Crash Womenswear by Meng Ling Chung is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Ars Vestiaria Competition Category.

FerrumVestis· 2023

Crash Womenswear

by Meng Ling Chung

Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Vestis Category

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The Design

About Crash Womenswear

Vestigia in collectione Crash omnes fere imaginis interitum omnium imaginum post ruinam computatoriam. Excogitatoris ' memorias et opera omnia in caudices coloratos vertuntur: Singulae rectangulae cum singulari exemplari. Meng Ling haec pixmaps interpretatus est in structura vestis, eminens imago 2 dimensiva in corpus humanum 3 dimensiva. Praecipuum huius rei consilium est ratio vertiginis color et imaginum collocatio irrationabilis. Glitch essentia est constanter frangere et ordinare et perfectam invenire stateram.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum

Crash Womenswear victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Crash Womenswear creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. Crash Womenswear ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Could you live without your computer or smartphone? Once Meng Ling's computer crashed, it mercilessly devoured all her hard work. Her memories and works are all turned into colored blocks. Then she realized that the computer is her second brain, visualizing her imagination and storing her memories. Yet when the second brain died, she was desperate to explore all the past efforts left in her mind, but they all became blurred. Meng Ling was mourning for her past, ''remember'' they were supposed to be my duty, not my computer.
Dimensions & Packaging: Industry-standard size of S/M for women.
Tags: glitch art, clothing, chaotic,
Production Technology: After capturing thousands of images, Meng Ling redesigned the pixel images, disassembled and reassembled all the images, and printed them on silk and mesh fabrics. Since these are rectangular diagrams, the proportions of the human body have to be very carefully planned. The production process had to take into account the chromaticity and the harmony of the rectangle with the human body.
Design Challenge: Rectangular patterns often cause incongruent proportions in the configuration of the human body, and Meng Ling tried nearly a hundred sets of patterns in this regard. And the color is a very important part of glitch aesthetics. In addition to finding a balance point in discordant colors, it is also necessary to ensure that the printing quality cannot be distorted.
Research: The original intention of Meng Ling's work is about the glitch from the computer covers her memory. So in the beginning, she researched a series of glitch art and combined various glitch forms that her computer generated. Meng Ling thinks the main point of the view in this work is the dizzying color scheme and the unreasonable placement of images. The essence of glitch is to constantly break and reorganize, and find a perfect balance.
Inspiration: Designer, Meng Ling's computer was apparently not functioning anymore, and all the files were broken up into unintelligible graphics. She took screenshots of them one by one, trying to recognize the original picture from the blurry scene. There are obviously traces of my memory in each photo. So she started piecing together these enigmatic patterns like a jigsaw puzzle and putting them in prints to commemorate my old creations.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2020 in Beijing and finished in July 2020 in Taiwan.
Operation Flow: The prints in this collection are all about the image destruction of all my files after the computer crashed. Each rectangular pattern is unique. Meng Ling interprets these pixmaps into the structure of the garment, projecting the 2-dimensional image onto the 3-dimensional human body.
Image Credits: Image #1: Meng Ling Chung, Crash, 2020
Image #2: Meng Ling Chung, Crash, 2020
Image #3: Meng Ling Chung, Crash, 2020
Image #4: Meng Ling Chung, Crash, 2020
Image #5: Meng Ling Chung, Crash, 2020