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Infinite Wave Lighting Installation by Chao Lin Cheng Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Lighting Projects and Light Art Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Chao Lin Cheng for lighting projects and light art design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Infinite Wave Lighting Installation by Chao Lin Cheng, designed for Yuejin Art Museum & Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Lighting Projects and Light Art Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Infinite Wave Lighting Installation
Infinite Wave is a design that materializes the flows of water and the variation of time in the Yuejin Port of Tainan, Taiwan. The installation takes on varied appearances as day transitions into night, where artificial and natural light cross paths, guiding viewers to perceive changes in both space and time. As moonlight slowly emerges, crimson rays reminiscent of blood permeate the artwork, allowing the contours to come into clarity. By the dead of night, as artificial light spreads across the installation, multidimensional light waves intertwine once again in space.
Award Record
With this recognition, Chao Lin Cheng is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Lighting Projects and Light Art Design Award
The A' Lighting Project Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing outstanding lighting designs by lighting designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting project designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include light art, light installations, street lighting, light sculptures, light projections and landscape lighting. Awarded light art designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/lighting-projects
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://desingers.org/162966
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162966
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162966
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/356295
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://chaolin.cargo.site
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Infinite Wave Lighting Installation
- Function
- Lighting Installation
- Category
- Lighting Projects and Light Art Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Arts
- Colors
- Dark Slate Blue, Black, Teal, Steel Blue and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Yuejin Art Museum & Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chao Lin Cheng
- Country
- Great Britain
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162966
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer FIXER Photographic Studio, 2024; Photographer FIXER Photographic Studio, 2024 Video Credits: Chao Lin Cheng
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Infinite Wave takes on different appearances as day transitions into night, where artificial and natural light interact, guiding viewers to perceive the changes in space and time. As moonlight slowly emerges, crimson rays reminiscent of blood gradually permeate the entire installation, sharpening its contours from blur to clarity. By the dead of night, as artificial light spreads across the installation, multidimensional light waves intertwine once again in space.
- Inspiration
- The shape of Infinite Wave concretes the flows of water and the variation of time in the Yuejin Port of Tainan, Taiwan. The lighting installation is crafted from interwoven optical fibers, transforming light from a physical phenomenon into a tangible structure. In the artwork, light serves simultaneously as a medium for recording time and as building material. Each optical fiber, varying in length, delineates the diffusion range of light and captures its trajectory through inherent vectors.
- Research
- The Infinite Wave is a lighting installation based on the Mobius strip folding structure. It focuses on visual changes in topology and explores the interactions between lines, surfaces, and volumes. The installation utilizes lines to maximize visual impact, and uses computational tools to calculate and assemble the structure. In addition, the design also seeks to further integrate the manufacturing technology in Taiwan by building a connection between art and local industry.
- Challenge
- In this project, artist Cheng Chao Lin uses the optical fibers as the main structure. For the first time, the light becomes attachable in the pavilion, creating the expression of lighting as well as connecting the whole structure. Based on the geometric research, three-dimensional laser cutting technology is used to determine the orientation of each metal unit, ensuring precise angles and locations before the units are accurately assembled.
- Realization and Technology
- This artwork is produced through computational design tools, laser cutting machines, and optical fibers materials.
- Operation and Interaction
- In the depths of the night, red beams of light traverse the void, resembling a guiding light slowly revealing the transformation of the earth. As wanders immerse themselves in this infinite geometric illusion, multidimensional light waves intertwine in space, guiding them in countless directions while simultaneously causing them to gradually lose their way. Through continuous exploration, consciousness will eventually return from blur to clarity.
- Project Duration and Location
- The artwork was exhibited from January 2024 to March 2024 in Tainan, Taiwan.
- Specifications
- Width 4,000mm x Depth 4,200mm x Height 2,500mm
- Keywords
- Pavilion, Sculpture, Optical Fibers, Interactive Art, Lighting Installation, Art Installation
