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Whyixd Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for Heaven Bloom Kinetic Installation in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Whyixd honored for fine arts and art installation design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Heaven Bloom Kinetic Installation by Whyixd has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Heaven Bloom Kinetic Installation
Heaven Bloom is a kinetic installation placed in the lobby of a building inspired by nature in Taichung City, Taiwan. The work is composed of 144 mechanical metal flowers made of aluminium and stainless steel. Different finishes were applied to the metal to create special textures and colours. Each flower contains more than 50 mechanical components and is driven by a motor. The flowers open out of the wall surface and sway to the background music. Four melodies relate to the four seasons, so the moving flowers form a near-natural scene indoors.
About Whyixd
Whyixd is a cross-field art installation design team from Taiwan. We have members come from art / architecture / design / engineering / mechanical fields. We collaborate with dance / architecture / pop music / modern art partners. Whyixd focus on different kinds of surprise and explore more imagination in daily life. We break the barrier of 2 dimensions world with new media, presenting more body experience to audience. We build immersive illusions, make it snow in tropical area, sprinkle a handful of petal into silent space. Displace the time and space, copy the natural scenery, capture the moments of mind, create unseen experience, build “digital landscape”.
Award Record
With this recognition, Whyixd is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Typical entries include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. The awarded art designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/fine-art
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/97923
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/97923
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!97923
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/269148
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.whyixd.com/heavenbloom2019
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Heaven Bloom Kinetic Installation
- Function
- Kinetic Installation
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Silver, Dim Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Whyixd
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #97923
Credits
- Team
- Yen Po Yeh, Zih Jing Wei, Chieh Lin Chuang, Wei Cheng Yeh, Shih Pan Liu, Chung Fu Kuo, Meng Te Hsieh, Yen hsiang Huang and Jen Hsiang Cheng
- Image Credits
- Design:Whyixd Client:Golden Jade Construction Sound Design: Ami Tseng , Hsu Tzu-Chuan Video Directed,Photographed & Edited:Liu Che Chun Photography:Koumin Lee
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The work hangs on a building constructed by GoldenJade development corporation, along with WOHA, a singapore-based firm. The building itself is inspired by nature and led to the idea of creating an installation that imitates flowers. Whyixd intended to sow the seeds of the flowers into the concrete wall, blooming out of the surface and becoming a dynamic piece. The 144 mechanical metal flowers sway to the rhythm of the lobby’s background music.
- Inspiration
- The work is inspired by the special plant "Nanhu Rhododendron", which only grows in one of 100 mountain peaks in Taiwan "Nanhu Mountain". The Nanhu Rhododendron is adaptive in extreme climate on high mountains—it appears rusty yellow color before it blooms.However, when it’s in full bloom the flower appears like white snowflakes all over around the mountain peak. We believe that this work could bear any poor conditions but still bloom elegantly, responding to the vitality of Taiwan.
- Research
- The study of the shape of Nanhu Rhododendron, the blooming movement of the flowers.We made different versions of motors and mechanical design to improve the mechanical smoothness.
- Challenge
- The installation was set up on 7 meter-high marble facade so we need to cooperate with the construction company,such as cutting marble holes at precise position, installing wires behind the wall. And it is very challenging to develop the software system to control 144 motors at the same time. In the end, we develop a customized interface for generating motion for all the kinetic flowers in real-time.
- Realization and Technology
- Each flower of the work is consist of more than 50 pieces mechanical components . The installation used aluminium and stainless steel, different finishes were applied to metal in order to produce special textures and colors . And motors drive the mechanical to operate.
- Operation and Interaction
- The installations are set to four different melodies corresponding to the four seasons the ambient sounds collected from endemic species in Taiwan. Different patterns and movements allow the blooming flowers create a near-natural mesmeric scenario indoors, freezing moments in time, building a simulation of a unique phenomena in nature.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2017 and finished in August 2019 , and was positioned in the lobby of a building by Golden Jade Development Corp. in Taichung City, Taiwan.
- Specifications
- Each flower of size 340mm x 330mm x 120mm, when closed, opens to a size of 340mm x 360mm x 160mm in full bloom.
- Keywords
- Kinetic Sculpture, Art, Installation, Interior design, Public Art
