Seize the laurels

The high-end brass cultural and creative art piece centers on blessings and encouragement. It meets the growing need for emotional support and ritualized blessings among students preparing for key examinations and individuals pursuing career advancement. Inspired by sunflowers, the piece uses intangible cultural heritage copper casting techniques. Designed as a lasting keepsake with aesthetic and emotional value, it fills a gap in the market for refined cultural and creative products with blessings, suitable for both gifting and personal use for milestones such as the national college entrance examination and postgraduate entrance examination, career promotions, and business openings.
The design draws inspiration from the phonetic association between Chinese characters “sunflower” and “champion,” transforming the sunflower’s natural posture of turning toward the sun and thriving in full bloom into a visual symbol of academic excellence and career achievement. It also takes Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers as an artistic prototype, reinterpreting its full vitality and passionate emotions through a three-dimensional brass form. Through Chinese intangible cultural heritage copper casting techniques, the Western artistic image is reimagined, bringing new life to a familiar visual symbol. The piece can be placed on a Buddha-hand base as static desktop decoration symbolizing protection and blessings, or paired with a brooch attachment as a wearable personal accessory.
In terms of materials and craftsmanship, the piece is made primarily from brass using intangible cultural heritage copper casting techniques. The surface is finely gold-plated, with sparkling zircon accents at the sunflower center. It preserves the weight and texture of brass and enhances elegance through refined metallic sheen and zircon brilliance, achieving a harmonious balance between traditional craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetics.