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Dance Anatomy Sieradencollectie by Ksenia Zagaynova

Dance Anatomy Sieradencollectie by Ksenia Zagaynova is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Platina in Sieradenontwerp Competition Category.


PlatinaSieraden· 2020

Dance Anatomy Sieradencollectie

by Ksenia Zagaynova

Client: Xenia Gai

A' Design Award in Platina Winner in Sieraden Category

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The Design

About Dance Anatomy Sieradencollectie

Dance Anatomy is een sieradencollectie geïnspireerd op hedendaagse dans. De drie objecten, geproduceerd in twee kleuren, herinterpreteren het menselijk lichaam door middel van bionische lijnen en vormen. Vaste dansposities werden bestudeerd, en spierspanning, ontspanning en strekking werden vertaald naar een vereenvoudigde grafische taal. De vormen zijn 3D-geprint in nylon, waardoor de stukken flexibel en bestand tegen beschadiging zijn. Twee van de drie objecten kunnen worden gedragen als oorbellen of als hangers, omdat het zilveren oorhaakje kan worden vervangen door een veter of een ketting.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Platina

Dance Anatomy Sieradencollectie is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Platina, een uiterst prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan werkelijk uitzonderlijke, elegante en magnifieke ontwerpen. De winnaars in Platina zijn wonderen van creatie, getuigenissen van de grenzen van intellectuele creativiteit en tonen het ongeëvenaarde professionalisme en genie van hun ontwerpers. Van deze ontwerpen wordt verwacht dat zij de meest vermaarde werken zijn die de esthetiek van een tijdperk bepalen, bijdragen aan het welzijn van de samenleving en de grenzen van kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie verleggen. Dance Anatomy Sieradencollectie toont een transcendent niveau van uitmuntendheid en maakt de wereld ongetwijfeld een betere plek met zijn voordelige en waardevolle kenmerken. Dance Anatomy Sieradencollectie is een werk dat de A' Design Award in Platina heeft gewonnen en dat verlangens oproept, inspireert, verrukt en grote vreugde doet ontvlammen.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The Dance Anatomy collection represents a reinterpretation of the human body. The lines and shapes look bionic and could remind any other organic creatures. They are 3D-printed in nylon which makes them flexible and damage-resistant. 2 objects can be worn as earrings or pendants after simple replacement of the earwire with a lace or chain.
Dimensions & Packaging
Object 1: H - 10 cm W - 5 cm D - 1.5 cm
Object 2: H - 10 cm W - 4.3 cm D - 1.5 cm
Object 3: H - 4 cm W - 7.2 cm D - 1.5 cm
Tags
jewelry, design, pendants, earrings, rings, dance
Production Technology
3D-modelling, 3D printing in nylon (polyamide). Silver earwire, textile lace.
The design was visualized in Rhinoceros, using Tsplines plugin.
Design Challenge
The hardest part of the research lied in the detection of the right principle that would allow transferring a dancer position into graphic language. The author studied different aspects of dancing, namely the geometry of different dance positions, the cinesphere of a dancing person but these principles did not lead to a necessary esthetic result. In the end the research of the muscles behavior allowed to achieve the right result.
Secondly, it was hard to create the 3D models of the objects as they consist of many lines that could not intersect.
Research
The objective of the research was to analyze the processes occurring in the body of a dancer and to choose a principle that would allow translating them into graphic language and into real objects. The designer took pictures of dancers in captured dance positions and analyzed muscle tension and stretching in different parts of their bodies. In order to detect the state of muscles the author consulted the anatomy book and a former dancer. The designer used a solid color for those muscles that were keeping balance and were the most tense, the waved lines - for muscles being more relaxed and straight lines - in order to show the stretched parts.
Inspiration
The Dance Anatomy collection was inspired by contemporary dance. In this work I studied the fixed positions of dancers and the processes existing in their bodies. For example, some muscles are tense and some are relaxed, others are stretched. I have translated these processes into the simplified graphic language and came up with the forms and silhouettes that further became wearable objects (earrings, pendants, rings).
Project Duration
The project started in April 2019 in Moscow and finished in the end of June 2019 in Moscow. It was exhibited in Zveno jewelry shop and gallery.
Operation Flow
There are 3 objects in this collection, represented in 2 colors. The 2 of 3 can be worn as earrings or pendants. The leather lace or silver ear fixture can be easily inserted and removed when needed.

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