Fine Art

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

Designer / Brand: Hubert Roguski Work: Artwork Tag: Fine Art

CityWood

CityWood is a wooden map artwork that presents a city as a three dimensional object. City streets, water and landscape are represented by separate wooden layers, and the layers create depth. Each layer of fine quality plywood is cut with laser technology, polished for a smooth surface and assembled by hand. The layers are set in a wooden frame that measures 450 mm in width, 450 mm in height and 30 mm in depth. The artwork can hang on a wall or stand on a desk. The natural grain of the wood makes each map different.

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Designer / Brand: Sini Majuri Work: Vase Tag: Fine Art

Pikku

Pikku is a small vase made from recycled waste glass. Each vessel is mouth blown, shaped by hand, signed and numbered. The rhythm of the glass making process creates unique splashes of color within the glass layers. The collection is inspired by soap bubbles and by the movement of brush strokes in abstract painting. Each vase is 100 mm tall and is available in pink, blue and purple. When light passes through the glass, the shadow of the vessel reflects the inner play of color. Pikku combines sustainable thinking with Scandinavian design philosophy.

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Designer / Brand: Rashad Habib Work: Coffee Table Tag: Fine Art

Rims and Spokes

Rims and Spokes, as the name speaks for itself, a Coffee cum showcase table made from rims and spokes of a bicycle topped off with chamfered glass pane makes for an excellent focal piece. The design is innovative yet simple, elegant yet functional. It fits all types of interior settings due to its chrome-transparent color scheme. The height of the table is deliberately etched to suit a relaxed floor seating setup. Overall the ingenuity and creativity of the product is unique and may just be the perfect center piece for any space of just about any customer.

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Designer / Brand: Jiabao Li Work: Art Installation Lighting Film Tag: Fine Art

Glacier Lament

Glacier Lament is an art installation about the loss of glaciers. Pantone lists four color cards for glacier blue, yet in real glaciers this blue is variable and dynamic. As glaciers disappear, this unique blue also disappears. The blue tones of glaciers in Alaska were sampled and blended, then held in sixty recycled glass vials suspended above a canvas. Each time a glacier calving event occurred, one vial fell. By the end of the exhibition all sixty vials had fallen, forming a painting on the canvas beneath.

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Designer / Brand: Forn Woei Koong Work: Coffee Equipment Tag: Fine Art

Smell the Flower

Smell the Flower is a set of measuring equipment for pour over coffee, consisting of a scale and a thermometer. The scale is inspired by flower arrangement. Weights shaped as leaves and fruits are placed on a branch, so weighing coffee beans resembles arranging flowers. The thermometer takes the form of a flower, and the petals rotate open as the hot water is measured, with each petal marking ten degrees. Ceramic, copper, aluminum and acrylic are used in the set. The design gives the preparation of pour over coffee a calm and ritual character.

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Designer / Brand: Ocean Liang Work: Exhibition Tag: Fine Art

Steady Power Wire Art

Steady Power Wire Art is an art installation created for a company anniversary exhibition. The installation uses copper wires supplied by an electric wire and cable manufacturer to outline a large tree that symbolizes the company. Five scenes of daily life extend from the tree: a porridge stall, a dining table, a train, a temple, and a beacon. Changing lighting and audio narration accompany the wire forms, while shadows of the wires fall on the walls and the ceiling. The work covers 281 square meters and shows how electricity supports ordinary daily life.

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Designer / Brand: Masahiro Kito Work: Pottery Furniture Collection Tag: Fine Art

Dress

Dress is a pottery furniture collection that is also shown as an art installation. The collection presents hanging cloth in porcelain, forming a momentary space that appears to defy gravity. Glass cloth is soaked in clay slurry and fired in layers at 1150 degrees Celsius for one day, which adds strength while keeping the material light. Sand supports the shape during firing. Chairs, tables and lighting fixtures have been developed in the collection. The porcelain also transmits light, so the pieces suit use as lamps.

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Designer / Brand: Jung-Mei Wou Work: Public Art Tag: Fine Art

Pride Of The City

Pride of the City is the Public Art in Maple Garden, the urban oasis and an ecological park in Taichung City. This work expresses the image of four birds flying upward and presents multiple images similar to trees, flowers, and birds from different angles to show the cycle of four seasons and the harmonious coexistence of all living things. This public sculpture leads the visitors to approach nature and brighten nights in Maple Garden.

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Designer / Brand: Lin Lin Work: Sculpture Tag: Fine Art

Atgbeyond

Xi'an is located at the starting place of the Great Silk Road. In the creative research process of art, they combines the modern nature of the Xi'an W hotel brand, Xi'an's special history and culture, and the wonderful art stories of the Tang Dynasty. Pop combined with graffiti art become the artistic expression of W hotel which had a profound impact.

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Designer / Brand: Huifeng Lin Work: Artistic Installation Tag: Fine Art

Tide and Stream

Tide and Stream is an artistic installation created for a building in Guangzhou. The upper transparent part represents the tide, standing for things brought to Guangzhou from other places. Its colorful elements are intended to attract young people. The lower metal part stands for the stream, representing local inland things that are strong and rich in meaning. Characters that carry Cantonese culture and the life attitude of Guangzhou people are shown there as movable type plates. The installation is made of champagne gold stainless steel, transparent acrylic and silkscreen stainless steel.

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Designer / Brand: ChungSheng Chen Work: Wooden Vase Tag: Fine Art

Reborn

Creating value for the discarded and leftover of wood from furniture industry by using metal inlaying techniques on an organically spherical wood surface. Inspired by life form of growing seeds, brass wire is embedded on the wood grain, and extending out as the shape of the roots grown to support the wooden vase. The pattern has functional uses as wood leftovers are made into a container for planting, resembling a sprouting seed, symbolizing the cycle of life. The flowing metal root shape gives a sense of vitality, resembling a moving organism.

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Designer / Brand: Jung-Mei Wou Work: Sculpture Installation Tag: Fine Art

Soar

A garden is a mysterious place that heals the human spirit. This sculpture attempts to capture the sensory experience of the journey into the garden, presenting the bird's instantaneous soaring in the air, the sense of speed in flight, and a constantly changing state to evoke the symbol of freedom in the human soul. This sculpture attempts to capture the sensory experience of the garden.

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