TALENTSMoisés is a Mexican born designer based in Mexico City. His hometown, being chaotic and over populated, as well as Mexican objects, traditions, textures, social contrast and chromatic diversity are elements influencing Moises’ work. Moisés have always been atracted by simplicity and fresh ideas and that is why he decided to study at ECAL, in Lausanne Switzerland where in summer of 2. Mexican to get a Master of Product design from this school obtaining special mention. The concept of this vase collection is to have different cylindrical containers that are connected between them but with independence at the same time, each container have different diameters and heights, giving the feeling of rhythm and balance. The vases are made of borosilicate glass, which allows a pure and geometric appearance, with clean and solid connections. The cylinders heights incite to play with the flowers, giving individuality to the elements of this object and making the flowers and the water look like they are floating, generating a micro landscape feeling. Quinten Mestdagh from the Royal Academy Of Fine Arts Antwerp has a great talent, his garments are spectacular and complex. They reflect our modern obsession for messages and personality. This strong and colorful collection was inspired by ripped up publicity panels and a love for fashion photography and strong graphic identity.
Top VIdeos. Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/jujaitaly/public/index.php on line 447. For you to get to know him better we asked Mestgagh a few questions: How did you start this project? I wanted to work around the concept that showed the power and strength of fashion photography and fashion imagery. I’ve always been attracted to highly stylized and iconic fashion images in magazines and advertisements and they were the main inspiration for starting the collection. During a walk trough the Paris metro stations I came across an advertisement from the department store les Galleries Lafayette. On the advertisement there were two models shown who were wearing very skinny trousers. Right from the waist up the poster was ripped off and the silhouette of the long legs continued into the rips of the paper. It created a new and abstract kind of silhouette and it was the main inspiration for the shapes and the graphic identity of the collection. By seeing these ripped advertisements I started to get interested into how you can create, by an act of aggression on a beautiful picture, a kind of tension or disruption on an image. I started with making collages and 3d paper compositions myself with Images found in the archive of the MOMU library in Antwerp. Glossy pictures of woman’s faces are disrupted by paper rips and shreds resembling the damaged advertisements creating a tension and roughness in contrast with the beauty showcased in fashion photography. Afterwards I made blow- ups of these prints and started to think how I would translate them to into 3- Dimensional garments. Can you tell us more about the shapes? For the shapes of the clothing I looked to the clean and architectural volumes of midcentury couture gowns. They had and elegance but also a kind of static and strong feeling that worked really well together with the impact of the prints. I used trompe l’oeil effects by printing the paper collages on different fabrics and reinforcing them with stiff non woven and paper. So it has the effect and lightness of paper but the fabrics have enough stiffness and structure to hold the shapes. I also worked with pleating systems in full skirts where the two pictures are fused together to recreate the feeling of rotating billboards. How would you describe yourself: as an artist / as a fashion designer / as a graphic designer …? I tend to work almost always in a very graphical and visual way when I start designing. I am really interested in the power of image and graphics and it is something that I always try to incorporate in my work. It is really important to me that the core of my work always starts from a reference that is directly linked to fashion. Working with contrasts and juxtapositions is a theme that always comes back in my work and I always try to find a way to visualize that. What fascinates you so much about photography? In fashion photography its always the direct impact and beauty of an image that strikes me the most. Your work is very strong also by the way you use colour, what is your relation to colour ? I really like to mix very bright and hard colors with other colors that are more soft or calm. It’s always about finding a contrast between them to get that graphic feeling. I like to work with colors on images that it looks like there has been a filter placed over them and everything gets saturated into one bright glow. Is your design process always the same ? It always starts with a lot of visual references who I then place next to each other to create a dialogue or a contradiction between them. For me this process is a lot of fun because it’s really here where the collection starts to come together as a whole. From here on I then start to think how these images can be translated into shapes and how they can become a three- dimensional fashion silhouette. How do you see yourself in the future? I Hope that one day I will end up in a place or a position where I can continue to work with fashion in the same way that I am doing it and how I am enjoying it now. Cecile Poignant. Photography: Michael Smits. Make- up: Laura Noben and Cecile Paravina. Model: Luka Van der Vekenquinten mestdagh. Teresa van Dongen, AMBIO_photo by Hans Boddeke. Teresa van Dongen recently graduated the Design Academy - Netherland is exploring the boundaries and connection of design and biology. For you to get to know her better, we’ve ask her some questions about her work: You graduated from the Design Academy in 2. When I graduated my project ‘Ambio’ gave me a flying start: it was exhibited, awarded and published internationally. Ambio’ is a lamp that works on bioluminescent bacteria from the skin of an octopus. The bacteria are inside a seawater liquid, when they are oxygenated by movement they emit a dim blue light. In 2. 01. 5 I won a ‘Dutch Design Award’ and ‘the Eyes on Talents Award’. The last award allowed me to create a big installation at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris during D’Days 2. One Luminous Dot’, a continuation of ‘Ambio’. Since then I continued to work with microorganisms. My latest project ‘Spark of Life’ is a lamp that works on electro active bacteria. First you studied biology and after you applied at the Design Academy Eindhoven. What made you want to be a designer too? Actually, I never wanted to become an artist like many of my friends did, but when I discovered that through design you could make so called "applied arts" I knew that that was what I wanted to do because I love to do or create something for others. The direction "Well Being" at the Design Academy fitted exactly what I wanted to do because it focuses on the well being of all living things and systems; people, nature, animals and the society as a whole. What aspects of biology are fascinating to use for your designs? During my study Biology, I noticed that interesting developments in the field of science often didn’t leave the confined space of the lab, or find an application in daily life. I see a great opportunity for designers to work together with scientists and use each other’s knowledge for co- creation. Can you describe your creative process? How do you start your project, what is your goal and how do you know it’s finished? To start with, I take a period to do research into scientific developments; I go to lectures, watch documentaries and I read about it. When I find something that takes my interest, I try to find if there is a scientific discipline related to the subject and to find someone working in that field. Often professors are quite willing to call or meet me in person, and at this point I already have some sketches of what I imagine could be a done with the technique I have in mind. If the professor finds it interesting he/she puts me in contact with his or her (master) students, who are often happy doing something new and experimental. During ‘Ambio’, the students did sometimes even text me in the middle of the night after drinking in the pub, telling me that they would go to the laboratory to check if the bacteria were still emitting light. After I understand the science, technique and the essence of the technology to try to simplify it. Then I try to make the technology part of the design and when it’s working, I know it’s finished. News: Breaking stories & updates.
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