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Design Count

Design Count featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

L and S Arno Series

L and S Arno Series provides tailored made illumination for users playing the piano. Its illuminance for piano keys is more than 300 lx, reaching AA-grade illumination. Together with full-spectrum LED, it can provide illumination similar to sunlight. It integrates an OLED display, thermo-hygrograph, and metronome. It has innovative metronome sounds that can simulate the real mechanical beats of studios. It also supports multi-angle rotary illumination for all-round illumination and applies to electric pianos, upright pianos, grand pianos, and other types of pianos.

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Cinqueterre

A friendly designed aluminum lamp with an integrated USB Charging Hub, shaped like a house, with the purpose of keeping all your devices in one place, providing multiple short and hidden USB plugs and a wireless station, eliminating the hassle of searching for electrical sockets. Additionally, the lamp is equipped with a gutter and hooks to facilitate the organization of personal items such as pens, jewelry, or keys. Cinqueterre, by disguising its objective, aims to create an object that resembles a decorative piece rather than an electronic device.

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Longfang Bridge

Located in Nantang Cultural Tourism Zone and Wenruitang River Scenic Belt in Wenzhou, Longfang Bridge is a critical project for integrating vehicle and pedestrian traffic as well as expressing Tanghe Culture. Our design expresses spatial hierarchy and local culture through the contrast of lighting design colour tones and brightness between main bridge and pedestrian bridges. Lighting integrates with the structure and merges the bridge with the quiet, peaceful and romantic atmosphere of Jiangnan canal town, turning Longfang bridge into an iconic local tourist attraction over Wenruitang River.

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Zero

The variety of this product carries light and time, water, and the transparency of plasticity which makes it able to see and touch the time. The pointer will splash the water and cause small ripples per second, like every recurring event that is being triggered. In a whole circle of time, it finds the uniqueness and beauty in daily life from every perspective of the water. It uses 100 percent recyclable glass from daily life, as the saying goes it ends at zero and is born at zero.

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Lei Light Reflection

A lighting product combined with aroma diffuser and a mirror. With three color types and four levels of dimming, the product contributes to customize a variety of situations at personal, small-scaled spaces. It is an innovative design that utilizes reflected light inside the oval-shaped frame, creating a soft and beautiful light from any angle. The refined aluminum body is finished by superior craftsmanship. The diffuser uses an international patent pending technology utilizing capillary action.

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Radiance of Nature with Urushi

Derived from sustainably harvested natural sap in Japan, Urushi lacquer is applied to bamboo creating an immersive space amongst tree-like forms. Unlike Western culture, where people remove shadows from space, this project intentionally creates shadows as a part of aesthetic beauty. The columns of Urushi can reflect a candle-like light in a dark room, giving off a luminous glow that gives a sense of the depth of darkness. The unique properties of shape and light create an enchanting interplay of light reflections and shadows evoking a microcosmic space reminiscent of nature.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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