The Design Blog

The Design Blog

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

 

Hitobito

Hitobito is the art installation created for the lantern festival in Taipei City in 2023 as a part of the new immigrant district in Song Shan Cultural Park. The structural form draws people inside to experience the passage of reaching a unique destination that collects people's memory of their hometown. In addition, the installation is brightened at night with warm lighting to wrap the visitors to synchronize their emotional state with the space.

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Ada

The topic of project is the design of hyper-technological elements in 21st century cars. The tasks in the research are to solve the possible problems in the shaping and offer hyper-technological solutions in its interior and exterior. Regarding the exterior of the car, a smooth line is sought, while creating aggression and stability on the road, is also deliberately smoother and wraps around all elements of the car's shell. It is made with concept auxetic material which is corresponding with the three modes of interior.

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Venous

Venous Materials project envisions a new way to design dynamic tangible interactions using fluidic Interfaces. It is a new type of interactive material that is inspired by veins systems in nature and throughout the human body. When the user applies pressure or motion to the material, it dynamically displays geometric patterns and colors. The different patterns are displays that function as tangible sensors, to animate dynamic graphics, to create responsive objects for learning activities, and to visualize body movement and balance.

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Glowing Eustoma

Glowing Eustoma is a noble flower in nature, revealing the concept about Light of Love and Peace in the darkness. The biotechnology makes Eustoma to glow as the lamps without any light sources in the darkness by utilizing the leaf vein absorption of high-entropy oxides, which are in line with EU standards. The attribute of a glowing flower lies in not only its light but also its soul.

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Nera Asimmetrica

The Nera Asimmetrica is meant to be a tribute to the past projected into the future. A starting point for a new type of concept hypercar. Old solutions meet with new devices and technologies, harmonizing into sinuous forms and extraordinary performance that give to the driver a riding experience not only intimate but also thrilling. Having the liberty to choose which type of traction to use in this hybrid vehicle give to the driver a sense of total control. The past has been homaged by creating something special, that breaks the patterns for the future generations.

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Roses and Kaleidoscope

This is a fascinating project that started in 2012 as a Facebook page where ASCII and Unicode patterns have been generated. In this abstract project, the generated patterns are adapted for digital art. Why ASCII and Unicode for digital design are so clever? This project shows how a straightforward system of 8-bit and 16-bit code and potentially any HTML text field can be utilised to generate intensely beautiful patterns through iteration and duration and collaboration it can produce sophisticated and vibrant results. This project aims to set up an interactive digital patterns bank on Facebook.

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