Press Release
Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Pulse Art Installation in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan of MisoSoupDesign for fine arts and art installation design
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Pulse Art Installation by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan of MisoSoupDesign has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Pulse Art Installation
Pulse is a lighting installation created for the 2022 Taiwan Lantern Festival in the national Weiwuying park in Kaohsiung. The installation expresses the emotional states of new immigrants through light and sound. The structure is made of steel tubes, with fiber mesh fixed on each tube between a top ring and a waved base. LED light strips are digitally controlled to follow background music composed for the work. The pavilion is illuminated at sunset, and a three minute light show is presented every thirty minutes. Pulse measures 7 meters wide, 7.8 meters deep and 5.8 meters high.
About Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan
Daisuke Nagatomo graduated from Meiji University in Tokyo, and decided to pursue his passion of architecture at Columbia University, where he received master degree in advanced architectural design. Nagatomo began his career in the metropolitan New York area with architecture firms, including TEN Arquitectos and Design Office for Research and Architecture. He was the invited researcher for FabLab House project at IaaC, Barcelona from 2009 to 2010 where he holds research diploma. Nagatomo is currently the assistant professor of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan as well as adjunct faculty member of Tokyo Denki University.
About MisoSoupDesign
MisoSoupDesign is Japan / Taiwan based Design Studio led by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan.
Award Record
This recognition makes Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan of MisoSoupDesign a winner of 23 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2011 - 2012 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Entries typically include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. Awarded art designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/fine-art
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/136353
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/136353
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!136353
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/112232
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.misosoupdesign.com
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Pulse Art Installation
- Function
- Art Installation
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Silver, Light Gray, Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Brand
- MisoSoupDesign
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #136353
Credits
- Team
- Daisuke Nagatomo, Minnie Jan, Zoe Li and Hua Kou
- Image Credits
- N/A
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Pulse incorporates digital technology with the organic form of structure to represent the emotional states. As the main lighting installation for the new immigrants theme, the lighting installation is located in the national Weiwuying park, Kaohsiung during the Taiwan Lantern Festival 2022.
- Inspiration
- The concept of Pulse is to digitize the emotional into light signal. The LED stripe coheres with the background music, which specifically created for this installation.
- Research
- Pulse visualizes the emotional states of immigrants when they enter a new realm. It appears to be still, yet sometimes beats harshly and sometimes expresses slowly. Migrating to a new environment has all kinds of feelings, including hope, excitement, nervousness, fear, and joy. There are many to expect during the process, difficulties to deal with, and challenges to face. These emotional waves are critical elements of a new journey, yet unable to share with new neighbors. Therefore, in the theme of new immigrants, we express the emotional condition with digitalized lighting and music with the surface of the metamorphosed pulse wave.
- Challenge
- The most challenging aspect of this project is to integrate digital lighting with a physical steel structure. However, lighting scenarios and structural design were nicely coordinated to overcome the challenges.
- Realization and Technology
- The structure mainly employs steel tubes in different diameters, allocated adequately with structural loads. The fiber mesh is installed on each steel tube that connects the top ring and bottom waved structure. The LED light strip and the bottom steel structure are digitally controlled to match the background sounds.
- Operation and Interaction
- The pavilion gets illuminated during the sunset moment. Then, the LED light stripe turns its color while the background sound starts. Once in thirty minutes, there are 3 minutes lighting show to express the emotional state of new immigrants.
- Project Duration and Location
- 2021.10 Design Proposal 2021.11 Design Development 2022.01 Prefabrication in Taoyuan 2022.02 Completion in Kaohsiung
- Specifications
- 7 meter width, 7.8 meter depth, 5.8 meter height
- Keywords
- Art Installation, Pavilion, Lighting Installation, White, Structure
