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Dance Anatomy Kolekcia šperkov by Ksenia Zagaynova

Dance Anatomy Kolekcia šperkov by Ksenia Zagaynova is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Platinová cena A' Design Award in Šperky Competition Category.


PlatinováŠperky· 2020

Dance Anatomy Kolekcia šperkov

by Ksenia Zagaynova

Client: Xenia Gai

Platinová cena A' Design Award Winner in Šperky Category

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The Design

About Dance Anatomy Kolekcia šperkov

Dance Anatomy je kolekcia šperkov inšpirovaná súčasným tancom. Tri objekty, vyrobené v dvoch farbách, reinterpretujú ľudské telo prostredníctvom bionických línií a tvarov. Skúmané boli fixné tanečné pozície a svalové napätie, uvoľnenie a natiahnutie boli pretavené do zjednodušeného grafického jazyka. Formy sú 3D tlačené z nylonu, vďaka čomu sú kusy flexibilné a odolné voči poškodeniu. Dva z troch objektov možno nosiť ako náušnice alebo ako prívesky, pretože strieborný náušnicový háčik možno nahradiť šnúrkou alebo retiazkou.

The Recognition

About the Platinová cena A' Design Award

Dance Anatomy Kolekcia šperkov je laureát Platinovej ceny A' Design Award, mimoriadne prestížneho uznania udeľovaného skutočne výnimočným, elegantným a veľkolepým dizajnom. Laureáti Platinovej ceny sú divy tvorby, svedectvá hraníc intelektuálnej kreativity a preukazujú nenapodobniteľný profesionalizmus a génius svojich dizajnérov. Od takýchto dizajnov sa očakáva, že budú najuznávanejšími dielami, ktoré definujú estetiku doby, prispievajú k blahu spoločnosti a posúvajú hranice umenia, vedy, dizajnu a technológie. Dance Anatomy Kolekcia šperkov vykazuje transcendentnú úroveň dokonalosti a nepochybne robí svet lepším miestom svojimi prospešnými a hodnotnými vlastnosťami. Dance Anatomy Kolekcia šperkov je dielo ocenené Platinovou cenou A' Design Award, ktoré vzbudzuje túžby, inšpiruje, vzrušuje, teší a vyvoláva veľkú radosť.

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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