Art and Design

Art and Design

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

 

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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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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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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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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Black Labyrinth

Black Labyrinth by Eckhard Beger for ArteNemus is a vertical chest of drawers with 15 drawers drawing its inspiration from Asian medical cabinets and the Bauhaus style. Its dark architectural appearance is brought to life through bright marquetry rays with three focal points which are mirrored around the structure. The conception and mechanism of the vertical drawers with their rotating compartment convey the piece its intriguing appearance. The wood structure is covered with black dyed ebony veneer while the marquetry is made in flamed maple. The veneer is oiled to achieve a satinated finish.

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The HK Eye Sculpture

The HK Eye is a stainless steel sculpture that is inspired by the beauty of the skyline along two sides of the Victoria Harbour. It is located at a very prominent location at the heart of Hong Kong - the Tamar Park which is right adjacent to the government headquarter of the city. The sculpture represents the dynamic, diversity and vibrancy of Hong Kong as represented by the image of the Victoria Harbour. The skyline takes a radial form emerging from the center of the sculpture to represent the dynamic flux in Hong Kong as a first-class international city.

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