Design Reviews

Design Reviews

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

 

WoodBergs

These images represent details of sections of trees felled to be transformed into something else. The use of negative inversion and direct printing on aluminum enhance the colors and the concept of destruction of our planet. The artist is inspired by artistic photography and environmental rights, transforming details of nature and flora: photographic technique and rights merge into surreal images to lead the viewer to reflect on what can be done to safeguard the planet. A better world is possible, it also depends on you.

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Dignity

He designed a "Dignity" by photography. Those objects are pine and plum trees that have seen everywhere in Japan and lived for over 100 years. Those have been expressed in "Sumi-e" and ink painting, folding screen painting from ancient times. After he took photos, he adjusted exposure and configured those in the white square. From his works, the viewer can imagine the background and feel the existence as "Dignity". Therefore it can be said that his design attempt is to eliminate boundaries of Painting and Photography.

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Kumano Cherry

A new cherry tree "Kuma no Sakura" was discovered in the small town of Kozagawa in Japan during 100 years. A new type of cherry tree in a small town with little industry is expected as a new tourism resource for the town. This project aims to make "Kuma no Sakura" a tourist attraction in the city. Many people take pictures of the beautiful "Kumano Sakura" and send it to many people.

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Mirage de Parc

The Project is a photography project that showing architectures. And also, it delivered each meaning through different spots such as structures and buildings. This work shows his wonder to the new island. When looking at the yellow lines shining by the light of the project, they are shaped into a mirage-like design in the middle of the desert. There is a spatial design that is wide enough to be divided into long curved line.

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Koepenick Waterfront

The pictures differ in that it is not a well-known photos of large cities such as New York, Shanghai and Singapore with their skylines on the water, but shows a smaller city that also offers interesting views even if it is unknown. The photos are intended to show the colors of the night which one usually discovers only when it is dark and one makes long-term recordings. The images were not heavily processed, just aligned, spots and noise removed and black and saturation adjusted.

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Fine Art Photography

Digital photographs created by stitching up to a hundred individual exposures together. Post-production using Adobe Photoshop gives the images a painterly, artistic feel. The detail and clarity of a photograph yet the feel of an old master painting gives the photographs an artistic conflict: a conflict between looking at a real subject with all the detail and clarity of a photograph, but the artistic treatment removes the literal feel to give an unreality to the scene. Printed 60 x 90 inches or larger reminds us of the grand scale of old master paintings, not photography.

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