Artist Béla Bezold Creates Sculptural Eyewear Inspired by Natural Processes and Evolution
By
Ayla Angelos
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Summary
Béla Bezold, a Design Academy Eindhoven graduate and artist, creates sculptural eyewear inspired by natural processes like lava flows and symbiosis. His designs merge art and product design, with pieces that resemble raw nature and explore themes of evolution, transformation, and humanity's relationship with the natural world. The article profiles his creative philosophy, background growing up in various countries including Tanzania, and his approach to design that sees all human-made objects as fundamentally connected to nature.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledEverything that we consume once belonged to nature and will eventually return
So when I see a chair, a house, a phone, a lamp or a pair of glasses, I see raw nature
I became obsessed with what I now call 'symbiosis' - the idea that everything is connected and that we are all part of a larger system
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