Before reading the article I saw the video made for this collection and I found it fascinating. It expressed me a very detailed sense of movement and flexibility. Exaggerating the act of movement but making it feel so delicate at the same time.
"The constructions are designed to be worn on the back or a shin, and each object is formed with dozens of elements practically levitating close to the body, responding to each body movement with vibrations adjusting to its speed and strength," Sliwinska told Dezeen.
"By wearing the designed objects one does not simply decorate the body, but rather extend it both in the context of multidimensional shape and activity – the movement is given a new visual representation," said Sliwinska.
Giving multidimensional shape and activity to movement I think it works out beautifully because it gives me a sense of memory to the movement.
MADE TO WEAR - Janine West
“Where precious jewellery fitted the body of the wearer, now the wearer must fit – demonstrate commitment – to the piece; where before it was decorative, here it is declamatory. The wearer makes the conscious decision to the social, political and aesthetic environment for the piece. The new jewellery does not accommodate the body – rather it is in orbit around the body … jewellery is now a body cage and a mind opener … In the politics of magic the new English artist-jewellers are revolutionaries” – Rose Slivka for Crafts magazine.
The way the structure of the building is thought so that each container can bring natural light into the building I think is really clever. It works as a refuge from the city as well and it combines both modern (with the building and interiors) and rustic sense (thanks to the environment around it. The use of various containers also works as clever separations between different rooms in the house.
I was impressed by the work of this artist because jewelry was presented in a much more conceptual way. These findings are really a revelation for me because I have never been able to think of jewelry in any other way than ornaments for the body. In this case, I feel that the jewelry is an extension of the body and works as a projection of what the person is really feeling, like a projection of the mind.
Minimal Design
Minimal design attracts me more than other types of design because of the abstraction behind its construction. It interest me the simplicity from which it is created yet it relies on a much more complex concept because it feels that every detail has to be really thought through and that every single one is there for a reason.
The Porcelain Bear's ceramic Acrobat lighting created by interpretations of circus performers looks so elegant and simple. The thought forms of the lamps give them a sense of gracious movement. The use of the metals and ceramics give a really interesting balance to the design.
Installations by Architects, S. Bonnemaison & R. Eisenbach
"A garden sundial reminds us of the connection between time and the rotation of the earth. In most familiar design, the sun's trajectory over the course of the day casts a moving shadow on a flat tablet inscribed with hours."
I liked this installation because it combined both architecture and a very artistic approach. This structure plays as an installation for different reasons, one of them being that it does not have the functionality that most of building made by architects have. In this installation the architecture is the mean to and end.
"The visual juxtapositions point to a variety of historical, political, and social contexts relating to religious iconography, sex, gender, power, pleasure, and torture. The female figures (the sex reoccurring the most frequently in this work) are depicted as nude, smooth, limbless, faceless, and centralized in the images, referencing the ideal female body in art and advertising in western culture, with the intent of questioning constructions of beauty, the objectification of the body, the power dynamics established by the photographic gaze, and our ability to empathize with the pain or pleasure of the other. "
I feel this is a very strong work and really hard to reflect on all the meanings one could interpret. For example, I think the pearls chosen as primary material for this work tries to make a reference of luxury and then so common established as beautiful and elegant. Yet, person reminds me of violence because of the position of the hands like she has her hands tied up. Also, the beautiful constructed ornament is covering all her face. So for me it works as a statement to what really defines beauty. The “crime” being related to “the act of covering the face”.
Designart
What is the difference between design and art discipline? Is there really a difference? Is a designer an artist? Or both?
“I think art and design are two different things. Design is about form and art is more about ideas. Not all art, but as a rule. Designers are interested in the form of things and the way form can be used to convey a message or to fill a certain purpose, whereas artists are generating the idea in the first place and then figuring out how to convey them.” David Shringley for Dezeen - Link -
For me, design focuses on functionality and human needs and problem-solving strategies. But for me it generates really impressive outcomes when it combines concept and art.
“Design art could be defined loosely as any artwork that attempts to play with the place, function, and style of art by commingling it with architecture, furniture and graphic design.” – Joe Scanlan, “Please Eat the Daisies”, 2001
"Depending on the angle of the light, the building transforms throughout the day. Passing rays of sunlight cast a distinct and varying patterns of leaves projected onto the interior surfaces, producing a subdued and comforting illumination."
Combining nature and architecture, light plays a center role in this progression. It is like a camouflage of the building and as it moves through the day it also gives a dynamic movement to the patterns made out of leaves.