Toward Design Magazine

Toward Design Magazine

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

 

Reminiscent

Reinterpreting the fragrance industry, Pallavi Padukone uses textiles as aromatherapy to condense time and distance and create an immersive experience to reconnect with nature, nostalgia, her home, and identity. Reminiscent uses natural ways to integrate and infuse scents into textiles through perfumed pockets and embroidery and embellishment using scent coated cotton yarn and organza silk. At a time when wearing masks is the new normal, her textiles pay tribute to the sensorial experience of smell and its effect on mental and physical wellness.

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The Tenderness of Wool

This work ruled out felting, commonly used in wool manufacturing processes of everyday goods, and focus on the intertwining properties of plain wool while employing various sewing techniques. Her experiments gave birth to thin and translucent wool-based material with distinct thread pattern, giving the impression of being both robust and ethereal. She plans to continue her investigation into the methods of expressing the delicacy and fineness of the natural aspect of wild wool and explore the ways the beauty of nature can be interwoven into everyday life.

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Dongfangfu

Dongfangfu pillow aims to provide comfortable sleep through quality fabric and filling materials. It features three distinct heights in three different sections based on the ergonomic design, so that the pillow can support the head and neck whether people sleep on the front, side or back. Both the material and the shape design reflect the designer's meticulous care for the sleeper. With durable materials, the down pillow offers support and alignment year after year.

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Exclusive 1015

Exclusive 1015 from Vorwerk is a hard flooring which feels like textile. With its structures and iridescent 3D effects, it amazes the eye. Dark base material and a contrasting surface have been woven together ingeniously – to create a unique look, which lends this product its special character. Exclusive 1015 is available in various designs and patterns: sleek and reserved or optically offbeat. The colours have been chosen to cater to fans of timeless hues, from the Classic Design style world, in grey, blue, brown and anthracite tones.

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Lamella

Lamella is a multilayered handmade unique material. Design include components such a biodegradable laminate, recycled mesh and antibacterial canvas. The interest in textiles research based on ecological ideas has resulted in the creation of experimental fashion designs and accessories. The durable high quality structure is friendly for environment. Abstract patterns exist in various types of textures and colors. The project is creatively unlimited and corresponding with avant-garde designs as well usual products. Multilayered collage concern idea of material that incorporates new technologies.

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The Modern Women

A repetitive screen-print pattern design made for the modern and brave woman. The design is implemented with different color combinations and on different fabrics such as cotton, silk and satin. The prints are for winter collection. The pattern and garments were designed for the strong independent woman who also has a hidden feminine side that she wants to express. The collection was meant to treat the other side in every women. Combining both modern and classic style in one look.

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