Music composition
Nature Knows is Bito’s concept for this year’s ceremony, emphasizing the importance of cycles in nature and sustainability in design. The opening video at the ceremony echoes this concept, featuring a girl who finds pollution, and sets out on a journey with the pollution through jungles, oceans, and outer space. In the end, she plants the pollution in the ground as a seed that grows into tree, representing a cycle in nature. The opening video’s message to designers at the ceremony is to promote sustainability in design.
For this year’s ceremony, the Awards organizer transformed “2020” into a symbol that represents an opportunity for change, hoping to encourage designers and businesses alike to reflect on the existing model and rethink the meaning of the creative design, so as to seek out a more sustainable future together at this critical juncture in time that marks the fulcrum between the old and the new.
《Swingphony》| Taiwan Pavilion Showreel
Taiwanese pavilion 'Swingphony' at the 2021 London Design Biennale
Taipei-based experience design studio Bito’s ‘Swingphony’ is a symphony of metronomes produced for the Taiwanese pavilion at the 2021 London Design Biennale.
Bito’s designer Chin-Ho Kao visited more than 50 Buddhist and Taoist temples in preparation for designing the exhibit. We took inspiration from all the colors, sights and sounds discovered during their six-month-long trip, which took them to 20 different towns and villages across Taiwan. Incense smoke, lanterns and the rhythm of chanting became the main inspirations.
The resulting exhibition is a combination of experience design by Bito, spatial design by Bird Hsu and music by composer Cheng-Ye Han. In addition, Ta Chung Liu was commissioned to create the metronome for the exhibit, drawing on the form of praying hands and wielding a stick of incense in place of the pendulum. All four elements were then synchronized to produce a symphony, which resonates with a sense of mindfulness and serenity.
In contrast with last year's video, this year’s video to the Golden Pin Design Award ceremony is colorful and up lifting. It reflects the importance of cycles in nature, and sustainability in design. Designers must address environmental issue and incorporate sustainability into their work.
Tzolk’in Light form Peppercorn
Time is like a form of art. Time is not meant to regulate us, but is a holistic and natural set of energies and rules. Tzolk’in is the basic cycle of Mayan calendar. The work re-interprets the rules of time and the energy of natural operation through the Mayan calendar. The work presents a stereoscopic vision and sound in space to express the energy of stored life, and presents the transition in the four levels: construction, frequency modulation, synchronization and regression. Through the performances of points, lines and planes in the three-dimensional space, it applies the concept of the Mayan calendar to symbolize the opening of the Milky Way. Just like the moon, a new light is ready to shine through infinite darkness.