color.

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Honeycomb

Honeycomb's design is a combination of nature, geometry, and data technology. Honeycomb design element is straight lines, while the queen bee uses arc lines, using 3D data generation and 3D laser cutting technology. The whole hive gives a sense of the joy of eating a few mouthfuls of honey. The intersecting and subtracting of the square body and the sphere add interest and make use of the mechanical characteristics of the arch structure to balance its own force. The device don’t destroy the original indoor structure and defines the recreational function of the open corridor area.

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