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e-vo-lu-ti-on · 5 years

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Material developement

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In A/W 20/21, as resources become scarcer and focus shifts towards circular economies, there will be a growing focus on new design thinking for solid materials, driven by resourcefulness and invention.

1. Use nature as a resource: incorporate wood, jute, leather and wool in contemporary crafts, and develop new composites and dyes from food waste.

2. Repurpose waste for sustainable outcomes: make beautifully contaminated surfaces from waste-water dyes, city grime, and rust, or reuse discarded paper, textiles, leather, plastic, foam and ceramics.

3. Put the spotlight firmly on plastic: investigate new bioplastics, which are scaling fast, and recycle plastic waste in creative and colourful ways.

4. Create ephemeral, otherworldly surfaces: eco-awareness will inspire geological and climatic finishes, morphed metals, and dichroic shine, and living materials will be created using crystals and bacteria.

5. Build tactile softness into design: challenge taste perceptions with joyful lumpy and squeezed forms, and create homely comfort through padded tactility.

A focus on cosiness and self-care will influence a softer direction for materiality, paying attention to the innate benefits of warmth, support and home comfort

· Be inspired by Parterre Surfaces Chauffantes' heated rug system, which creates warm zones in the home that heat the body rather than the whole house, with a modern padded look blending seamlessly into the decor. On a more artisan scale, Saar Scheerlings' Cushion Cabinet, made from fabric-covered foam and lashed with ropes, takes the idea of quilting to a new level.

· Develop ultra-lightweight wadded, quilted and softly dimensional textiles and leathers and create products that cocoon or provide snuggly warmth

Application: apparel, accessories, footwear, textiles, product design, interiors

Surface decoration will evolve as experiments with crystalline colour and texture grow, creating otherworldly 'living' alternatives to mined stones or man-made paste embellishments.

· Be inspired by the inventiveness of Alice Pott's Perspire collection of textiles and footwear, which harvests crystals from human sweat, creating mesmerising surfaces unique to each wearer. Similarly, crystal artist Lars Paschke transforms jewellery by Arielle de Pinto into creations that are even more exclusive than their original form.

· Crystals can be used to hide flaws or inventively repair broken objects, such as in Lukas Wegwerth's innovative Crystallization vessels. Commercially this material concept can inspire encrusted-looking embellishments.

Application: apparel, accessories, footwear, textiles, jewellery, product design

Materials surfaces will advance with more colour and textural iridescence, tapping into a dreamy, otherworldly direction

· Experiment with mirror surfaces like Rive Roshan's triple-layered lenticular-effect glass furniture, which has colour-shifting moiré effects. Similarly Anne Veronica Janssen's Magic Mirrors have a hazy crackled effect via shattered glass sandwiched in between dichroic film. In apparel, Stone Island’s innovative jacket omits iridescent reflectivity through a printed glass bead coating. Experiment with thermochromatic textiles, dichroic films, anodised metal, oily leather and opaline glass.

Application: apparel, accessories, footwear, textiles, jewellery, packaging, product design, interiors

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juliandmouton30 · 7 years

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Seven designer Christmas decorations to deck your halls

Now that the festive season is underway, we've rounded up a selection of our favourite designer decorations to embellish your house this Christmas – from iridescent sculptures to minimalist baubles designed by an all-female collective.

Flat-pack decorations by COS

COS' 2017 Christmas offering comes in the form of a set of flat-pack baubles, made from matte silver cardboard. Each pack includes three decorations, which are each popped-out of a cardboard sheet and slotted together to form 3D-objects.

£10, available from COS stores and online

Hanging sculpture by Kia Utzon-Frank

London designer Kia Utzon-Frank, who also creates sculpture-like cakes, made this hypnotic mobile from dichroic film and fishing wire. As the sun hits the decoration, rainbow-hued shadows are cast around the room.

£29, available from the Z-List online store ›

Ceramic baubles by John Booth

This year, London designer John Booth was enlisted to decorate the Christmas tree at the London Edition hotel, and did so using a range of ceramic baubles he had designed and hand-made. The decorations are available to purchase in sets of four, with proceeds going towards The Albert Kennedy Trust – a charity that supports LGBTQ+ youth affected by homelessness.

£85, available from House of Voltaire online store ›

"Eco-friendly" Christmas tree by Hejmonti

German brand Hejmonti describes its Josef tree as being an eco-friendly and money-saving alternative to traditional pines. Made up of seven plywood rings, three ropes, and one wooden ring at the base – the tree is hung from the roof, with decorations placed on each of its sections.

Prices start from €265, available from Hejmonti's website ›

Decoration circle by Kristina Dam Studio

Kristina Dam Studio's Decoration Circle provides a minimalist alternative to tinsel and glitter. Made from brass and steel, the Danish practice suggests decorating the hoop with festive foliage and berries – for a "cosy, yet Scandinavian Christmas style".

€108, available from Kristina Dam Studio's website ›

Shard baubles by Sebastian Bergne

Sebastian Bergne's Shard baubles are the British designer's latest Christmas offering – following on from his nativity scene that comprised nothing but rectangular wooden blocks. Available in ruby red and a mirrored surface, the decorations are each cut into jagged fragments and all pop-out from a post-card size sheet of acrylic

£12, available from Sebastian Bergne's website ›

Baubles by Edition Noël

Edition Noël is a Berlin-based collective made up of all-female designers: Studio Berg, Studio fuer, Johanna Gauder, Julia Wolf, Pattern Studio and Tara Deacon. Each of the studios has hand-crafted a minimal Christmas tree decoration reflecting their own signature – sets of six pieces will be sold in a limited-edition run of 300.

€125, available to purchase from Edition Noël's website ›

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nofomoartworld · 8 years

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Colored Tape on Glass Makes Matisse-Inspired Minimalist Illustrations

Images courtesy the artist

In the Handmade series, artist Eric Petersen keeps the glass but ditches the stain, opting instead to make minimalist and often surreal translucent illustrations with various colored but transparent films and tapes. Like his digital illustration work, the Handmade series features vibrant solid colors, clean and minimal linework, and a hint of psychedelia and surrealist Pop art.

The Joshua Tree-based artist tells The Creators Project that he began illustrating back in 2012 while living in Olympia, Washington. He had been working in web development for several years, then took a brief detour into 3D technical illustration. Unsatisfied in both areas, at the urging of his wife, Petersen started making art based on his background and interest in drawing and graphic design.

Petersen says his work isn’t influenced by any contemporary illustrators. Instead, he has found inspiration in the works of Henri Matisse, Alexander Rodchenko, and the look of Action Comics Superman of the late 30s and early 40s. And though his work occasionally bears a resemblance to French illustrator master Moebius, Petersen was unfamiliar with his work before discovering his own style, though he amidst his influence may have crept in anyway.

“The colors I use are a result of me playing in Photoshop,” Petersen says. “I create layers of gradients over base colors and blend them until I am happy with what I see. The way I frame my characters and spaces are a result of me playing with the camera and lenses in a 3D environment. I feel like a photographer when I am doing this.”

The works in the Handmade series grow out of these 2D and 3D digital processes. First, Petersen thinks of a visual idea. Then, he starts posing 3D characters and crafting a 3D scene. After rendering the image, Petersen draws over the render in Illustrator, then colors it in Photoshop.

From there, he uses optically-clear color polyester films and crepe paper graphic tape on a glass surface. He also uses transparent dichroic film, which allows the colors to change depending on the viewing angle. Petersen uses a craft knife to cut the elements of the scene, then hand-tapes everything on glass. He was familiar and comfortable with taping from his time working at an architecture firm, where he created borders on white foamcore for the interior design department.

“Adhesive color film is carefully applied to the back of the glass,” Petersen explains. “The tape is on the front of the glass. This creates some texture and allows for a shadow depending on the light source.”

“I like the idea of working with film and tape on glass because I find it to be closest to my digital process,” he adds. “I use blocks of color digitally as I do with the color film. I can layer things on the glass as I do in Photoshop. The tape linework is very similar to the lines I create in Illustrator with Bézier curves.”

Though Petersen’s work is highly colorful, he only recently started playing with vibrant hues. The clean linework, on the other hand, is a result of his inclination towards minimalism, where there is an impulse to “display ideas in a very functional, authoritative manner similar to instruction manuals.”

“I think it is fair to say that there are elements of surrealism, absurdity and psychedelia,” says Petersen. “This was never my intention from the start, but I definitely see it and did appreciate the dada movement.”

“The subject matter just comes to me as a visual idea from random thoughts,” he adds. “My goal is to get people to feel something in a personal way from these emotionless, precisely-drawn characters in minimal scenes. I think removing the complexity from the image while adding bold vibrant colors and a sense of real atmosphere through gradients and light helps achieve this.”

Though he enjoys working with color, Petersen is also working in black-and-white with bolder lines on opaque glass. For him, Handmade is a chance to see how he can transform digital works into something new and, ideally, discover the next steps in the series.

Click here to see more of Eric Petersen’s work.

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