Fine Art

Explore 200 award-winning designs tagged Fine Art on Design Cult.

Brand: Alan Aronica Design: Lamp Category: Fine Art

Junone

Junone is a lamp designed as both a functional light and a sculptural object. The form combines rounded organic shapes with tensions inspired by the aeronautical industry, creating an architectural presence and a sense of direction. Junone is made only with 3D printed nylon infused with glass and 3D printed steel infused with bronze. A hollow shell reduces the amount of material used without weakening the structure. The lamp holds a replaceable and dimmable 5 watt LED and is operated by a simple switch. Junone is a limited series of ten numbered pieces.

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Brand: Dmitry Kudinov Design: Site Specific Art Category: Fine Art

Embrace

Embrace is a site specific mural painted on a building facade in Sterlitamak. The mural is 27 meters high and 15 meters wide, with a painted surface of 405 square meters. Facade paints and paint rollers were used, and facade lifts allowed painting at height. The artistic work took three weeks. The story shown recalls a soldier of the 170th Sterlitamak infantry division who left for the front with a silver pocket watch and promised to return with it. His remains and the watch were found in 2015 and brought home to his wife.

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Brand: Xu Ge Design: Public Art Category: Fine Art

House of Dream

House of Dream is a public art sculpture installed in Shenzhen, China. The sculpture is made of stainless steel, LED lighting and PC sheet with a one-way mirror, and it measures 320 centimeters wide, 120 centimeters deep and 400 centimeters high. During the day, the reflective surface mirrors the surrounding environment. At night, changing light forms an inward space. Visitors interact with the work and alter the lighting effects. The sculpture responds to the similar appearance of many new residential buildings and recalls memories of home.

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Brand: Yu-Liang Chen, NewLocal Art Studio Design: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Earth Worker

Earth Worker is an outdoor art installation placed in a wetland in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The semi-representative human figure stands in the water like a giant that creates all living things. One side of the body looks down at the earth, while the other side looks up at the sky. Glass fiber reinforced cement is the main material, applied over a metal frame and a sculpted foam core. The brushed cement mortar surface is left plain, without added color or patches. The installation refers to local history and to the culture of the Macadao people.

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Brand: Kuo Kuo-Hsiang Design: Public Art Category: Fine Art

Flowers And Butterflies Are Dancing

Flowers and Butterflies Are Dancing is a public art sculpture installed on a large square in Taichung, Taiwan. The work is made of acid-resistant stainless steel, seamlessly welded and polished, and is illuminated with RGB lights. Mirror and matte surfaces reflect the sky, the plants and the changing light, so the sculpture blends with the landscape. Open forms let the wind pass through and reduce wind resistance. The shapes recall the Formosa Lily and butterflies. The sculpture measures 1400 by 1100 by 650 centimeters and was assembled on site from twelve parts.

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Brand: Przemysław Koczkodaj Design: Wall Art Category: Fine Art

Different Maps

The design is a 3D map, created with the use of laser-cut wood for the streets and the infrastructure, and epoxy resin for the water reservoirs. The map can show any place on Earth, to remind you of a special time or place in your life. It is made with the use of modern technology, and is meant to combine the ancient art of carpentry with the new possibilities of laser accuracy.

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Brand: Andrea Cingoli Design: Multifunctional Pot Category: Fine Art

Castelli di Ceramica

Castelli di Ceramica is a modular ceramic pot that can also be used as a fruit bowl or container. The pot is made of four parts that stack together with stable and precise interlocking. When closed, the piece works as a decorative object for tables and sideboards, and it can also hold flowers. When the four parts are separated, each one serves as a bowl or a container. Every piece is decorated by hand in the traditional style of Castelli, an Italian village with a long history of ceramic craft. The pot is dishwasher safe.

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Brand: YINGRI GUAN Design: Art Installation Category: Fine Art

Ice Core

Ice Core Visualization is an art installation that shows the relationship between carbon dioxide levels and global climate. The installation is made of eight acrylic tubes filled with layered gel wax. Each tube is 8 inches in diameter and 3 feet long. Each wax layer represents average data for a thousand-year period, covering the last four hundred thousand years in total. A greyscale scheme shows the variation of carbon dioxide. A second scheme uses red for heat and blue for cold to show temperature variation.

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Brand: Tae-Young Kim Design: Fine Art Category: Fine Art

So-Jeok-Hwa

So-Jeok-Hwa is the task expressing the shape of the leaf, like flower. This flower comforts and heals those who hurt with their hearts, and it is based on the experience experienced in the artist's life. It is a flower that expresses the leaves about as flowers and expresses the wind toward a society where values are respected. It is the act of recording a story or emotion, just like writing a note or writing a letter.

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Brand: Hangzhou Keydo Industrial Design Co.,Ltd Design: Resonant Speaker Category: Fine Art

The Voice of Ceramic

The Voice of Ceramic is a series of resonance speakers made of ceramic for mobile phones. The speakers amplify sound without any power supply, so no electricity is used. A mobile phone is placed vertically into a groove in the middle of the body. Sound from the phone outlet enters the resonance chamber and is amplified, with the bass strengthened. Music is released from two outlets on the left and right, creating a stereo effect. The loudness of the same music can be increased by 12 dB. Ceramic has a long history as a material for musical instruments in China.

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Brand: ana maria reque sotelo Design: Sculpture Lamp Category: Fine Art

Meduse

Meduse is a sculptural lamp inspired by marine habitats. Each piece combines Raku ceramic with blown Murano glass tentacles. The lamp is suitable for indoor and outdoor use and creates light and shadow effects on nearby walls. Multicolored LED lighting can be adjusted with a remote control. The ceramic body is modeled in refractory clay, dried, fired, glazed and fired again at 930 degrees Celsius, then removed from the oven while still hot. The resulting thermal shock creates a crazed surface with metallic and iridescent reflections.

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Brand: Yuji Okitsu Design: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Lightflakes For StarMicronics

Lightflakes is a light installation created for the entrance of a corporate headquarters in Shizuoka, Japan. The work is built from 53,900 small lenses, each 40 mm in diameter and 0.3 mm thick, made of recyclable PET and shaped by laser cutting. The lenses are precisely assembled into two large optical screens that gather and reconstruct light. The screens are light in weight, so the surface sways gently and reveals changing brilliance. The installation responds to natural daylight entering through the glass facade and expresses the idea of miniature technology creating an infinite world.

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