The Design Blog

The Design Blog

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

 

Sound Sculpt

Imagine a world where sound is sculpted by movement, creating a mesmerizing audio-visual landscape. SoundSculpt is an generative music tool that fuses spatial sound, motion, and visual art. Drawing inspiration from traditional sculpting, it empowers users to become central to their creative process. With AR Frames, head movements are captured and transformed into real-time audio modulation via a MIDI framework. Developed on runtime engine, SoundSculpt offers an immersive experience that blurs the lines between creator and creation, redefining artistic exploration.

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Expanding U

This design elegantly captures the essence of the expanding universe, offering a glimpse into an unknown galaxy filled with vibrant colors and intricate details. What sets this piece apart is the designer's daring decision to forgo a predetermined layout for the galaxies and stars. She embraces a free-form approach that celebrates creative spontaneity rather than adhering to a strict blueprint that would require erasing and repainting elements. This choice enhances the overall design and intentionally empowers her to place each celestial element in dynamic patterns.

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Emotion Protocol

Emotion Protocol is a kinetic installation that features multiple four-faced Buddha heads mounted on rotating mechanisms. Each head, inspired by traditional Buddhist statuary, is equipped with a motor that allows it to rotate in a programmed pattern. The synchronized movement of the heads produces a dynamic visual display, highlighting the contrast between traditional forms and modern mechanics.

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Shang Shui

The Shang Shui integrates four design elements like tobacco, irrigated water channels, sustainable sources, and the light of hope. They symbolize the memories of Old Taichung-Jiushe, blending the hundred-year development history and land memories of Taichung into the art. Utilizing Augmented Reality, it creates an immersive vision, allowing passengers passing through the Jiushe to witness the history of Taichung's development, thus bringing the environment closer to people. The shimmering water ripples on the ground are given a life-like quality, infusing the site with abundant energy.

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Luminous Island

Took the ocean as the inspiration and integrated the characteristics of Penghu to create the exhibition with the theme of the underwater world in the fall and winter. Visitors walk into the light corridor as if they were walking under the sea. Various types of lanterns lead the audience to follow the waves and explore the exciting music festival. Sea creatures swim under the moonlight. The exhibition combines the elements of the ocean and the stars, like the starlight of Penghu at night, surrounding the island.

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ReCollection

ReCollection is an AI art experience that synthesizes personal memories based on users' language input, blurring the boundaries between remembrance and imagination through AI system design and experimental visualization. ReCollection transforms participants' voice input of fragmented stories into an evolving artistic visualization. Beyond its potential as a future therapeutic prototype for dementia groups, this work provides new possibilities for collective memories and cultural reproduction.

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