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Alive Design Object by Marcele Kuliesiute

Alive Design Object

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020

Scanning this square-format image from the outside edges inward, the listener encounters an encompassing field of forest canopy viewed from directly above, with treetops filling the entire frame in varied textures and colors. The forest presents in shades of green ranging from warm yellow-green like spring lettuce to deep emerald like shadowed moss, with occasional darker passages suggesting depth between tree crowns. Approximately one-third into the image from all edges, positioned precisely at center, rests a circular object with a deep blue color reminiscent of twilight sky or deep ocean water. This circular form measures perhaps thirty centimeters in implied diameter, though scale remains deliberately ambiguous against the aerial forest view. The object's surface carries hundreds of small raised bumps arranged in spiraling patterns radiating from center, similar to the seed arrangement one might feel on a dried sunflower head, with the texture suggesting a satisfying tactility like running fingers across a gentle stippled surface. The blue deepens toward saturated navy at the object's slightly raised rim, while the central area catches light to reveal subtle dimensional variation across the patterned surface. The temperature contrast feels pronounced: the forest below suggests humid warmth, dappled summer air rich with photosynthetic abundance, while the blue object evokes cooling presence, like a pool of still water or a smooth ceramic vessel brought from a cooler interior space. No human figures appear. The forest extends uniformly in all directions to frame edges, creating sense of vast continuous canopy with this single designed object placed deliberately within. Light falls evenly from above as midday sun would illuminate, creating minimal shadows but allowing the forest's three-dimensional canopy structure and the object's raised surface pattern to register through subtle value variations. The overall impression balances precision and wildness, manufactured intention and natural profusion.

Design is created from the urge of wanting more natural interaction in the surrounded environment. 'Alive' is inspired by water - the foundation and source of all life. Once Marcele Kuliesiute crossed the biophilic design definition, she tried to apply the aspects of it to the design. It says that rhythm or movement, perceived in nature, creates a strong impression and a positive impact on the people. The designer created 'Alive' for public interiors, offices, and other public spaces, to provide the vitality of the environment and to remind of and nurture Mother Nature.