Splash Ata Faatusa by Maria Bradovkova is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Uʻamea in Faatufugaga Maualuga Competition Category.

UʻameaFaatufugaga Maualuga· 2020

Splash Ata Faatusa

by Maria Bradovkova

Client: Maria Bradovkova

A' Design Award Uʻamea Winner in Faatufugaga Maualuga Category

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The Design

About Splash Ata Faatusa

Ata o se galuega patino na faia e Maria Bradovkova. O lana sini ia faʻatino lona mafaufau fatufatuga ma le le maitauina o mafaufauga. Ua tusia i latou i metotia masani - lanu vaitusi i luga o pepa. O le faʻalauiloaina o le vaitusi i le amataga o le vaʻai ma musumusuga mo ata taʻitasi. Sa ia matauina le le masani ai foliga o le vali ata seia ona ia vaaia sina faailoga o i ai. Na ia faaopoopoina auiliiliga ma laina laina. O le ata lafoai o splash na liua i foliga faafaatusa. Taitasi ata faaalia eseese tagata pe manu uiga i lagona lagona.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Uʻamea

O le A' Design Award Uʻamea na manumalo ai Splash Ata Faatusa, o se faamaoniga mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu lelei e faataunuu ai manaʻoga faapolofesa ma pisinisi e faamoemoeina mai galuega ua mamanuina lelei. O ē manumalo i le Uʻamea e faaalia ai le tomai tele, le faapitoa maualuga, le malamalama o tagata poto ma le mafai fatufatuaʻi o ē na faia. E faamoemoeina Splash Ata Faatusa e avea ma mea ua matuā vivii, mataʻina ma pelepelea e aogā ma fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Uʻamea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili o le pisinisi ma e iai uiga faatekonolosi mafai ua fesoʻotaʻi ma le poto ma le taleni. Ona o lona faatuatuaina, e tatau ai Splash Ata Faatusa ona faaaloalogia ma ua mamanuina e tuuina mai ai faaleleiga o le olaga e fesoasoani e faia ai e le lalolagi se nofoaga e sili atu ona lelei.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Project consists of five illustrations. Each drawing started from a random splash of ink later detailed with linear drawing. Topic of illustrations was not planned before. Bradovkova let splash of ink to inspire and lead her. Each has its own dominant color — blue, vine red or brown. Drawings represent human or animalistic characters in emotional moment of lament, instinct, fear, melancholy and sadness.
Dimensions & Packaging: 123 x 93 mm
155 x 132 mm
Tags: drawing, illustration, ink, creative process, splash, linear drawing, intuitive drawing, intuitive art
Production Technology: Ink, pencil, marker, white crayon on paper.
Design Challenge: The challenge was to find harmony between abstraction and figuration. Not to change the form of splash but to make the most of it. Secondly to handle composition of whole picture.
Research: Bradovkova used playful and creative method in her drawing project. She combined organic form of watercolor with linear drawing. She created original and expressive characters.
Inspiration: Drawings represent personal project of Maria Bradovkova which she did as an exercise to challenge her creativity and abstract thinking. Presented works are part of series Drawing just today challenge, that she accomplished one drawing per day during October 2019 and published on her Instagram. The main idea was to be inspired by abstract irregular shapes of ink.
Project Duration: Illustrations were made during October 2019 in Cracow, Poland.
Operation Flow: Presented project can be an inspiration for creators to use this method in their own practice, to expand creativity and intuitive drawing. It allows subconscious to give a voice. Illustrations give space to feel and create stories.
Image Credits: Image #1: Illustrator Maria Bradovkova, Lament, 2019.
Image #2: Illustrator Maria Bradovkova, Instinkt, 2019.
Image #3: Illustrator Maria Bradovkova, Fear, 2019.
Image #4: Illustrator Maria Bradovkova, Melancholy, 2019.
Image #5: Illustrator Maria Bradovkova, Sadness, 2019.