Eastern Blocks Barang Kemas Konkrit by Gerda Liudvinaviciute

Eastern Blocks Barang Kemas Konkrit by Gerda Liudvinaviciute is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Perak in Reka Bentuk Barang Kemas Competition Category.

PerakBarang Kemas· 2021

Eastern Blocks Barang Kemas Konkrit

by Gerda Liudvinaviciute

Client: Celsius 273

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Barang Kemas Category

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The Design

About Eastern Blocks Barang Kemas Konkrit

Eastern Blocks ialah koleksi barang kemas konkrit yang diilhamkan oleh blok rumah panel Eropah Timur. Koleksi ini merangkumi rantai leher dan anting-anting yang mengikut bentuk bangunan pangsapuri pasang siap. Konkrit digunakan kerana bahan ini ringan, tidak menyebabkan alahan dan tidak mudah pecah. Setiap karya bermula sebagai lukisan tiga dimensi, diikuti oleh prototaip dan acuan silikon untuk penuangan. Bahagian konkrit yang siap kemudiannya dicantumkan dengan perak dan kulit. Koleksi ini menjemput pandangan segar terhadap warisan seni bina Eropah Timur.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Eastern Blocks Barang Kemas Konkrit ialah pemenang A' Design Award Perak, pengiktirafan yang sangat berprestij yang dianugerahkan kepada reka bentuk bertaraf tinggi, indah dan mengagumkan. Pemenang Perak ialah karya yang amat cemerlang dan sangat kreatif yang menggambarkan kepakaran, bakat dan ketajaman fikiran yang luar biasa pereka bentuknya. Eastern Blocks Barang Kemas Konkrit diharapkan menjadi karya yang menakjubkan, contoh teladan, sangat profesional dan sangat inovatif. Reka bentuk pemenang A' Design Award Perak ini ialah ciptaan yang sangat ketara dan dikagumi yang memberi manfaat kepada dan memajukan batas seni, sains, reka bentuk dan teknologi. Eastern Blocks Barang Kemas Konkrit ialah ciptaan yang sangat dicemburui yang membangkitkan keinginan, membawa perasaan positif dan mencetuskan rasa hairan serta kagum.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

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.
Team Members: Designer and artist Gerda Liudvinaviciute (artist name CELSIUS 273).
Image Credits: Photographer: Ieva Rudzionyte Model: Paulina Judzinskyte, Make up and hair: Indrija Kneize
Video credits:
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Model: Gabija Rostovskyte