Design Reviews

Design Reviews

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

 

Coming of Age

In Japan, Coming of Age is celebrated when girls and boys turn twenty years old. It is an important occasion when they leave their teens and become adults with rights, responsibilities and liberties. It is a formal once in a lifetime event. The girls customarily wear kimono and the boys kimono or Western suit. Every year the occasion is marked on the second Monday of January.

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Nue Art Work Project

The main motif is natural wood, and Fukuma calling weed. It reflects the form of life.It reflects the shape of life. The shape of life mean is the manifestation of the desire for survival to efficiently obtain nutrition and prosper more richly. But That doesn't mean it's rational or innovative. After all, it's wasteful and unbalanced.It may seem to you every day that it doesn't change, but it actually evolves and gets worse day by day. If you look carefully in the work, you can see the day-to-day accumulation and continuity. Finally, this work is close to the etching technique of painting.

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FOG

This series captures vast architectural pieces in surreal, foggy landscapes, blurring the line between reality and dreams. The landscape images were captured in California, USA, using an iPhone 14, while the architectural elements were photographed across various locations across Europe. Each architectural piece was shot independently from the landscapes. Achieving the correct perspective in both sets of images was necessary and a significant challenge to ensure seamless compositions.

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Peace

The design concepts conveyed by this collage are balance and harmony. Each of the hands around the woman reinforces the presence of the others, and the design falls apart if any of the hands are missing or placed out of balance. The woman and the multiple hands around her were conceived as an integrated design. Because each source material differs in size, brightness, and color from the others, each hand was manipulated individually to create a sense of coherence. This work gives form to a design hierarchy based on equality, as its title suggests.

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Fast Women

The photo series shows the theme of women and racing cars from a new perspective. Instead of being a decorative element, the woman appears as a self-confident personality in a technical environment. Each image conveys determination, coolness and lightness, while subtly resonating vulnerability. The body language retains a natural elegance. The clear image composition and targeted play with blurring direct the eye and create emotions. For a balanced tension, the warm basic tone of the shots is contrasted in part by a technical coolness. Overall, the motifs radiate a calm, focussed atmosphere.

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Hues of the Future

During Cairo Design Week’s second edition, Glc Paints launched Hues of the Future at Ghernata Palace, unveiling its 2024 color trends. Six Egyptian designers envisioned Home 100 years from now, blending nostalgia, nature and human centered design. The exhibition featured four pavilions: Ha-beita, Reserva 77, Brutifully Forward and Casino Central. Each redefining architecture through openness, heritage, and futuristic living.

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