Old designs meet digital tech. at Bratislava Institute
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During their last semester, the students at the Studio of Fiber Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD), Bratislava, carried out an interesting project on digital jacquard weaving. Read more about the idea behind the project as well as the take a look at the pictures!
The project was a cooperation between The Museum of Design in Bratislava and the Studio of Fiber Art at AFAD Bratislava: The Museum provided a collection of old Slovak chairs where the project was focused on redesigning of the actual seat fabrics.
Each chair in the collection had a different character, reflecting the typical atmosphere of their age: The chairs were from the 50-ies through the 70-ies to the 80-ies.
The students initially had no big respect for the iconic designs, and they boldly changed the character of the fabrics, and arrived at unexpected solutions!
As an inspiration, they used cultural and social aspects from each period. They studied important events and significant people within each particular time period. After a thorough research, they transformed their acquired knowledge into jacquard woven textiles.
For example, student Diana Elischerova designed an upholstery fabric which reflected the communist government. She was not born during this time, so she interviewed her parents and family. She designed a fabric with linear black and white decor, which symbolized the difficult conditions in former Czechslovakia.
Beata Gerbocova was inspirated by graphic design of the 60-ies; This period was also called the “Golden 60-ies”. The period was strong in graphic design, posters and book cover designs. She made a design by mixing graphics from books covers, posters and LPs. She designed in black and white with the yellow text “Golden 60-ies”.
Karolina Mrazkova redesigned her upholstery of chairs with humor: The chair was from around 1980. Karolina was inspired by Favorit, a popular car made by Skoda. This car had characteristic angular lights and red and orange colours.
Lucia Seppova worked with a motif from old vector-based computer games. Kristina Tomankova was fascinated by LPs found in her father’s room: It was full of records from the 80-ies. The project is a bridge between history and present times, between old design and modern digital technology.
(Text and pictures courtesy: Beata Gerbocova from AFAD, Bratislava)
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