NEW LONDON FABULOUS (IT) movimento

Secondo Adam Nathaniel Furman l’educazione al design “fa il lavaggio del cervello” agli studenti per quanto riguarda l’uso del colore, dei patterns e della decorazione, ma un gruppo di designer londinesi sta superando questi pregiudizi: Adam ha chiamato il movimento “New London Fabulous” e lo ha descritto come “design e architettura come ricerca visiva e culturale, altamente estetica, sensuale e celebrativa di culture miste”.

Altri designer londinesi citati come parte del gruppo sono Yinka Ilori, Camille Walala e Morag Mysercough, che secondo lui stanno rovesciando il pregiudizio radicato nell’establishment del design. Tutti e quattro i designer usano colori e motivi audaci nelle loro opere: i mobili di Yinka Ilori, gli interni e le collaborazioni di architettura presentano combinazioni di colori decorativi; Camille Walala, inizialmente textile designer, è nota per la sua grafica colorata, che applica a interni, architettura e progetti urbani (fortemente ispirati al gruppo italiano Memphis). Il lavoro di Morag Myerscough, formatosi come graphic designer, è similmente caratterizzato da un uso vivace di colori, motivi e tipografia. Il loro lavoro “seleziona e sceglie e mescola da periodi diversi e guarda indietro” dice Adam.

Il movimento non è un revival postmoderno, ma la necessità di riscoprire appunto colori, motivi e decorazioni. Le cose stanno cambiando “molti giovani queer e studenti stanno entrando nel settore. La composizione della professione del design si sta radicalmente trasformando. La nuova generazione che sta iniziando a nascere ora sarà così bella. È un periodo molto bello e interessante per l’architettura britannica “. Interessato a queste affermazioni, ho contattato Adam per fargli alcune domande sul movimento:

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Democratic Monument by Adam Nathaniel Furman, 2017

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Sebbene chiamato New LONDON Fabulous, il movimento muove interessanti critiche e potrebbe essere un grido di cambiamento nel mondo dell’architettura, sia educativo che professionale, ma anche una “contestualizzazione della pratica”, in termini di culture, persone e storia. È uno “statement”. Pertanto, come si posiziona questo movimento rispetto all’architettura e all’istruzione internazionali? E potrebbe essere d’ispirazione per città come Milano, New York o persino metropoli asiatiche? Inoltre, in un momento in cui ci confrontatiamo con statue e architetture che celebrano il passato, questo movimento può riscoprire la storia in un modo nuovo, attraverso l’architettura?

Adam pensa che in relazione all’architettura internazionale, il movimento voglia parlare al suo contesto locale come una confutazione della vecchia cultura, che è caratterizzata dalle perpetuate norme estetiche che sopprimono la differenza nei nostri spazi urbani condivisi. Qualcosa in cui la professione di architetto non è stata solo complice, ma è stata attivamente un agente chiave.

Il problema è il controllo accademico dell’ “estetica professionale e del dogma contestuale basato sulla pianificazione che perpetua le condizioni esistenti senza possibilità di nuovo simbolismo o rappresentazione estetica spaziale, che è comune in così tanti luoghi nel mondo e non è sostenibile. Le nostre città non incarnano, non ci rappresentano nè riflettono economicamente, strutturalmente, ma ancora più importante – come ci mostrano le statue – non riflettono simbolicamente la società contemporanea “.

Il movimento riguarda anche la storia: ogni generazione la riscrive, le nostre città sono in costante cambiamento e devono mutare per riflettere come è cambiata la società, come vediamo il nostro passato, come apprezziamo il presente e la nostra visione del futuro.
Nonostante ciò, New London Fabulous può ovviamente essere d’ispirazione per qualsiasi città come uno stile puramente estetico, ma è più rilevante per le città che abbracciano il loro multiculturalismo e vogliono rifletterlo nell’effettivo tessuto fisico delle loro strade e dei loro edifici.

New London Fabulous è una boccata d’aria fresca: non si tratta solo di colori e trame, ma di creare luoghi che rappresentano noi, la città e le differenze che ci circondano. Riscoprire la città come il luogo multiculturale di incontro in cui viene celebrata la diversità.

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According to Adam Nathaniel Furman, design education “brainwashes” students into rejecting colour, pattern and ornament, but a group of London designers is overcoming this bias against their use: Adam named the movement “New London Fabulous” and described it as “design and architecture as a visual and cultural pursuit, which is highly aesthetic, sensual and celebratory of mixed cultures”.

He cited London designers Yinka Ilori, Camille Walala and Morag Mysercough as other key figures in the movement, which he said were overturning entrenched bias in the design establishment. All four designers use bold colours and patterns in their work: Yinka Ilori’s furniture, interiors and architecture collaborations feature decorative colour schemes; initially a textile designer, Camille Walala is known for her colourful graphics, which she applies to interiors, architecture and urban projects (strongly inspired by Italian Memphis group). Trained as a graphic designer, Morag Myerscough’s work is similarly characterized by lively use of colour, pattern and typography. Their work “picks and chooses and mixes from different periods and it does look back” Adam said.

The movement is not a postmodern revival, but the need to re-discover colours, pattern and ornament. Things are changing, “a lot of young, queer practitioners and students coming into the industry. The makeup of the design profession is radically transforming. The new generation that is starting to come up now is going to be so cool. It’s a very, very beautiful and interesting period for British architecture.” Interested in these statements, we contacted Adam to ask him a few questions about the movement:

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Although named New LONDON Fabulous, it moves interesting critiques and it might be a scream for change in the Architecture world, both educational and professional, but also a “contextualization of the practice”, in terms of culture, people and history. It’s a statement. Therefore, how is this movement positioned in relation to international architecture and education? And could it be inspiring for city such as Milan, or New York or even Asian metropolis? Moreover, in a moment in which we are confronted with statues and architecture which celebrate the past, can this movement re-discover history through architecture in a new way?

Adam thinks that in relation to international architecture, the movement is positioned to speak to its local context as a rebuttal of the old culture of perpetuated aesthetic norms that suppress difference in our shared urban spaces, something that the architecture profession has not only been complicit in, but has been an active key agent of.

The problem is the academic control of “professional aesthetics and planning-based contextual dogma perpetuating existing conditions with no possibility of new symbolism or spatial aesthetic representation, is common in so many places in the world, and its not sustainable. Our cities do not embody, represent or reflect us either economically, structurally, but hugely importantly – as the statues show – nor do they reflect contemporary society symbolically.”

The movement is also about history: every generation re-writes it, our cities are constantly changing, and they must mutate to reflect how society has changed, the way we both now see our past, what we value in the present, and our vision of the future.
Despite this, it can obviously be inspiring for any city as a purely aesthetic style, but it’s most relevant to cities that embrace their multiculturalism, and want to reflect that in be actual makeup & physical fabric of their streets, and their buildings..

New London Fabulous is a breath of fresh air, it’s not just about colors and textures, but about creating cities that represent us, our environment, and our diversities. Rediscover the city as the multicultural meeting place where heterogeneity is celebrated.

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Alexis Dornier studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts after which he relocated to New York City to work as an architectural designer for Asymptote Architecture, OMA-NY and Rex between 2004-2007. In 2013 he decided to leave his western life behind and relocate to Ubud Bali where he began consulting on locally designed and built architectural projects. What began as architectural consultancy quickly evolved into independent project designs. Dornier is now based in Ubud, working both locally and internationally on a mixture of residential and commercial projects.

One of his latest project is the River House, a five bedroom residential home located in Pererenan, Bali. Private spaces are grouped into a cubistic volume that seemingly hovers above the living rooms and the garden. An expansive pool forms a strong vector into the adjacent rice field – a graphic juxtaposition to the first floor’s horizontal configuration.

The continuation of Bali’s beautiful landscape into the inside of the building is one of the key for the River House design: the studio embedded the existing topography and used it as the over-arching feature for a three dimensional experience. Different passages, walkways and spaces lead through the house.

They used reclaimed timber and locally sourced sandstone to create surfaces and textures that evoke a sense of timelessness, firmness and reference back to Bali’s vernacular building culture. A palm tree forest, banana- and bodhi trees surround the building and make it part of the silhouette consisting of rolling hills and lush rice fields. The side and front elevations of the volume are rendered by a wooden lattice. This changes the scale of the arrangement into a more abstract object, rather than a traditional home with windows.

Visit Alexis Dornier page to know more about his projects!
Photography by Annyck Benth

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Originally from a small, northern town in England to the iconic streets of New York, Ben Fearnley is a highly skilled, professional CG artist, creative thinker and visual story teller. His versatile talent and broad skillset within the 3D world allows him to work across a wide scope of mediums such as illustration, typography, animation, graphic design and digital art within the various fields of work ranging from advertising to film, editorial and publishing.

‘In Case Of Emergency’ is a self-initiated art project. In this new series of illustrations Ben reimagines traditional emergency equipment, changing the focus to be based upon our everyday eating and drinking habits. He explains the concept further: “With this project I played on people’s cravings adding a humorous twist to what’s typically interpreted in a serious manner.”

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Destroyers/builders is a Brussels based design studio, initially founded by Linde Freya Tangelder. With a focus on materiality the studio strives for sensory relevance and cultural value in detail and bigger scale. Their works have a sculptural and architectural character, but are always on the edge of contemporary material use and traditional crafts. The studio takes on projects that range from commissions to self-initiated projects, and extends across the realms of both product and interior design.

The series, realized for Valerie Objects, is made extracting the small and seemingly banal elements of architecture such as bricks, joints and tubes – translated into functional elements. These objects are made of brick, porcelain and steel: an interesting mix of industrial and valuable materials.

“I zoom in on the elements that most architects try to keep out of sight,” Freya says.

The objects are available through Valerie Objects

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Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist Cecilia Paredes creates striking photographic artworks by camouflaging her own body against intricate patterns.

“For each portrait she hangs boldly printed fabrics as the backdrop, which she then matches either with her painted skin, custom clothing, or both. Her torso, arms, and face fade into the background, as the curvature of her body and brown hair become some of the only indicators of her presence.”

Visit Cecilia Paredes‘ page for more portraits!

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Christiaan Endeman is a young 3D artist and motion designer working on contemporary designs and animations in 3D space. He writes about him: “Being a perfectionist at heart, I am only satisfied when my work has pushed my boundaries of creation.”

TheManDesigns is an ongoing project in which he collects his personal works, born out of his fascination, characterized by technology, textures and a surreal atmosphere. Christiaan’s aim is “to make engaging visual works, transforming the ordinary into the exceptional. Whether it be static or moving images, I always try to instill a sense of reflection and meaning.”

Visit TheManDesigns to see more engaging works!

Graciela Iturbide is an acclaimed Mexican photographer living and working in Mexico City. Her son Mauricio Rocha, whose father was Mexican architect Manuel Rocha Diaz, together with Gabriela Carrillo founded the Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo. The Taller helped to create a studio space for Iturbide, just a few steps away from her home in Barrio del Niño Jesús, Mexico City.

The work of Taller de Arquitectura approaches architecture in a conscious way, attempting “to provide a response to the place in which we live, our places, our economic and social situations” and to “translate the traditions and materials of the places in which we operate in a contemporary way, not through fashionable forms or fireworks, but with silence, space, the experience of emptiness”, as they explained in an interview with Interni.

The studio created for Iturbide is the evident result of their approach, a three storey building in which the use of exposed bricks simultaneously offer warmth and the experience of emptiness. The material changes its formal quality depending on its usage, from a herringbone floor to interlocking walls, the studio of bricks is aesthetically harmonious, thanks to its detailed design.

All images © Rafael Gamo

Suprematika (previously on WeVux) is a branding agency, the second one in Russia. They make complex visual branding systems with a branched structure and simple and bright signs.

Recently they realize an ambitious rebranding project for Bushe. Since 1999, the company from Saint-Petersburg opened 41 cafes (one in Moscow and 40 in Saint-Petersburg), launched mini-bakeries called “Warm bread, and under a blanket” and a perspective project – coffee laboratory with wine bar called CoffeeLab. The network was expanding and developing actively, so the previous identity didn’t no longer represent values of the company.

The 2018 rebranding project tried to create Bushe’s new visual language using images and spaces of Saint-Petersburg.

“We attempted to put a sign of equality between the city and Bushe by a new corporative style, because the major part of their deals is dedicated to Saint-Petersburg: the team works with various street projects, musical and dancing festivals, museum exhibitions. They even directed two films about the city they love” explained Vladimir Lifanov, Suprematika creative director.

Bushe’s philosophy is expressed in a simple formula “Eats/ It’s real” and prefers the content rather than the external gloss. A new laconic brand identity was created following this philosophy: it’s based on city textures, mellow palette and black&white scripts. The color palette of interiors is supported by colourful graffitis and screens inspired by Saint-Petersburg street-art. Visual emphasis of city environment will be used for all kinds of printed products – posters, souvenirs, package, cards – and outdoor ads.

Outdoor ads of Bushe will step outside the habitual advertising posters and will engage the whole city space including the fronts of the houses. Using screens bushe changed the details of the environment and made them resembling some eatable objects like a cup of black coffee, baguette or cake.

Bushe team: founder and owner Oleg Lega, CMO Roman Pevzner, Project director Eugenia Pes’yakova

Suprematika team: creative director Vladimir Lifanov, project manager Marina Lokteeva, designers Vladimir Lifanov, Eugenia Maximova, Valeria Vaizehovskaya, PR-managers Marina Lokteeva, Ksenia Lipilina

Leonardo Betti, AKA Leonardoworx is a talented Italian digital artist based in Florence (previously on WeVux). During his studies he was able to find a strong and original way to express himself. As sound designer and motion graphic designer he has worked for fashion brands – Armani, to name one – and for animation studios. Commissioned by european art galleries, museums and concept stores, he also created short movies and interactive installations using Max/Msp/Jitter.

In this gallery you will find a selection of artworks from two different project, Rooms and Lost Tape Summer 2018, both of them personal experiments by Leonardoworx. To see more project visit his behance!

With over ten years of experience in the visual effects industry ranging from motion pictures, graphic designing, advertisements and broadcasting, T.P. Vineeth is the co-founder & Creative Director of Adaar VFX Pvt. Ltd an Indian award winning VFX, Animation & Design Company set up to evolve and create world-class stunning visuals for all media platform.

FORMAS in one of T.P. Vineeth personal project that you can find on his behance page, a series of illustration realized with Cinema 4D and Octane. Visit his page to see more beautiful digital art!

Personal Collection 02 is a collaborative project by Brendi LW and Bryan Plust, published both on Behance and on their online portofolios.

Brendi LW is a 3D artist and motion designer while Bryan Plust is a multidisciplinary designer who “enjoys drinking his meals and sorting french fries by length.” Applying graphic design methodologies to 3D illustration and animation, they joined their forces and skills to create amazing collections. Surreal images depicting organic shapes, sparkling beings resembling alien creatures. The duo also collaborated on other collections, among them also Divine Beings and Everydays November 2017.

To know more visit Brendi LW’s and Bryal Plust’s websites!

Aaron Denton is an Indiana-based designer that works primarily on poster designs and album artwork for bands.

Since his early 20’s he has been booking shows for bands and making flyers to post around town. While studying at Indiana University, a student gave him the Adobe suite for free and that’s when he started to get into Illustrator and Photoshop. Talking about his creative process, Aaron usually starts drawing and manipulating things on the computer until something strikes him. He has not a specific technique, a lot of his designs come from just “messing around” and experimenting with shapes, colors and texts. As for inspiration, he studied Art History, spending four years just looking at art and not making it, helping him to develop a better eye. However, his favourite artists are Kandinsky, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Miro, Barnett Newman and Bridget Riley.

Follow Aaron on Instagram for more retro-infused style posters!

Xuan Loc Xuan (1989) is a freelance artist that lives and works in Ho Chi Minh.

His illustrations combines soft colors and textures, digital watercolors in which nature and men are the great protagonists. The presence of man is sometimes perceived by the elements represented, others are explicit without being intrusive.

More on Xuan’s behance and Instagram!

Born in February 1988, Thai illustrator Tanawat Sakdawisarak has graduated from Assumption University, in Visual Communication Arts. Comics, video games and pop music are his artistic background and they’re still his first source of inspiration.

His works are characterized by a surreal style, scenes from a dream characterized by distorted proportions, bright colors and sharp geometries. The illustrations are full of references and his style captures our minds. His pieces ended up on magazines such as GQ Thailand, Whimsey People, and Lexus Magazine, among others.

Visit his behance or his facebook page, Bloody Hell Big Head

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Milan-based architect and designer Patricia Urquiola, (previously on WeVux) collaborated with Laufen Bathrooms to create a collection of basins and sinks characterized by innovation and elegance. The use of the Saphir Keramik allowed for a reduced thickness in the products, without renouncing to the typical resistance of ceramics.

The collection is distinguished by its thinness and uniformity, which give lightness to the weight. The cannettata texture covers the edges of the products, accentuating the volumes severity, and allowing for an unconventional refinement. The rigorous geometries accentuate the plans and enhance the movements of the water: the inclined surface of the fund leads toward a transverse slot which hides the discharge with a simple gesture.

Common Curiosity is a collaboration between Birmingham based Paul Felton and London located Alex Woolley, previously creative director and design director in the same office. After one year of freelancing they decided to start their own studio working with branding and graphic design projects, creating colorful identities and communication material. Here’s a selection of works from Common Curiosity

Andreas Wannerstedt is a Swedish motion designer currently living and working in Stockholm; he creates mind blowing animation composed by textured geometries and surreal elements. Andreas says about his work “I craft unique 2D & 3D animations and designs beautiful websites among other things. During the last 12 years I’ve been working with clients such as Adidas, Ikea, Coca-Cola, Spotify, Absolut Vodka, Red Bull, Google etc.”

Visit his page for more animations!

Super Local is a Dutch design studio that collaborates with local communities to solve problems and design new solutions. “90% of the world population is lacking the financial capacity for traditional design, but does have a need for well-designed products and insightful solution. We are passionate problem solvers, story tellers and fixers and our human-centered approach is hands-on and based on collaboration with local communities, organizations and partners.”

Together with Zanzibari craftspeople, Super Local has recently created a selection of furniture objects using terrazzo created from discarded glass. This project was inspired by a trip to Zanzibar — an island off the east coast of Africa — that Super Local visited back in 2015. The lack of recycling opportunities and the huge amount of glass waste led Super Local designers, Luc van Hoeckel and Pim van Baarsen, to a creative solution. Teaming up with local makers, the pair began making products using glass bottles collected from hotels. The second step of this recycling initiative is titled “Trending Terrazzo”, a collection of homewares available to buy locally in Zanzibar.

All images © Jeroen van der Wielen and Super Local

Hansje van Halem is an Amsterdam-based designer, she runs her studio since 2003, after she graduated from Gerrit Rietvield Academie. She has great love for typography, book design and all other types of printed matter. Besides creating letters, textures and patterns (digitally and manually) she loves to structure information and solve editorial problems with typography and materialization.

Her works is based on a continuous experimentation to implement intricate graphics tricks and optical illusions in her designs. She has been developing several different pattern styles, embracing curved lines and contrasting colors as openly as she does with perpendicular lines and psychedelic color palettes. Hansje works both digitally and by hand to create her designs and she even created a book containing over a decade’s worth of sketches, structures, letters and rejected ideas in the process, to see them visit her page.

Follow Hansje also on Instagram!

In collaboration with Italian designer Federico Floriani, Fernando Laposse realized Saponaceous, the results of an experimental research on the process of saponification with the aim to transform a raw material into form, colour and texture.

The duo collected refried oil from fish and chips shops and fat trimmings from butchers in Tottenham, North London; through an exothermic reaction, following the addition of lye, fat is transformed into a beautiful, good smelling soap. These were then filtered and saponified with lye and a mix of natural pigments to create a series of geometrical sculptures. The functional and interactive objects have been sculpted, molded and machined out of solid blocks of soap, presenting the potential qualities of this waste product.

The hair vase is a reference to the African tradition of protecting a household from bad spirits by dipping a horse tail into black soap. This soap was produced from a large block of pig lard soap mixed with charcoal and turned on the lathe to create the structure and base. All pieces should invite the user to reflect on the concept of wholesomeness by demonstrating the topics of personal hygiene, zero waste and purification.

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Bower is a New York City-based studio with a multidisciplinary approach to contemporary furniture and product design. Through a free, experimental process, the intent of Bower’s work is to bring unique and unexpected objects into people’s lives. They recently collaborated with Studio Proba, founded in 2013 by Alex Proba, a New York based multidisciplinary design studio focusing on product, graphic, environmental, and furniture design and artwork. In collaboration with Studio Proba, Bower developed three new products for their Zendo collection: The Pivot Fountain, Waterline Chair, and Nirvana Rug.

Exploring forms, materials, textures, and colors that have interested them over the past year, the two studios designed a unique collection that allows viewers to immerse in a tranquil, multi-sensory experience. The studios explore themes of water, reflection, and transcendence, inviting visitors to lie on their Nirvana rug, sit on their Waterline chair, gaze into their multicolored Water mirrors, all while listening to the trickle of their Pivot fountain.

The Nirvana Rug is conceived as a sculptural meditation rug that becomes a metaphorical journey of transcendence. Made of rose-colored carpeting materials, Nirvana Rug starts on the floor and extends along the wall where it ends as a fringed baldachin. This special form describes the “steps to nirvana”. The Waterline Chair base is made from peach tinted glass with an undulating “waterline” at its top edge, layering over and visually submersing the velvet upholstered top. The Pivot Fountain is a cylinder with its mid-section that appears to be pivoting out, revealing the coral lining of the structure. A flat stream of water flows from the top down through each section, continuously circulating back up.

The meditative vibe of the Zendo Collection evolved from the designers’ collective subconscious, with the intention of slowing down and to balance out our hectic lives.

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Based in Portugal, Aurelie de Sousa – also known as Ellie – is an artisan and designer seeking beauty in little things. Since she was a child she always loved herbalism, aromatherapy and the emotionally rich realm of perfumery. She found all these elements in soap making.

Her brand is named “By Ellie” and her work is based on nature’s pharmacy combining vegetable oils, essential oils, fragrances and botanical extracts. She’s not only creating a natural soap with luxurious and skin loving ingredients, but also something beautiful. The colors, the shape, the texture, the ingredients are carefully chosen thinking on the relationship between design & function, the results are beautifully crafted soaps. She says on her page:”I love what I do and I want to share my passion with others: creating little luxuries that no one should do without.”

To see more little luxuries follow Ellie on Instagram! If you want to see more soap-related projects,you can read INSOAPROPRIATE, CONSUMING INTERIORS

Born in Sydney in 1976, George Byrne graduated from Sydney College Of The Arts in 2001, travelled extensively, and then settled in Los Angeles in 2010 where he has been focusing on his photographic practice.

George’s work resonates with a quiet, deductive intensity. Inspired by the clean, vivid clarity of modernist painting, Byrne also references the New Topographics photography movement via a subject matter firmly entrenched in the urban everyday. In his series ‘New Order’, he explores the urban space of Los Angeles as attentive images of refined compositional elements. The photographer captures the city with flatness drawing out the presence of shadows, road markings and trees in the image. The collection shows a view of LA focused acutely on colour, texture and surface qualities.

Visit George Byrne’s page for more projects!

Annabel Oosteweeghel is a Dutch photographer, former student of Audio-Visual Arts; her work is rooted in storytelling and an example is “Everlasting”, a story that she developed after discovering a 1960s bungalow by the coast of Noordwijk.

She imagined an older married couple living in the 60s bungalow, presenting a series of images that are retro-styled and appear to have been captured in the era itself. A wife and a husband in the perfect film set, sharing quiet moments. Oosteweeghel comments, “Life has now become extremely fast, we are always occupied with something. In my childhood, I experienced this ‘silence’ as well, and in some way enjoyed it I think. Time sometimes for nothing, more time to think.”

Visit Annabel’s page for more projects!

Sic Est is the professional practice of Domenico Tedone, who works in motion graphics, art direction, and sound design from Potenza, in the South of Italy. After four years living and working in L.A., and then in Milan, he recently got back in Potenza to freelance from a more rural environment. “I’ve found contact with nature crucial for inspiration,” he says to AIGA, citing playing jazz piano and listening to “New Age music—the weirder the better” as other touchstones for reaching optimal creativity.

The inspiration for his amazing and mad videos comes from several things: “…like reading a Saroyan book—I love books, I’m old school—a jazz piece, just staying in the middle of a wood doing nothing, or it can arrive after a good dense espresso, or talking with inspiring people.”

He started working with illustration and graphic design and continued on 3D and motion graphics; Cinema4D, Octane Rendering and Houdini are his main tools. He usually starts directly on the screen but he also said “…if I have an idea, say in the middle of the night, I’ll try to remember until the morning, then do a rough storyboard, and then straight into Cinema to make some mock-ups. This happens 80% of the time. For the other 20% I’d say that things happen by accident, especially while I’m playing with new tools on a program.”

So what makes a dream project? Apparently three main factors, “a well educated client with taste,” says Tedone. The other two factors are clients that allow him to create his own sound design, and those that pay fairly. “I think the concept of cost is a big mess at the moment,” he says. “Many designers are very, very cheap with their clients and that ‘ruins’ the whole system, but I guess that’s the market.

Follow his works on Vimeo and visit Sic Est’s page for more projects!

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Vasjen Katro is a Tirana-based graphic and UI/UX designer, also co-founder of Fabric Creative, who is “working to make a better internet”. He has been designing mobile applications, websites and ads for more than 10 years.

Baugasm is a project that Vasjen started in 2016 where he challenged himself to design a poster every day for one year long. As a fun mental exercise, he uses a different style every time, experimenting with colors, shapes, gradients and words. He also created online classes on Skillshare to teach how to reproduce his techniques.

Visit Baugasm and follow Vasjen on Instagram!

Yambo Studio is a Tel Aviv-based practice that think about CGI as a new medium for creative self-expression. “In that way, each of our visuals are guided by a sense of expressive detail that enables us to deliver creations with both innovative graphics and appealing sophistication.”

Their philosophy is to unify design, production and CGI direction under one roof to produce the most responsive and effective work. “High quality results are based on our ability to take on complicated CGI projects, build teams that suit project needs and craft forward-looking visual communications. Each project is led by Yambo who builds a dynamic team of talented artists from across the globe that are adapted to the needs of each project. A project may include a look development artist from Lithuania, 3D artists from Canada and compositors from the U.S. Everything is then done under the personal supervision of Yambo from his home studio in Tel Aviv.

Espacio Nueva Carolina is a 450sqm multidisciplinary hub in Madrid, designed by Sara Uriarte from Cordero Atelier, an interior design studio that believes in the union of creativity and functionality.

The interior is inspired by 1950s Beverly Hills hotels and Miami Art Deco, alongside co-working and events spaces, it offers a photography studio, kitchen and meeting rooms, creating a functional hub for the creative community. The Nueva Carolina features furnishings of pink velvet and rattan, walls and flooring in terrazzo, chairs designed by Marcel Breuer and plenty of green house plants. Uriarte has infused classic design elements into a contemporary concept of flexible, round-the-clock productivity, creating a sophisticated, inspiring environment for both living and working.

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Bunker Arquitectura is a Mexico City-based architecture, urbanism and research office founded by Esteban Suarez in 2005. Since the beginning “the studio has been able to explore and experiment architecture on the widest possible scale: from small iconic chapels for private clients to an urban master plan for an entire city. Bunker ultimately believes in giving unique and outside the box solutions to specific problems, leaving behind the quest for a personal style or branded architecture.”

Completed in 2011, Sunset Chapel was their second religious commission: the first was a wedding chapel conceived for happy celebrations while this one had a diametrically opposite purpose, to mourn the passing of loved ones. To give this feeling the studio decided to create tension through the design: Glass vs. Concrete, Transparency vs. Solidity, Ethereal vs. Heavy, Classical Proportions vs. Apparent Chaos, Vulnerable vs. Indestructible, Ephemeral vs. Lasting. Located on Acapulcos hill, the structure is made up of huge granite rocks piled on top of each other.

“In a purely mimetic endeavor, we worked hard to make the chapel look like just another colossal boulder atop the mountain.”

“Hugo in the Garden is a multi-collaborative project. Here we explore how artificial common materials work into an organic atmosphere. Some polyurethane foam creating a kind of creeper or some machine knitted wool growing around a plastic bonsai. All of them grow, like the plants we all know. But particularly these ones, in a different way.” They started from the sketches of Eze Matteo. Six N. Five (previously on WeVux) took all of them and made the 3d art direction and sculptures design. Twistedpoly was in charge of the beautiful animations and edition. The final touch was from Cypheraudio, who made the lovely music and the sound design. Enjoy!

Directed by: Ezequiel Pini (Six N. Five) + Twistedpoly
2D sketches by: Eze Matteo
3D Sculptures and Art Direction by: Ezequiel Pini (Six N. Five)
Animation and Edit by: Twistedpoly
Music and Sound design: John Black / Cypheraudio

Leonardo Betti, AKA Leonardoworx is a talented Italian digital artist based in Florence (previously on WeVux). His studied Music and New Technologies at Conservatorio L. Cherubini in Florence and later also at Ircam and at Centre Pompidou, where he was able to find a strong and original way to express himself. As sound designer and motion graphic designer he has worked for fashion brands – Armani, to name one – and for animation studios. Commissioned by european art galleries, museums and concept stores, he also created short movies and interactive installations using Max/Msp/Jitter.

This project is called Nebula and it’s inspired by the idea that “looking at one of these is like, at the same time,watching to the future and the past, due too the light velocity and the distance between us and them” and the “we are made of stardust” manifesto. “It’s an ordered disorder guided by abstract shapes with nebulae textures in a first step. In the second one I painted my imaginary textures (always inspired by real nebulae). Looking at the universe is so inspiring and it shows how little we are in space and time dimensions.”

Visit Leonardo’s website to see more!

Completed in October 2016 by the French firm Batiik Studio, Achille is a tiny studio dwelling located in Saint-Denis, Paris. With a budget of 32,000 euros, the project is a renovation of an old dilapidated flat (32 square meters) designed for a young bachelor. Rebecca Benichou, the founder of Batiik Studio, has an unerring eye for shapes, she approaches architecture in a visual way and her interventions are characterized by a perfect harmony between the elements in the space. Achille is an example, arranged with taste and intuition: unplastered walls contrast with the wood furniture textures in a mix between elegance and roughness. To optimize the existing space, Batiik Studio designed a bedroom solution with an integrated closet and bathroom: the bed is surrounded by a black wooden box where the dweller can store his clothes. On one side of the box a black door opens up in an elegant and bright marble bathroom.

Visit Batiik Studio’s page to see more projects!

In a mix of fine art and design, Fernando Mastrangelo (1978) creates furniture and sculpture with the help of salt, coffee, sand, glass and cement. His pieces are not only functional chairs and tables but also material investigations that play with our perception.

His works is characterized with different shapes and textures, “…they (his pieces) are both rugged and refined, durable and delicate, formal and functional. Precisely because of their hybrid natures, each work shatters the potential for contextual singularity.” Fernando has exhibited throughout the world and he is the founder of a design firm MMATERIAL that runs out of his Brooklyn studio. “Prior to pursuing his career in the arts & design, he worked as an assistant to Matthew Barney.” Visit his page for more pieces!

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BÜRO UFHO is a a multi-disciplinary design studio based in Singapore “delivering beautifully crafted solutions for aspiring clients around the world.”

They recently participated to 36 Days of Type 2016, an Instagram account where everyone is asked to participate to the challenge with the hashtag #36daysoftype, with specific alphabets designated on each day. Here is part of the gallery from the project – the longest render to realize one letter was 9h 48min. More about the project here!

Are you still hungry after these long holidays? Universal Favourite is an Australian agency that designed Complements chocolates in collaboration with the Bakedown Cakery in Sydney.

Designed as end-of-year gifts, the chocolates are described by the studio as a “modular system” of pair-and-share treats and are shaped like small flights of steps. “The idea was inspired by the complementary relationship between client and designer,” said Universal Favourite. Each chocolate has different “finishes” and colors, corresponding to a different flavour specially developed by the bakery.

via dezeen

Guda Koster is a Dutch artist that plays with personal taste, profession, interests or social position creating beautiful photographs in which clothing has the main role. Besides sculpture and installation art she experiments with texture, color and patterns to make surreal images and underline the meanings laying in our choices of garments. Her works are full of irony, mild criticism and the mystery that makes the viewer want know more.

Leonardo Betti, AKA Leonardoworx, is an Italian digital artist based in Florence. He is very talented and here you will find a collection of “Instafluids”, flowing abstract animations and photos, liquid clothes, hyper textured elements, that you can’t stop staring at. More on his website!

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Zigor is a 3D illustrator based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His artwork are precise and inspired by pop culture and the textures are carefully chosen, a real example of virtuosity. Have a look at his works, you will find also tutorial on his website!

Flavia Del Pra is a Brazilian artist specialized in ceramics. One of her latest project is a collection made in collaboration with GAN, Spanish interior brand. Mix&Match is the name of this new handmade collection composed by trays, tables, platters and pedestals. The main colors are pink, grey, copper and blue and every piece is characterized by a pleasant geometric pattern.

The New York based Snarkitecture Studio collaborated with Print All Over Me (POAM) to design a clothing collection called Architectural Camouflage. These clothes have all been designed to blend into the urban environment, they’re characterized by patterns and textures that can be seen in the street tiles, for example. This collection allows also an abstract dialog between architecture and textile.

Nya Nordiska is a leading international textiles editor with subsidiaries in Paris, London, Como and Tokyo. The family business was founded in 1964 by Heinz Röntgen and today it employs about 120 people.

They presented during Maison&Objet, Paris, 3 collections inspired by nature, that play with floral and botanic patterns: Pure Perfection focuses on classic-looking materials in wild silk, linen and wool as well, hand-woven and hand-embroidered in India. Luxury Life interpret the floral theme and Lurex characterized this second collection. Creative Concept is the third, with its modern millefleur interpretation and expressive colours. Nya Nordiska was also the main sponsor of Das Haus at IMM Cologne 2016, and collaborated with the German designer Sebastian Herkner to create all the three collections.

Walking Shadows is a collection of illustration made by Jason Ratliff. He uses the outline and shadow of objects to create patterns. He removed unnecessary details to bring emphasis to the shape of certain objects, while retaining detail where he wants to show the whole story. This playful toying with differing levels of detail keeps his work interesting and makes it pop off the page. Ratliff currently works as a freelance designer and illustrator from his home base in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Il tappeto annodato consiste in un manufatto costruito su un ordito di fili (catene longitudinali) sul quale viene tessuta una trama di fili trasversali; tra una fila e l’altra vengono serrati dei nodi.A questa struttura di base si aggiungono molteplici fattori, che rendono ogni tappeto diverso dall’altro: il disegno, la lana, i colori, la misura, il tipo e la finezza del nodo , ed altri elementi rendono ogni esemplare pressochè unico.

La tecnica usata per annodare i tappeti è molto antica e molto semplice; e come tutte le cose semplici così efficace da subire poche variazioni nel tempo.

Alla creazione di un tappeto concorrono: le materie prime, i colori, i telai, la tessitura, l’annodatura, il disegno ed il lavaggio.

_Le materie prime usate nell’annodatura del tappeto sono la lana, la seta, il cotone ed a volte lino, canapa e yuta. La lana di pecora, capra, cammello, resta la materia prima per eccellenza.

La qualità della lana, data dalla morbidezza elasticità e lunghezza del pelo, varia secondo il tipo di animale ma anche secondo la parte del corpo di uno stesso animale (collo, pancia, zampe, spalle, dorso).

Nella determinazione della qualità sono anche importanti il periodo di tosatura e l’età dell’animale.

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Per costruire un tappeto occorre innanzitutto un telaio, (pare che gli inventori dei telai siano stati gli egiziani).
I telai possono essere di varie misure e strutturati con varie tecniche, ma i più famosi sono il telaio orizzontale e quello verticale. Di solito il telaio orizzontale veniva usato dalle popolazioni nomadi, in quanto più pratico e maneggevole, accompagnava le tribù nei vari spostamenti.Il telaio verticale veniva e viene tuttora usato da popolazioni sedentarie, talvolta reso più stabile con agganci alle pareti della casa stessa.

Scopo del telaio, di qualsiasi tipo, è di sostenere i fili dell’ordito in modo da formare un doppio ordine di catene, uno superiore e uno inferiore. Con l’aiuto di un “liccio” l’artigiano può sollevare i fili superiori o quelli inferiori in modo da creare dei canali alternati attraverso i quali far passare il filo della trama.

Il lavoro inizia creando una solida base eseguita usando la tecnica del tappeto Kilim. Si ottiene così la cimosa, con o senza frangia.In seguito l’artigiano sceglie dei fili corti e sottili di vario colore e li annoda alle catene dell’ordito. Quando la fila longitudinale è completata viene fatto passare un filo o più della trama e con un pettine i nodi vengono serrati alla fila inferiore.

Per i lunghi fili dell’ordito e della trama viene usato di solito il cotone, mentre per i nodi viene usata la lana. Molti tappeti vengono costruiti interamente in lana, anticamente perchè non era reperibile il cotone, poi per rispettare la tradizione.

Per i tappeti pregiati viene usata la seta per l’ordito-trama. Ogni località presenta le sue caratteristiche originali nella battitura dei nodi, nelle finiture dei bordi,e in altri particolari, ma costante è il procedimento: nodo dopo nodo, fila dopo fila la lavorazione procede con pazienza fino al completamento del tappeto.

I nodi

La caratteristica che distingue il tappeto da altri prodotti tessili è il vello , creato con corti fili di lana o seta, allacciati alle catene dell’ordito. Normalmente chiamati NODI, in realtà sono dei lacci, e si distinguono in tre tipi a seconda della tecnica usata: nodo turco o ghiordes, nodo persiano o senneh, nodo arabo-spagnolo.

_Il nodo turco prende il nome di Il nodo ghiordes consiste nel far passare il filo tra due catene contigue dell’ordito, uscendo con i 2 capi nello spazio centrale.

_ Il nodo senneh si presenta attorcigliando il filo di lana attorno alle due catene dell’ordito, ma mentre un capo esce nello spazio centrale, l’altro capo esce tra la catena e la contigua, a destra o sinistra.Il nodo arabo-spagnolo è il più semplice e consiste nell’ intrecciare il filo intorno ad un’unica catena dell’ordito, incrociando i due capi sul retro e riemergendo sul davanti.Questo tipo di nodo è poco usato, limitandosi di solito alla Spagna.

Le tecniche per creare un tappeto sono molteplici e dipendono dalla tradizione di origine e dal luogo. Le tipologie principali di tappeto sono trapuntati e tessuti ma ci sono anche tappeti follati e tappeti lavorati a maglia.

_ Tappeti tessuti o intrecciati: vengono creati su un telaio creando catene di fili tra l’ordito.

_ Tappeti tuftati o trapuntati: sono realizzati inserendo ciuffi di filato attraverso un supporto di tessuto.

I ciuffi di filato poi possono venire tagliati ed in base al tipo di taglio e di lunghezza possiamo avere un tappeto con altezze di pelo variabile, combinando il disegno a diverse altezze di pelo. Vedi gli esempi su SCUOLA DI INTERNI: I TAPPETI – come riconoscere la qualità

Mi sono resa conto solo ultimamente delle incredibili variabili e qualità dei tappeti. Sono in molti a vedere il tappeto come una specie di panno un pò peloso che si riempie di briciole e polvere, scuro e ogni tanto anche un pò pungente, poco accogliente.

Un tappeto è tutto questo solo fino a quando si conoscono tappeti vecchi o di scarsa qualità.

Un bel tappeto è morbido, fitto, di colori che si abbinano al resto dell’ambiente rendendolo più scuro o illuminandolo, rendendolo più vivace e rasserenandolo.

La tipologia di nodo usato, di lavorazione ed il materiale contribuiscono a definire la qualità del tappeto.

I tappeti più pregiati presentano materiali come lana e seta, vengono annodati molto fitti ed la trama presenta altezze diverse seguendo lo schema del disegno, movimentandolo e creando una sorta di texture altimentrica.

L’uso della seta si riconosce ponendo il soggetto controluce e vedendo la trama del pelo diventare molto luminosa e traslucida.

Inoltre il tappetto con più percentuale di seta è molto morbido e liscio, in qualunque direzione si accarezzi il pelo mentre un soggetto più lanoso risulta essere un pochino più “ruvido”, fitto è stabile.

La luce è importantissima per intravedere le qualità di un tappeto: il movimento, i colori, la trama, la materia prima, il nodo… Sono tutte caratteristiche riconoscibli tramite gli effetti che il vello genera posizionandolo in diverse condizioni e direzioni di luce.

In base al tipo di tappeto che si sta creando, all’origine, la qualità ed allo stile che rappresenta vengono utilizzate materie prime differenti.

LE MATERIE PRIME

Fibre naturali:

_Fibre di cocco: ruvida e molto resistente viene ottenuta dalla buccia del cocco.

_ Cotone: dalla pianta tropicale del cotone, viene utilizzata per creare la faccia delle moquette e solo a volte utilizzata per i tappeti.

_ Iuta: usata per fare tessuti come tela e spago, la iuta è più morbida del sisal e viene utilizzata nel come sostegno per il tessuto.

_ Sisal: ricavato dalle agavi è un materiale rozzo e molto delicato.

_ Lana: utilizzata per i soggetti pregiati, è morbida, durevole e costosa.

_ Seta: Utilizzata solo in percentuale insieme alla lana, rende il tappeto più morbido e luminoso.

Fibre sintetiche:

_Fibre metalliche: insieme ad altre fibre sintetiche aiutano a dissipare l’elettricità statica che esse stesse creano.

_Polimeri: anche conosciuti come resine e plastiche varie hanno diverse caratteristiche per rendere il tappeto più duraturo e simile ad uno costituito di fibre naturali.

L’attribuzione di un colore e la sua resa percettiva sono molto influenzati anche dalla tipologia di superficie utilizzata.

I due argomenti infatti sono strettamente correlati: lo stesso colore può avere un significato ed un effetto diverso in base alla superficie a cui viene applicato, suscitando sensazioni completamente diverse.

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Testi dal libro: COLORE E LUCE di Jorrit Tornquist

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