PROJECT ” 1 + 1 “

ABOUT

Project “1+1” is a symbiosis of fashion art and photography. This project got known for it’s comparison of fashion to nature. But there also different comparisons, like fashion to art and architecture. This project got shown on social media and then it would say ‘Fashion inspired by Nature’, the joke is that the pictures are so well combined that it could be, but in reality the pictures are searched together.

CREATOR

Liliya Hudyakova

RULES

She picks designs of fashion shows from different designers and looks for/photographs nature/art that has a direct link to the fashion design.

COMMENT

I did doubt if this was a good example of open design. She did use rules and made a collection which is amazing to see. What I thought was very interesting is that this way of research could be used for actually making a design. For example people do only get their inspiration from nature.

FLUX CHAIR

ABOUT

Flux Furniture  is a chair that’s made of one specific rule that decided the whole collection. The creators wanted to create a chair that could be folded out of one piece. This for reasons like, it would make it easy to take it with you and it would be better for the environment in terms of fabrication and shipping. The creators are from TU Delft and they won a price when proposing the idea. They decided to team up and actually make this furniture, which has started from the chairs to actual bars. Fun fact: it’s also possible to custom the designs to, for example, chose a color or put your brand on it.

CREATORS

Tom Schouten and Douwe Jacobs

RULES/RESTRICTION

They started there project with the one simple rule, they wanted to make a chair (what later would be a whole line of furniture) foldable. This would take a lot of mathematics to get it right.

COMMENT

What I like about this project is that it has actually a sustainable aspect. The rule/restriction of making it foldable would make a very specific design and it isn’t only limited to one piece of furniture.

LINKS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYSDDiutWmg

http://www.fluxfurniture.com/

VITRUVIAN PAINTING MACHINE

ABOUT

The Vitruavian Paint Machine is a project that’s performed in the Van Abbemuseum. They made a painting on the walls which would by influenced by the visiting people. If visitors passed the painters it was possible to choose a color. Depending on the color and the people, the painters would change their painting.

CREATORS

The creators of this performance were Luna Maurer and Edo Paulus.

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

The creators worked with four different colors. Each color has a ‘rule-made-form’. But the creators weren’t the people who selected the colors, the audience did. So the audience would decide which color they had to use (next), so they decided partially what the painting would look like. The way of drawing would also change depending on how many people where in that room. The specific rules you can find on http://conditionaldesign.org/workshops/vitruvian-paint-machine/

COMMENT

This was a really interesting way of art I heard of in another class. I thought it was very interesting/fun that people could intervene and could decide what would happen next. It was very fun that we got the assignment to make drawings with rules of this kind of our own. It’s an easy example of intervening in someone’s project, but it does get amazing results.

THE JOHNNY CASH PROJECT

ABOUT

The ‘Johnny Cash Project’ is music video that is made by open source. The made the video with Johnny Cash and the idea is that someone who signs up for the project gets one frame so they could draw it. In this way they can be part of a music video which will become a living portrait of Johnny Cash.

CREATOR

Everyone is able to submit to the project, of course made the music video but in the end the creator could be you.

RULES/RESTRICTIONS

You don’t have to be a master in illustrator to participate. The only rule is that you get a picture/a frame that forms the basis of your drawing. You just have to use your creativity and imagination.

COMMENTS

I think this is a really fun experiment, and this isn’t the only one out there. Who wouldn’t want to be part of a music video? So many drawings in just a few minutes, I think it’s very interesting to see.

LINKS

http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/#

VEIL AND REVEAL – BRIT VAN NERVEN

ABOUT:

Brit van Nerven has asked women which parts of their bodies they are happy to reveal and which parts they would rather cover, and why. Opinions varied: from completely covered to completely revealing and everything in between. Veil and Reveal explores the nuances between these very personal demands. This modular collection of loose items has been based on the female body. They are literally ‘pieces of clothing’ in different kinds of fabric and different shades of black, that can be combined according to the user’s wishes. “Veil and Reveal is the representation of my research, through which I want to attach new values to fashion, ” Van Nerven says.

CREATOR:

Brit van Nerven

RULES AND RESTRICTONS:

Her collection was dependent on the different of women and their opinions.

COMMENT:

I like the way she used certain rules to her project and that it’s a collection that has different pieces of clothing that you can combine the way you want to. It also says something about different cultures, not everyone wants to reveal as much as someone else would. I think this is a really interesting way of looking at fashion.

LINKS:

http://www.designacademy.nl/EVENTS/ArchiveEvents/Graduation12/Project.aspx?ProjectId=281

a short movie shows the different pieces of her collection