Fine Art

Explore 200 award-winning designs tagged Fine Art on DXGN.

Designer: Ocean Liang Project Type: 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: Forn Woei Koong Project Type: 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: Sini Majuri Project Type: 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: Jiabao Li Project Type: 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: Rashad Habib Project Type: 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: Wendi Wu Project Type: Art Gazebo Tag: Fine Art

Flaming Bloom

Flaming Bloom is an art gazebo placed in a public park in Guangzhou. The structure takes the shape of a large flower and shields pedestrians from strong sunlight. Rising five meters high, the flower forms a gate that visitors can walk through. The dome is built from twisted stainless steel units developed for the project. One face of each unit is a mirror surface and the other face is painted red. The curved mirrors reflect the surrounding scenery, so the reflected images change as visitors move around and through the gazebo.

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Designer: Chih-Kang Chu Project Type: Installation Art Tag: Fine Art

Blessing from the Sea

Blessing from the Sea is an outdoor art installation placed between the beach and the sea in Pingtung, Taiwan. The work takes the shape of a church and is built from a metal structure, a metal panel base and white fabric strips. When the air is calm, the structure stands quiet. When the seasonal mountain wind blows, the fabric strips move and reveal the force of the wind. The center of the base is cut out, so the work can shift with the tide and avoid being buried in sand. Eight spotlights light the work at night.

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Designer: Maria Joanna Juchnowska Project Type: Conversation Piece Tag: Fine Art

Kintsugi Ferrari Red

Kintsugi Ferrari Red piece from Egg Vessels Collection is a unique, one of the kind piece primarily inspired by the expressive brushstrokes of abstract expressionism and the history of the automobile. After an accident, the piece has matured and received another meaning by being fully restored by using Kintsugi where the cracked pieces were put back together and filled with gold. This unique process gave the art piece complex fresh beauty and simplicity. It gained the maturity of something once broken, yet alive again.

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Designer: Yasuhiro Kuze Project Type: Flower Vase Tag: Fine Art

Noiseless

Noiseless is a hand-thrown porcelain flower vase designed for long or large plants. The form is shaped with a minimum of lines to balance light and shade. The surface is bare porcelain with a soft, smooth texture, and a transparent glaze is applied only inside. Sizes range from 60 by 60 by 110 millimetres to 100 by 100 by 240 millimetres. Each piece is heavy, so long-stemmed flowers remain stable. Placed together, the vases stand like columns and create a quiet monochrome group that can be arranged freely.

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Designer: Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan Project Type: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Pulse

Pulse is a lighting installation created for the 2022 Taiwan Lantern Festival in the national Weiwuying park in Kaohsiung. The installation expresses the emotional states of new immigrants through light and sound. The structure is made of steel tubes, with fiber mesh fixed on each tube between a top ring and a waved base. LED light strips are digitally controlled to follow background music composed for the work. The pavilion is illuminated at sunset, and a three minute light show is presented every thirty minutes. Pulse measures 7 meters wide, 7.8 meters deep and 5.8 meters high.

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Designer: Yang Mai Project Type: Art Installation and Jewelry Tag: Fine Art

Guo Fan

Guo Fan is an art installation combined with art jewelry, based on the culture of overseas Chinese remittance. The work studies the history of Chaozhou people who traveled to Southeast Asia to make a living. A two-way linked spindle structure turns continuously, so the historical scenes overlap without end. The jewelry pieces follow the idea of slices of history, and each piece gives the wearer a different role within the same story. Brass, stainless steel, aluminium, resin and acrylic are used, shaped by laser cutting and 3D printing.

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Designer: Pierre Foulonneau Project Type: Vase Tag: Fine Art

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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