Toward Design Magazine

Toward Design Magazine

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

 

FLOORO

The innovative carpet for the aviation industry looks more like a flooring material and weighs considerably less than conventional carpeting (30–70 per cent weight reduction). At the same time it is extremely hard-wearing. In addition, 50 per cent of this new generation of textile flooring is made using recycled Econyl yarns. The advantages are the economic benefits associated with the need for less material, the carpet’s lower weight, optimised product functionality, lower logistics costs and new design.

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Janus Fabric

Janus Fabric is a new conceptual material, whose surface can work as a heating or lighting system. The combination of the material diversity and incorporated functional system creates multi-dimensional designs, which are both functional and aesthetic. Janus Fabric originated from the idea to expand the definition of a simple surface material to a performing component. To add a function to a product, additional components and complex production systems are usually required. Since Janus itself can perform the function, this can help to solve these problems and allows to focus on the design.

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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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