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Cats In The Bag Ata Vali by Kozo Asada

Cats In The Bag Ata Vali by Kozo Asada is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Uʻamea in Mamanu Ata Fa'atusa Competition Category.


UʻameaAta Fa'atusa· 2021

Cats In The Bag Ata Vali

by Kozo Asada

Client: Kozo Asada

A' Design Award Uʻamea Winner in Ata Fa'atusa Category

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The Design

About Cats In The Bag Ata Vali

O Cats In The Bag o se faasologa o ata vali ua faapipiiina i faavaa e faaali mai pusi o malolo i totonu o taga. O galuega taitasi e faaataina ai se vaaiga faigofie o le olaga i aso taitasi ma se pusi. O le faasologa e faaali mai pusi lauulu umi, lauulu puupuu, ma e leai ni fulufulu, faatasi ma taga e eseese foliga. O ata vali e valiina i auala numera ma faapipii i luga o papa akalika e ala i le silk screen. E tele papa lomia ua faaputuputu i totonu o se faavaa faapitoa, faatasi ai ma pepa ma se laupepa tipi ua tuu i tua, ina ia foliga faatolutolu-vaega le ata pe a suia le tulaga vaai. O vaega faatafafa taitasi e 422 i le 422 milimita le tele.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Uʻamea

O le A' Design Award Uʻamea na manumalo ai Cats In The Bag Ata Vali, 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 Cats In The Bag Ata Vali 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 Cats In The Bag Ata Vali 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

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

Unique Properties
This is a project to bring the presence of cats into everyday life.
He drew a simple graphical representation of a cat and a bag, a scene that could exist in everyday life.
When you actually look at the work, it looks three-dimensional and therefore attracts your attention in your daily life.
The theme of the work is cats with a wide variety of hair, including long-haired, short-haired, and hairless cats.
She has also chosen to use bags with different appearances.
Dimensions & Packaging
Height:422mm x Width:422mm x Depth:50mm (including the frame)
Tags
cat, bag, illustration, art, silkscreen
Production Technology
He examined what methods are appropriate for fixing digitally painted illustrations to the acrylic plates.
A silk-screening technique was employed. We also experimented with a method of creating a three-dimensional effect by layering the acrylic plates.
An original picture frame is made to fit two acrylic plates.
Materials used: acrylic plate, silk screen, acryl gouache. paper, cutting seat.
Design Challenge
When you see a painting in an actual gallery.
Which size of exhibit looks the most beautiful?
Because of the distance between you and the person viewing your work and the influence of the lighting.
Which size of picture is best suited to create
He created and considered a variety of sizes.
For the display of this piece, there was a need to create the minimalist and simple presence of the illustration, so I
He made it a primitive square.
Research
The first thing we did was to investigate what types of cats there are.
They have different lengths and patterns of hair depending on the type.
It also has its own unique pose and big changes in appearance.
He have examined those differences in combination with the bag and the way it looks attractive.
Inspiration
This project was born from the essential relationship between cats and bags in daily life. It is common to see a cat sleeping in a bag or a plastic bag in daily life with a cat, which is a posterior neck.Cats are said to have always liked small spaces, and it is said that they used to protect themselves from enemies and to rest in small spaces. For cats kept in modern houses, the bag seemed to be used as a single nest for them.Watching them resting in their bags, as if the two had been that way from the beginning. I felt that the relationship was complementary to each other.
Project Duration
The project began in Tokyo in April 2016.
Solo exhibitions have been held in Tokyo and Hiroshima.
Operation Flow
Multiple silkscreened acrylic boards are stacked on top of each other, and paper and cutting sheets are placed at the bottom to create a single painting.
Between the acrylic boards, He put them in a special frame.
It is made to produce a three-dimensional effect by shifting the viewfinder's perspective from a few millimeters away.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Kozo, 2016
Team Members
Art Director: Kozo Asada, Illustrator: Kozo, Photographer: Arisa Kasai
Image Credits
Image 1: Illustration Kozo, Photographer Arisa Kasai, 2016 .
Optional Image 1: Illustration Kozo, Photographer Arisa Kasai, 2016.
Optional Image 2: Illustration Kozo, Photographer Arisa Kasai, 2016.
Optional Image 3: Illustration Kozo, Photographer Arisa Kasai, 2016.
Optional Image 4: Illustration Kozo, Photographer Arisa Kasai, 2016.

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