Art and Design

Art and Design

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

 

Happy Birthday Likeboxes

When was the last time you received or crafted a hand-drawn birthday card? Relive this joy with Hikoko's Happy Birthday Likeboxes, an art installation showcasing 366 illuminated mailboxes, each representing a day of the year. Their appearance, reminiscent of social media posts invites visitors to reflect on the often-impersonal nature of social media interactions and to create and share hand-drawn birthday cards with personal, heartfelt wishes. The installation enables the exchange of warm messages and personal creativity, spreading positivity and connecting people one card at a time.

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Butterfly and Lady

The sculpture reflects the artist's interest in humanity's connection with nature, contrasting physical reality with the spiritual realm. It symbolizes change and life's fleeting beauty by combining human and butterfly forms, highlighting the contrast between art's durability and nature's transience. The piece aims to capture and preserve transient beauty. Its intricate design features a contemplative woman adorned with butterflies, symbolizing freedom and transformation, with a marble-like bronze surface enhancing its aesthetic appeal.

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Endless Succession

To interpret the image of endless succession, the Xinxian Waterfall is the theme and is combined with the diversified ecological species in Neidong, including the Grey-chinned Minivet, Formosana Begonia, Elatostema platyphylloides, Giant Elephant's Ear, Wulai Azalea, and emerald tree frogs, among other flora and fauna. The Atayal totems are also interwoven to symbolize the coexistence between the Atayal people and the life nurtured by the local forest.

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Weightlessness

The project is an immersive spatial experience video installation. The theme is weightlessness, which is originally a physical concept, through the clever visual transformation and multi-media integration, to create a new visual experience for the audience. The work Weightlessness is a metaphor for modern urban life, ecological environment, and people's feelings and states in real life. The designer hopes that the audience can feel a weightlessness state during the visit, reflecting on their own situation and confusion in urban life.

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Waiting for the Wave in Metaverse

This artwork is a visualisation of the momentary shape of a wave in perfect shape for surfing that is aesthetically pleasing and gives the audience pleasant confusion simultaneously. It was created through a creative process between digital and physical, mixing reality and virtual reality in collaboration with EPFL. It attempts to generate an experience in nature and reaffirms the supple strength of human cognitive abilities that select aesthetic experiences actively to create a better future. A sense of human existence will remain unchanged forever, even in a future where reality is in chaos.

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Zen

Quilling is a paper roll art technique that uses paper strips to make circles, curves by curling and folding, paste them on cardboard to present the 3D effect of the work. This work of art used 1 cm wide colored paper strips, to make large and small rolls to draw lines with dots, draw surfaces with lines, make dense paper rolls through a variety of permutations and combinations of size, shape, color contrast. She tried various methods to find a way that can express gradient colors, and finally made this rolled paper work break the paper's restrictions on gradient colors.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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