Beltman Art by Fan Bai and Jibing Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Competition Category.
BronzeFine Art· 2023
Beltman Art
Client: Beijing Wangjianxi Culture and Technology Co., Ltd.
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Fine Art Category
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About Beltman Art
Beltman has a very recognizable style of composition, it has a human form, but his joints are mechanical, as if dominated. He has strong emotions and a personality. The complex lines are intertwined from the center, incredibly suffocating, and gradually diverge and spread to the whole body, becoming easy and straightforward. Its full-body visual presentation conveys a straightforward concept, control. The designer tries to create an aesthetic where stories can be in simplicity, and the order can be in complexity.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Beltman Art is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Beltman Art is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Beltman Art splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
I believe that design should not only cater to current needs, but also stand the test of time, having lasting vitality and maintaining its appeal and practicality over time. I draw design inspirations from the collision of history, social culture, and trend of times.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Artistic expression and raising awareness are important considerations in my designs. I focus on hot social issues and the common dilemmas faced by people from different cultural backgrounds, hoping to resonate or inspire thinking through design and striving to make the design have a profound impact beyond the current era.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I'm currently preparing two exhibitions for this award-winning work in Beijing.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The work is an integration of art and design, with functions of collectibles, decorations, toys, etc. Simplicity and refinement coexist, integrating deconstruction and structuralism styles. The joint structure is boldly exposed, highlighting the strength, texture, and visual gravity of the whole structural volume. Streamlines create momentum and tension. The details draw rich emotions and storytelling. The interpretation and practice of sustainable design emphasize on rethinking design and harmony with the contemporary way of life between Maximalism and Minimalism.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Product dimensions, W 130mm x D 80mm x H 280mm. Package dimensions, W 240mm x D 140mm x H 360mm.
- Tags
- Metaverse, Artistic Toy, Collectibles, Decoration, Emotions, Sustainable
- Production Technology
- Featuring the idea of sustainable design, it is entirely digital R&D, a simplified design, hollowing out the internal structure to significantly reduce the material consumption and product weight. The integration is lightweight and durable. Exquisite handy craftsmanship and craftsman spirit empower precise and efficient technology to create a modern art decor with warmth.
- Design Challenge
- The product structure has high requirements for fineness and details. However, increasing the fineness will increase the consumables and damage rate. Therefore, the research challenge is balancing energy efficiency and minimizing consumables and weight without sacrificing quality.
- Research
- On the premise of pursuing high quality for design and production, 15 experiments were conducted between the fineness of 0.05 and 0.1 to achieve a balance between precision and the best energy efficiency. This design uses non-uniform thickness hollow-out technology and 3D printing technology. According to different stress positions, the corresponding hollow thickness is emphasized, which significantly improves the qualified rate of finished products, and at the same time, minimizes consumables to achieve the best balance of refinement, weight, and quality.
- Inspiration
- The real world is undergoing profound changes, and Metaverse brings central and decentralized games. It revolves around one theme “control”. People pursue simplicity and construct rules. At the same time, development and competition come up to complexity, balance, and opposition. The design head to the theme intuitively and innovatively. Regulation and competition, simplicity and complexity, influence each other, and are mutually transferable. Human society has always pursued a kind of “control” that combines balance and opposition.
- Project Duration
- The project started in 2021 and was completed in 2022.
- Operation Flow
- With a structural beauty from the Physical World, its shape and character reflect immersive reverie and emotional interaction with the Virtual World. The surface texture reflects the uncertainty of future technology and interacts and blends with people and space.
- Patents
- Patented. 202130831681.7. Fan Bai. 2021. CN.
Copyrights belong to Fan Bai, 2021. - Team Members
- Designer: Fan Bai, Jibing Wu
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Creator Fan Bai, Beltman, 2022.
Image #2: Creator Fan Bai, Beltman, 2022.
Image #3: Creator Fan Bai, Beltman, 2022.
Image #4: Creator Fan Bai, Beltman, 2022.
Image #5: Creator Fan Bai, Beltman, 2022.
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