Life Forms of Colors Kev Kos Duab Dijitaw by Yuko Suzuki

Life Forms of Colors Kev Kos Duab Dijitaw by Yuko Suzuki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Nyiaj in Tsim Kev Tsim Tawm, Kev Siv Algorithm, Parametric thiab AI Pab Tsim Competition Category.

NyiajKev Tsim Tawm· 2025

Life Forms of Colors Kev Kos Duab Dijitaw

by Yuko Suzuki

Client: Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT)

A' Design Award Nyiaj Winner in Kev Tsim Tawm Category

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The Design

About Life Forms of Colors Kev Kos Duab Dijitaw

Txoj hauj lwm no yog ib qho duab txav uas qhia pom cov txheej txheem ntawm cov pixels raug rhuav tshem thiab rov tsim dua tshiab. Lub tswv yim rau txoj hauj lwm no pib thaum tus kws ua yeeb yam, ib tug kws luam duab, xav tsim ib daim duab toj roob hauv pes luam thiab xav paub seb nws puas tuaj yeem ua kom cov xim sib cais los ntawm kev sau cov lej. Cov pixels zoo li cov hlwb, txav mus los tsim cov duab thiab xim tshiab, qhia txog cov tswv yim Nyiv ntawm Kasane (txheej txheej) thiab Zurashi (kev hloov chaw). Lawv kuj sawv cev rau ntau yam kev hloov pauv uas ib tug neeg tuaj yeem dhau, qhia txog kev sib txawv ntau yam thiab kev hloov pauv tau yooj yim thoob plaws hauv txoj hauj lwm, thiab xav txog qhov chaw sib ntsib ntawm kev lig kev cai thiab thev naus laus zis.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Nyiaj

Life Forms of Colors Kev Kos Duab Dijitaw yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Nyiaj, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev tshaj li qub uas muab rau cov qauv tsim qib siab, zoo nkauj thiab ua rau neeg xav tsis thoob. Cov neeg yeej Nyiaj yog cov haujlwm ci ntsa iab heev thiab tsim tshiab heev uas qhia txog kev paub, kev txawj ntse thiab kev ntse ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. Life Forms of Colors Kev Kos Duab Dijitaw xav tias yuav yog ib qho haujlwm zoo kawg nkaus uas tsim rau qhia, tshaj lij heev thiab tsim tshiab tob. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Nyiaj no yog ib qho khoom tsim uas pom tseeb heev thiab neeg qhuas uas pab tau thiab nthuav dav ciam teb ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis. Life Forms of Colors Kev Kos Duab Dijitaw yog ib qho khoom tsim uas neeg coob xav tau, uas ua rau xav, coj kev xav zoo thiab ua rau xav tsis thoob thiab xav paub.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This animation breaks down an image into pixels, reconstructing and transforming them repeatedly. The pixels emerge like cells, moving and forming new shapes and colors, embodying the Japanese concepts of "Kasane (layering)" and "Zurashi (shifting)." This reflects how living beings shape the world, either by choice or by following the flow. The ever-changing forms symbolize human transformation and the cycle of life and death.
Dimensions & Packaging: LED screen 4m × 4m, 10 minutes 30 seconds
Tags: Generative Art, Coding
Production Technology: This work was created entirely in a programming language called Processing.
It is made up of multiple animations that change from one shape to the next, linked together.
Design Challenge: The most difficult and exciting part was figuring out how to connect all of the different shapes through coding.
It was impossible to create all of the animations in one document, so I divided the whole thing into four scenes, created the animation, and connected them using video editing software.
Research: This design research explores an animation technique that uses coding to break down and reconstruct pixels.
Through this process, the artist began to feel as if the pixels symbolized the workings of humans and the world. The pixels are like cells, but at the same time, they also seem like the individual people that make up the world. This created a sense of moving between the micro and macro worlds.
Through the use of digital technology, this research offers new methods of visual expression in art, business and society, and suggests the possibility of redefining cultural value.
Inspiration: The impetus for creating this work began when the artist, a printmaker, wanted to create a landscape print, and wondered whether it would be possible to achieve color separation through coding. This was the beginning of an attempt to incorporate the physical acts of producing a multi-color woodblock print - "color separation of the print," "overprinting, " and "rolling the paper" - into code, and it developed into the more abstract idea of "creating a three-dimensional print."
Project Duration: This work was exhibited as part of the CCBT x Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2024 "Poems in Code: Generative Art Today and Programming Generated Moving Image" project held in Tokyo in February 2024.
Operation Flow: This work is an animation that depicts the process of pixels being broken down and reconstructed. As you watch, the pixels move and transform, creating new shapes. The changes in the pixels symbolize the potential for people to transform in various ways, and this diversity and fluidity is expressed throughout the work.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Ryuichi Maruo, Life-forms of colors, 2024, Photo courtesy Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT].
Image #2: Photographer Ryuichi Maruo, Life-forms of colors, 2024, Photo courtesy Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT].
Video Credits: Photographer Ryuichi Maruo, Life-forms of colors, 2024, Video courtesy Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT].