Shapes of Light Kev Siv Tseem Ceeb: Ntaub Npog Caj Dab Rau Kev Zam Dhau los ntawm Xiaoxi Zhang

Qhov qauv tsim Shapes of Light Kev Siv Tseem Ceeb: Ntaub Npog Caj Dab Rau Kev Zam Dhau los ntawm Xiaoxi Zhang yog tus yeej muaj nqis heev ntawm qhov khoom plig 2022 A' Design Award Hlau hauv Pawg Sib Tw Tsim Khoom Ntxiv Khaub Ncaws Zam thiab Kev Mus Ncig.

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Shapes of Light Kev Siv Tseem Ceeb: Ntaub Npog Caj Dab Rau Kev Zam Dhau

los ntawm Xiaoxi Zhang

Tus Neeg Siv: Johnstons of Elgin

Tus Yeej A' Design Award Hlau hauv Pawg Khoom Ntxiv

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Txog Shapes of Light Kev Siv Tseem Ceeb: Ntaub Npog Caj Dab Rau Kev Zam Dhau

Ntawv Phau Ntawv: Shapes of Light yog ib pab ntaub npog caj dab uas siv cashmere ntos ua. Pab no muaj peb hom qauv uas tau txais kev tshoov siab los ntawm ntuj thiab lub nroog: hnub tuaj rau saum hiav txwv, teeb pom kev ntawm cov tsev loj hauv nroog thaum hmo ntuj, thiab lub duab hli ci mos mos rau thaum tsaus ntuj. Cov tswv yim kos duab tau raug hloov ua cov qauv ntos uas yog geometric thiab yooj yim kom haum rau txoj kev ntos. Txhua daim ntaub npog caj dab yog nchuav xim thiab ntos hauv ib lub tsev ntos ntaub nyob Scotland, thiab lub npoo saum toj tau muab ua kom nrog nres los ntawm txoj kev siv teasel ua tes raws li kev cai qub kom tau ib qho zoo mos. Lub hom phiaj yog xav hloov ib yam khoom siv niaj hnub kom los ua ib daim duab kos kev ntaub npog uas neeg tuaj yeem hnav.

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Txog A' Design Award Hlau

Shapes of Light Kev Siv Tseem Ceeb: Ntaub Npog Caj Dab Rau Kev Zam Dhau yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Hlau, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom uas muab rau cov qauv tsim zoo uas ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau ntawm kev ua haujlwm thiab kev lag luam uas xav tau los ntawm cov khoom tsim zoo. Cov neeg yeej Hlau qhia txog kev txawj loj, kev paub tshwj xeeb siab, kev nkag siab ntawm cov kws tshaj lij thiab lub peev xwm tsim ntawm cov neeg tsim. Shapes of Light Kev Siv Tseem Ceeb: Ntaub Npog Caj Dab Rau Kev Zam Dhau xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom tsim uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub uas siv tau thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Hlau no sib xyaw cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev lag luam thiab muaj cov yam ntxwv siv tshuab txawj ntse txuas nrog kev paub thiab txuj ci. Shapes of Light Kev Siv Tseem Ceeb: Ntaub Npog Caj Dab Rau Kev Zam Dhau tau txais kev hwm vim nws tag nrho thiab tsim los muab kev txhim kho rau lub neej uas pab ua rau lub ntiaj teb zoo dua.

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Cov credit, cov neeg pab thiab cov ntsiab lus kev txawj ntse muab los ntawm tus tsim.

Yam Tshwj Xeeb: "Shapes of Light" is Nancy Zhang's special collaboration design series with the Scottish cashmere expert brand Johnstons of Elgins.

For the first time, Nancy expressed her illustration arts with textile technology. The theme of this collaboration "The shape of light" is an extension of her personal illustration project "Light seeker". She made 3 designs to express diverse forms of light: The sunrise on the sea, building lights in the city at night and the soft moonlight in the evening. Light shapes how the environment looks to us, yet the environment we constructed reshapes light in turn at the same time. Does light shape our appearance, or do we construct what light looks like?

It is not only a fashion design collaboration, but also an artistic endeavour.
Qhov Loj & Ntim: Sunrise and Moonlight: Length 190mm x Width 35mm
Building light: Length 180mm x Width 25cm
Cov Ntsiab Lus: Light, textile, geometric, cashmere, woven, gradient, artistic, scarf, abstract
Thev Naus Laus Zis Tsim Khoom: Woven cashmere scarf series. The whole transforming process was like purification of the visual expressions. From dyeing to blending, carding to spinning, warping to weaving, knitting to teaselling and cutting to folding-it all happens in Johnstons of Elgins.

2 Ombres(Sunrise and Moonlight)：
Manufactured in Johsntons of Elgin, the craft design department and dye house worked together to create a unique blend of colours for the Ombre Oversized Classic Scarves. With the advanced jacquard machine, we can weave over 10 colours in one scarf and each colour is dyed in Elgin mill. From fiber to final products, on average of 33 craftspeople contribute to the making of each of our cashmere scarves. The signature ripple finish is achieved by using traditional hand-worked teasels to gently raise the surface or 'nap' of the completed accessory, achieving a beautifully soft handle.

Building light：
Manufactured in Johsntons of Elgin, the craft design department and dye house worked together to create a unique blend of colours for the Ombre Oversized Classic Scarves. On average of 33 craftspeople contribute to the making of each of our cashmere scarves. The mill uses use dobby loom to weave this particular cashmere scarf, and each colour is dyed in Elgin mill. The signature ripple finish is achieved by using traditional hand-worked teasels to gently raise the surface or 'nap' of the completed accessory, achieving a beautifully soft handle.
Kev Sib Tw Tsim Qauv: As an illustrator and visual artist, the biggest challenge of this textile design collaboration was transforming the illustrations into woven textile patterns without losing the original conceptual expressions.

Considering the limitations of woven technology, we had to minimize the genomic shapes for the designs as much as possible. However, it turned out to be quite an enjoyable and meaningful challenge for us both. The whole transforming process was like purification of my visual expressions, which is the charm of the textile design.
Kev Tshawb Fawb: In my opinion, this design series is not just a commercial collaboration but my attempt to seek a new form of project creation, transforming my personal project into a tangible painting. As the oldest form of humanistic art, textiles have always been very mature in the transformation of technology and contents. Product design is a way for us to touch and use literary and artistic creations in modern society. I call this collaboration series "The Shape of Light” as an extension of the theme of my personal painting project "Light Seekers". And all my research from my personal experiences in nature went into this: during traveling the seaside in the Izu Peninsula, a building lights view in Shanghai and the clear summer moonlight in Berlin. These physic phenomenon were turned into graphical ideas in my mind while I was looking at them. In other words, I would have painted them anyway with or without this design collaboration. It was a pleasure to work with the Johnstons of Elgin team, JOE is a cashmere textile expert in the industry. During the cooperation, I was able to entrust the technical realisation and manufacturing part to professionals. That was the ideal teamwork experience.
Kev Txhawb Siab: Design 1 Sunrise-The inspiration of this one comes from the natural phenomenon- the sunrise on the sea, visualised the graphics with stripes and gradient colours.

Design 2 Building Light-The inspiration comes from the city night view-warm building lights from people's perspective outside, design with plaid graphic.

Design 3 Moonlight- The inspiration was also from he natural phenomenon-soft moonlight in summer evening without clouds,
design with gradient colours.
Lub Sij Hawm Ua Hauj Lwm: This project designs started in February 2021 in Berlin, Germany and the products finished in September 2021 in Elgin, Scotland. Currently the goods are available in Shanghai, China.
Txheej Txheem Ua Hauj Lwm: Scarves are one of the most common accessories to keep us warm during the winter type. Yet these kinds of daily, simple accessories could be "tangible", "wearable" art pieces as well. Based on "Movable Gallery on body" this key idea, the abstract drawings about different shapes of light were created, however, afterwards the graphics were slightly modified regarding to the woven technology requirements.Actually the final result turned out more minimal than before and it also gave people more space for imagining.Special thanks to the reliable collaboration team, it took more than 30 manufacturing steps and 33 craftspeople's involved in total to achieve the final results and everything went smoothly.
Cov Patent: Johnstons of Elgin (2021) Jenny Urquhart
Cov Tswv Cuab Pab: Concept Artist/Creative Director:Xiaoxi Zhang
Craft Designer: Laura Garner
Craft Designer: Aisling Watt
Kev Qhuas Duab: Design&Illustration by Xiaoxi (Nancy) Zhang
Photography by Teasels(Shanghai) Trading Company Limited