Design Allstars

Design Allstars

Design Allstars featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Humpback Whale Song

The collection is inspired by, the humpback whales and their songs. The idea of the project started to develop during and after a deadly injury that happened to the designer of the project. she sought help from a sound engineer friend of hers, to extract the sound spectrum of the humpback whale song. The process was followed by the design of a new graphical pattern with reference to the main sound spectrogram. Due to the cubic form and pixelated nature of the final pattern, she travelled to city of Yazd home of ikat in Iran to create her very own handmade fabric.

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Utopia

In this collection, Yina Hwang was mainly inspired by shapes that are symmetric and asymmetric with a touch of underground music culture. She curated this collection based on her pivotal moment of self embracement to create a collection of functional yet abstract garments and accessories to embody the story of her experience. Every print and fabric in the project is original and she mainly used PU leather, Satin, Power Mash, and Spandex for the base of the fabrics.

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The Silk Road

This design tells about the Great Silk Road, a unique social phenomenon when the East became acquainted with the West and both worlds were enriched with knowledge of each other. Each item in the collection is made of natural fabrics and manually decorated with silk ribbons. Each item is a postcard from different places and tells its own story. Here you can see the rice terraces of China, and night in the Japanese garden, and patterns of wind on the sands in the desert, and feel the coolness of oases.

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Sense Move

Inspired by a famous choreographer - Yin Mei’s wise words “I can create an architecture space using my joints, which is already telling a story”, Sense Move Costume is a geometrical kinetic sculpture folding following along with the movement of the body. It communicates sensitively through the body movements of the dancers, and enhances the emotional transmission between the dancer and the audience. The different light effects express the costume’s emotions by the pressure sensor; for instance, a slow fade is breathing, and a flash conveys excitement.

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Kinematic Konnection

The Kinematic Konnection garment is intricately pieced with lasercut elements of translucent acrylic. The method of joinery was selected to parallel restrictions faced as an aspiring ballet dancer and the sacrifices made to fit unrealistic aesthetic standards of an antiquated industry. The pattern of this garment is constructed mathematically, meticulously considered by standards of form, fashion and functionality. Unlike the flow of fabricated textiles, this garment pushes technical boundaries through unparalleled juxtaposition.

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Oak Project

It has inspired genuinely from nature for creating Oak collection that trees and animals play the main role for designing the collection, animals that live freely in nature, free from the harms that humans cause in today's world. They applied the colors for the artworks based on the nature explicitly which are observed vividly through the nature. Besides, It designed the patterns in the form of carpets actual designing. They has performed all production process completely by hand and all the products will be in the form of handmade collection and winter hand-woven clothes.

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