Toward Design Magazine

Toward Design Magazine

Toward Design Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

MY DIARY AT FLORENCE

The work reflects the journey of the young Chinese artist searching for her true self at the most prestigious art school, Academia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where she’s absorbed the energy coming from the collision of Chinese and western culture, and turned it into these stunning pieces of art. By printing those amazing patterns on woolen materials, the most faithful reproduction of the traditional Chinese rice paper, the calligraphy delivers the power of writing and the charm of art.

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Adriatico

This project is inspired by the unique relationship between water and skin and the interplay between the two. Digitally created waves mimic free flowing water and echo the sensation of the fabric against your skin. Both the print and material come together for a contemporary appeal. In order to create the optimum visual effect, we adjusted the saturation of the color before digital printing.

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Lane

The project has two parts:Digital Pattern Designs Collection and Unique Handcrafted Artisan Wallcoverings. The consciously disjointed layout of digital patterns and the extreme enlargements have a special purpose: bringing a fresh visual experience and reflecting the mood of handloom weaving. The patterns can be applied in any preferred way: vertically or horizontally. With the wallcoverings, the application of fine materials refers to the delicate, thin yarns and the structured surface allows a spatial playfulness.

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Rong

1983ASIA consider the whole design as a container which can carry the spirit culture of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and inject the interaction information of culture of two places while the unified visual system is kept. so that more people could understand the Chinese cultural system behind Shenzhen and Hong Kong through vision,see different cultural tolerance between the two cities.

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Harmony

This design was influenced by La Sagrada Familia whose interior contains a synergy of light and colour. Textiles designers find the importance to capture the senses. The idea was not to introduce the sensuality of the tactile material first but to create a conjuncted experience for the eyes and the body. The fabric is a woven sample. The woven clear acrylic rods create a perception of extended light of colour which strikes the user and creates a spacial interaction. The spikes of the acrylic rods may transcend aggressive surface, but the soft colours dilute such perception.

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Shuttle

Based on jacquard woven technique and combining with the concept of semi-shaped clothing, it arouses curiosity about looking for the innovative and prospective fashion design. This project, which is called ‘Shuttle’, is inspired by the unique relationship between water and land and how they interconnect one another. With free flowing water movements and simplified outline of landscape, they come together to inspire and create new fabric.

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