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Design Reviews

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

 

Nirvana World

Nirvana is a Buddhist term for the transcendence of life and death, which can also be understood as rebirth. It is invisible, but you can feel it, it is both static and dynamic, it is frozen in the moment of rebirth. The work uses photography to express the concept of nirvana nirvana, using the transition between ice and water, together with unreal colors to express the concept of nirvana. Visually, the abstract concept is expressed in the style of Chinese ink painting, which brings people's thoughts into the world of nirvana through the unknown, unreal and moving visual images.

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Future man

Greengold examines how futuristic presentations can be understood through color and clothing. Since the product mainly expresses the role of brain development, the element of astronauts is also considered. Clothing styles and accessories have also done a synthesis of the above research, using a lot of silver and blue for visual design

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Glitters

Glitters is a photography series that studies the surface of sequin fabric. The series treats an ordinary functional material as a medium for abstract painting. Human contact changes the sequins in an irreversible way, and each mark is recorded by the camera. The images move from macro to micro views to explore material, texture, color and light. Chance, lighting and intuition guide the experimental approach. The photographs were taken with a digital camera and processed with digital software. Prints are made in a limited edition on fine art paper and plexiglass in four sizes.

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Mother Earth

Mother Earth is a studio portrait photograph that presents the planet in human form as a woman in poor health. The makeup uses green, blue and brown tones to represent oceans, plants and soil. Dying flower petals are placed on the head of the model to suggest illness. The expression of the model conveys sadness and vulnerability. The lighting was created with one large octabox on the model and one light on the backdrop. The final image was refined with digital editing software. The photograph links pollution to human emotion and draws attention to climate change.

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Queen

The extended design is based on the concept of the queen and chessboard. With the two colors black and gold, the design is to convey the sense of high-class and reshape the visual image. In addition to the metal and gold lines used in the product itself, the element of the scene is constructed to set off the war impression of the chess, and we uses the coordination of stage lighting to create smoke and light of the war.

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U15

The artists' project takes advantage of the U15 building's features to create an association with natural elements present in the collective imagination. Taking advantage of the building structure and parts of it, as its colors and shapes, they try to evoke more specifics locations like the Chinese Stone Forest, the American Devil Tower, as generic natural icons like waterfalls, rivers, and rocky slopes. To grant a different interpretation in every picture, the artists explore the building through a minimalist approach, using different angles and perspectives.

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