Design Cult

Design Cult

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

 

Guo Fan

The theme of this project is Culture Of Overseas Chinese Remittance, with the close correlation between Chaozhou wood carvings and overseas Chinese remittance as the development line, researching the important Chaozhou overseas Chinese culture in Chaoshan's maritime culture, excavating the history of Chaozhou overseas Chinese who went to the Southeast Asia to make a living. This work is expressed by means of an art installation derived from art jewelry. To remember, memorialize and pay tribute to the spirit of hard work of the ancestors of Chaoshan by contemporary techniques.

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Blessing from the Sea

The white church represents the carrier of faith, and the strong wind represents the social environment. In the present society, information is becoming more and more transparent and diverse, but people's beliefs are becoming more and more vague and uncertain, and it is easier and easier to forget their original intentions and their own hearts. The wind wears away the church slowly, just like the scene of the farewell ceremony, the faith is disappearing and forgotten gradually.

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Pulse

Pulse visualizes the emotional states of immigrants when they enter a new realm. It appears to be still, yet sometimes beats harshly and sometimes expresses slowly. Migrating to a new environment has all kinds of feelings, including hope, excitement, nervousness, fear, and joy. There are many to expect during the process, difficulties to deal with, and challenges to face. These emotional waves are critical elements of a new journey, yet unable to share with new neighbors.

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Glacier Lament

Glaciers are sentinels of climate change. They are the most visible evidence of global warming today. There are four color cards in Pantone for glacier blue. However, in real glaciers, this blue color is variable and dynamic. As glaciers are disappearing, this unique blue is also disappearing. Designers sampled and blended the blue color from glaciers in Alaska and hung them in recycled glass vials. When one glacier calving happened, one color vial fell down. At the end of the exhibition, all 60 vials fell down, forming a painting on the canvas beneath.

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Smell the Flower

Smell the Flower is a series of poetic pour over coffee measuring equipment. This collection contains two items: scale and thermometer. The scale is inspired by flower arrangements. By using the weights designed in the shape of leaves and fruits, the user measures beans like decorating vase. The thermometer is designed in the shape of a flower, and the rotation angle of the blooming petals show the temperature. Smell the flower build a sense of ritual, enhances the experience of pour over coffee.

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Leaf Tall

Nature materializes strongly in the Leaf Tall vase created by French designer Pierre Foulonneau. The vase associate crystal and metal in a poetic design where a golden leaf sits in a transparent pedestal. The results is a vase bearing an unalterable natural presence, even when empty. And, during flower season, the metal part acts as a receptacle for greeting and showcasing fresh flowers.

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