Prata Xoiería · 2021
Eastern Blocks Xoias de Formigón
- A' Design Award de Prata 2021 in Xoiería
- CLIENT: Celsius 273
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 29,597
- Verification code 2B5EFE80D3 · Verify this award
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About Eastern Blocks Xoias de Formigón
Eastern Blocks é unha colección de xoias de formigón inspirada nos bloques de vivendas prefabricadas de Europa do Leste. A colección inclúe colares e pendentes que seguen as formas dos edificios de apartamentos prefabricados. Emprégase o formigón porque é un material lixeiro, non alérxico e que non se rompe con facilidade. Cada peza comeza como un debuxo tridimensional, seguido de prototipos e moldes de silicona para o fundido. As pezas de formigón acabadas únense despois con prata e coiro. A colección convida a mirar dun xeito renovado o patrimonio arquitectónico de Europa do Leste.
About the A' Design Award de Prata
Eastern Blocks Xoias de Formigón gañou o A' Design Award de Prata, un recoñecemento enormemente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de gama alta, fermosos e impresionantes. Os gañadores Prata son obras tremendamente brillantes e sumamente creativas que ilustran a pericia, o talento e a agudeza sobresaíntes dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Eastern Blocks Xoias de Formigón sexa unha obra marabillosa, escaparate de oficio, notablemente profesional e profundamente innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Prata é unha invención moi notable e admirada que beneficia e fai avanzar os límites da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía. Eastern Blocks Xoias de Formigón é unha creación moi envexada que esperta desexos, achega sentimentos positivos e prende asombro e marabilla.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This design is wearable architecture. Concrete material and brutalist design with the story behind makes these accessories more than wearable - it's an educational, fashionable manifesto about architectural heritage and society.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Necklaces approx.17.5 cm x 15.5 cm and other 18x11 thickness 0.5- 1 cm. Earrings 4x2 cm concrete detail and optional 5-9 cm silver wire long. Other earrings 14.5x2 cm.
- Tags
- concrete jewelry, architectural jewelry, eastern european, blockhouses, brutalist jewelry, soviet architecture, brutalist architecture, jewelry artist, jewelry designer,
- Production Technology
- I chose concrete material - light, non-allergenic, and less fragile to create an ode of a brutalist dystopia. First of all, I designed 3d drawings, made prototypes, and then, started to create molds for concrete details with silicon. When the concrete pieces were finished, I started metalworking with silver and leather materials.
- Design Challenge
- To find a form, which would be understandable, that it's blockhouse jewelry, but minimalist, aesthetic and impressive.
- Research
- I made monitoring of the architecture and society attitude of Eastern European houses. My objective was to find a way, how to talk about post-Soviet society and Eastern European architecture heritage in fashion accessories. The main point is to start a discussion with locals' minds about this unique architecture and spread this wearable message. In this collection, I question people’s attitudes towards Soviet heritage and invite you to take a fresh look at Soviet architecture and society's illusions.
- Inspiration
- The collection was inspired by Eastern European panel blockhouses as an iconic modern community symbol. Shapes of panel buildings and us - people, who live in individuality fiction, because the truth is that only a few centimeters between the walls separate us and our individuality is just fiction in this world.
- Project Duration
- This project started as an idea 2018 but I finished this collection 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Wearable jewelry made of concrete. Light, strong, and non - allergic material make jewelry more comfortable and wearable. This technology and design give a chance to wear architecture in real form and material as a piece of jewelry.
- Image Credits
- Photographer: Ieva Rudzionyte Model: Paulina Judzinskyte, Make up and hair: Indrija Kneize
Video credits:
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Model: Gabija Rostovskyte
