Apart from footwear, I also have this big fascination for graphics or any 2 dimensional artform. So because of that, I started drawing. I kept drawing and drawing with the idea to visualize the illustrative world I have in my mind. In an abstract way, my illustrations are connected with the products I make; they inspire each other.
The essence of my illustrations is decoration. If you take out the decoration part, the illustrations won't have the same impact anymore. So I kind of started to see it as the main quality of my drawings. This made me wonder why I can't use this same way of thinking for my products (keeping in mind that decoration is like a mortal sin in the product design world).
So with that in mind, I started to approach the products I made with the same mindset. Eventually, I started to recognize decoration in the products I made aswell, but in a more abstract way. In a way, what I did with my shoes is not related to any technical functionality but instead purely based on aesthetics, which I now see as decoration.
Eventually these illustrations will also be exhibited next to my shoe collection at my graduation exhibition, next summer
The essence of my illustrations is decoration. If you take out the decoration part, the illustrations won't have the same impact anymore. So I kind of started to see it as the main quality of my drawings. This made me wonder why I can't use this same way of thinking for my products (keeping in mind that decoration is like a mortal sin in the product design world).
So with that in mind, I started to approach the products I made with the same mindset. Eventually, I started to recognize decoration in the products I made aswell, but in a more abstract way. In a way, what I did with my shoes is not related to any technical functionality but instead purely based on aesthetics, which I now see as decoration.
Eventually these illustrations will also be exhibited next to my shoe collection at my graduation exhibition, next summer
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