Hitobito Art Installation by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan

Hitobito Art Installation by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Competition Category.

IronFine Art· 2023

Hitobito Art Installation

by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan

Client: MisoSoupDesign

A' Design Award Winner in Fine Art Category

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The Design

About Hitobito Art Installation

Hitobito is an art installation created for the lantern festival held in Taipei City in 2023. The structure draws inspiration from the Chinese character for a person, formed by two members supporting each other. Two small entrances merge into one larger space, where a projector at the center casts motion graphics onto the ground. The manually bent steel pipe frame is clad with bamboo dowels one centimeter wide, joining traditional Asian weaving with an industrial structure. The installation measures 9.8 meters wide, 7.8 meters deep and 3.5 meters high.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Hitobito Art Installation is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Hitobito Art Installation is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Hitobito Art Installation is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

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Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: HitoBito is the art installation created for the lantern festival in Taipei City in 2023. The structural design draws inspiration from the Chinese character of a person, which is two members supporting each other. The two small entrances, which face one of the main entrances to the festival venue, merge into one space where people can audit the projection on the ground.
Dimensions & Packaging: 9.8 meter width, 7.8 meter depth, and 3.5 meter height
Tags: Art Installation, Lighting Installation, Bamboo, Taipei, Taiwan
Production Technology: Manually bent steel pipe structure is cladded with 1cm bamboo dowels in its width. A projector is installed at the center of installation to project the motion graphic onto the floor.
Design Challenge: The installation is the combination of industrial material and traditional Asian bamboo crafting. The organic shape of installation is composed with three dimensional curvature. Thus, the weaved surface with bamboo dowels are adopted with steel pipe structure to wrap the installation.
Research: This art installation is the part of Taiwan lantern festival hosted in Taipei city in February 2023. The event is integrated in the Taipei urban fabric with interaction with the visitors in the city. Hito bito is selected as one of new immigrant installation to celebrate diversity of Taiwan with many nations to work and live together.
Inspiration: The design inspiration is where people gather and feel the diversity of Taipei City. The weaved bamboo facade and white-painted steel pipes represent the traditional Asian crafting method meeting with architectural structure.
Project Duration: The design started in November 2022 and finished construction in January 2023 in Taipei City. The Lantern festival was open to public in February 2023.
Operation Flow: Major flow of visitors is located on the narrow side entrance of the installation. Visitors enter the space individually, and meet at the larger space where has a projection of motion graphic.
Team Members: Daisuke Nagatomo
Minnie Jan
Jenny Yeh
Hao Sung