The Glimmer Installation artistique sur train by FunDesign.tv and Tape That Collective is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award d'Argent in Beaux-Arts Competition Category.
ArgentBeaux-Arts· 2022
The Glimmer Installation artistique sur train
by FunDesign.tv and Tape That Collective
Client: Kaohsiung City Government
A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Beaux-Arts Category
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The Design
About The Glimmer Installation artistique sur train
The Glimmer est une installation de tape art réalisée sur un train à Kaohsiung, à Taïwan. Près de 110 mètres carrés de ruban phosphorescent recouvrent l'extérieur du train et composent des fresques évoquant la mer, les ports, les montagnes et les bâtiments de la ville. Le ruban absorbe la lumière du soleil le jour et la restitue la nuit : le train se transforme ainsi en lanterne en mouvement, sans recourir à l'électricité. L'intérieur est habillé de films lumineux et d'éclairages changeants. Conçue pour le Festival des Lanternes de Taïwan, l'installation met en œuvre plusieurs techniques de tape art.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award d'Argent
The Glimmer Installation artistique sur train est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent, une reconnaissance énormément prestigieuse décernée à des designs haut de gamme, superbes et impressionnants. Les lauréats Argent sont des œuvres tout à fait brillantes et extrêmement créatives qui illustrent l'expertise, le talent et la perspicacité remarquables de leurs concepteurs. The Glimmer Installation artistique sur train est censé être une œuvre merveilleuse, une vitrine de savoir-faire, remarquablement professionnelle et profondément innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent est une invention très notable et admirée, qui sert l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. The Glimmer Installation artistique sur train est une création très enviée qui éveille les désirs, apporte des sentiments positifs et suscite émerveillement et étonnement.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- As an extension of the "Tape art by tape that 2.0" exhibition, while commemorating one of the biggest annual events in Kaohsiung, Taiwan - The Taiwan Lantern Festival, TAPE THAT uses glow tapes, which absorb sunlight in the daytime and glow at night, and luminous foils, and turns a train into a moving lantern, the first train lights up without any electrical power in the world. The story of Kaohsiung is transformed into a series of murals on the train.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The 11-year accumulation of tape that is reflected in the glimmer of the train by applying multiple creative tape art techniques called "clash of styles". Nearly 110 square meters of tape covered the outside of the train. The interior was decorated with luminous foils and changing lights.
- Tags
- tape, art, train, Berlin, fundesign, tapethat, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Production Technology
- Self-glowing tapes, luminous tapes, and luminous foils.
- Design Challenge
- From the very beginning, we struggled to find the right light-emitting tape with just the right glue. In nearly half a year of testing, we identified the best performing material based on the light, shade, and time calculation and placed the tape outdoors to experience wind, rain, and sun, and based on the glue stability, degumming, and residual glue condition selected the appropriate glue mixing ratio.
- Research
- An emerging art form, tape art has its origins in experimental street art. As it is movable and temporary, it can be used on any surface it is glued to, so it can blend easily into urban environments. Due to the wide variety of tapes, there are also many ways to create art with them. Without the aid of other tools, tape is the easiest way to draw straight lines.
- Inspiration
- Tape that is in love with Kaohsiung after exploring the city, such as the sea, ports, and mountains, so they decide to put the beloved city on the train. You may observe rainbows in both the sky and the sea after rain, sparkling bays, scattered buildings, intricate traffic lines, and lighting patterns in the expression of well-developed high-end technology.
For the interior, the interlaced arteries and veins represent the complex transportation of the train system in the city. - Project Duration
- Between 2022/1/28 and 3/31, a train named "The glimmer of the train." runs in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- By transforming urban imagery, TAPE THAT transforms light-storing materials into its own creations, which bring out the essence of glimmering light flowing in the city. It's as if people can enter the train and become a part of the glimmering light. They gather and enter the train, then get off and disperse, like a creative medium, absorbing light in bright places and releasing it elsewhere.
- Team Members
- Carrie Chang/Curator of fundesign.tv
SK Chen/Curator of fundesign.tv
Adrian Dittert/Artist of tape that
Stefan Busch/Artist of tape that
Stephan Meissner/Artist of tape that
Thomas Meissner/Artist of tape that - Image Credits
- FunDesign.tv
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