Tear and Discover Príomh-Fheidhm: Suiteáil Ealaíne by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu

Tear and Discover Príomh-Fheidhm: Suiteáil Ealaíne by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Duais Umha A' Design Award in Ealain Fhìnealta agus Dealbhadh Stàladh Ealain Competition Category.

UmhaEalain Fhìnealta· 2022

Tear and Discover Príomh-Fheidhm: Suiteáil Ealaíne

by Jie Gao and Hengguang Wu

Duais Umha A' Design Award Winner in Ealain Fhìnealta Category

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The Design

About Tear and Discover Príomh-Fheidhm: Suiteáil Ealaíne

Téacs Leabhair: Is suiteáil ealaíne í Stróic agus Fionnaigh atá déanta as ceithre tháirge tí: callaire, lampa urláir, clog agus gaothaire. Tá gach réad fillte go hiomlán i leathar, ionas go bhfuil an fhuaim, an solas, an t-am agus an sreabhadh aeir i bhfolach. Chun feidhm a úsáid, ní mór don chuairteoir an clúdach leathair a ghearradh. Seasann an leathar agus a lipéid do luach siombalach na n-earraí, agus soláthraíonn na páirteanna laistigh an luach úsáide. Múnlaítear na clúdaigh go léir de láimh as leathar planda-shaolaithe 1.5 mm agus coinnítear i bhfeidhm iad le taca cruach dhosmálta. Cuireann an saothar ceist faoin gcaidreamh idir comhartha agus feidhm i dtomhaltas.

The Recognition

About the Duais Umha A' Design Award

Tha Tear and Discover Príomh-Fheidhm: Suiteáil Ealaíne air Duais Umha A' Design Award a bhuannachadh, aithneachadh gu math urramach a bheirear do dhealbhaidhean sònraichte a tha air an comharrachadh le cruthachalachd, innleachd agus geurchuis. Tha buannaichean Umha nan obraichean gu math sgileil agus gu sònraichte cruthachail a dhearbhas eòlas farsaing, mac-meanmna agus tapachd an luchd-dealbhaidh. Thathar an dùil gum bi Tear and Discover Príomh-Fheidhm: Suiteáil Ealaíne na nì air a bheil mòran meas, ion-mholta agus gràdhach, a tha gu sònraichte proifeiseanta agus ùr-ghnàthach. Tha an dealbhadh seo a bhuannaich Duais Umha A' Design Award a' cur nan cleachdaidhean as fheàrr ann an ealain, saidheans, dealbhadh agus teicneolas an gnìomh, agus tha e sàr-mhath airson an aire do mhion-fhiosrachadh. Bidh Tear and Discover Príomh-Fheidhm: Suiteáil Ealaíne a' sàsachadh fheumalachdan gu h-iongantach, a' suathadh ri miannan, a' tàladh faireachdainnean agus a' togail fiosrachd.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The work consists of four household products, speaker, floor lamp, clock, and fan, which are covered inside the leather. The leather and labels represent the symbolic value of the goods, while the functional components inside the leather deliver the use-value. This design emphasizes the contradiction between sign and function in the product consumption through a destructive interaction to 'cut' the signed cover and liberate the function.
Dimensions & Packaging: speaker,345*345*1427mm
floor lamp,372*305*1930mm
clock,455*140*100mm
fan，360*200*1610mm
Tags: art, craft, furniture, speaker, floor lamp, clock, fan
Production Technology: This work uses the leather wet shaping craft, the leather surface and stainless steel support form a strong visual tension. The whole set of products is all made of 1.5mm whole vegetable-tanned leather. After soaking for 8 hours, awakening the active protein of the leather and giving the leather better ductility. After it is wrapped on the shaping mold and shaped by hand, giving the product shapes a soft curve and organic sense.
Design Challenge: The most difficult part of this design is the expression of the mindset.
Firstly, how to express the idea through the design language? After many times discussion, The use of metaphorical forms of wrapping, highlighting and rupture, and contradictory interactions were confirmed.
Secondly, how to shape the leather into the form? This step took many material tests and prototypes before the final form was created.
Research: The work have taken the‘Consumption society’ as our research direction and the commodity as the object for our project. The design want to discuss the relationship between symbol, function, and commodity and reflected on the design. Through research the design aim to express the contradiction between symbolic value and use-value of products in the consumer society where signs are proliferating.
Inspiration: Living in the current era of consumption, symbolic consumption has gradually changed our mindset of on-demand consumption, and the functions of products have been obscured by the virtual signs created by capital. The endless pursuit of the sign has accelerated the waste of material. Therefore the work rethought the relationship among signs, functions, and design.
Project Duration: The project starts in November 2020 in Shanghai and is completed in 2021 in Shanghai, where it will be exhibited in June.
Operation Flow: The work covered by leather, functions are hidden inside——the sound is obscured, the light is covered, the time is hidden, the wind is blocked, in order to use the functions, the user needs to cut the leather through destructive interactions and destroy the complete leather the user's thoughts will be aroused during the interaction.
Patents: Jie Gao
Hengguang Wu
Team Members: Jie Gao
Hengguang Wu
Image Credits: Jie Gao, Hengguang Wu