Shapes of Light Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ihe Mkpuchi Olu Mara Mma nke Xiaoxi Zhang

Ihe emepụtara bụ Shapes of Light Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ihe Mkpuchi Olu Mara Mma nke Xiaoxi Zhang bụ onye meriri a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu nke 2022 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Igwe na Udi Asọmpi Nhazi Ihe Mgbakwunye Ejiji na Njem.

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Shapes of Light Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ihe Mkpuchi Olu Mara Mma

nke Xiaoxi Zhang

Onye Ahịa: Johnstons of Elgin

Onye Meriri Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Igwe na Udi Ihe Mgbakwunye

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Ederede Akwụkwọ: Shapes of Light bụ usoro ihe mkpuchi olu ka e ji ogho cashmere kpaa. Usoro a gụnyere atụmatụ atọ nke sitere n'ihe ndabara na okike na obodo ime obodo si nweta mmụọ ha: mgbawa anyanwụ n'elu oke osimiri, ọkụ ụlọ ndị dị n'obodo n'abalị, na ìhè ọnwa dị nro n'uhuruchi. Echiche ihe atụ ndị a ka e mere ka ha ghọọ ụdị ihe osise dị mfe na nke nwere ọdịdị geometrik iji kwado ọrụ ịkpa akwa. A na-eji agba na ịkpa akwa mee ihe mkpuchi olu ọ bụla n'ụlọ ọrụ dị na Scotland, e mesịakwa ejiri ọdịnala aka rụọ ọrụ iji mee ka elu ya dị nro na nro. Ebumnuche bụ ịtụgharị ihe onwunwe a na-eyi kwa ụbọchị ka ọ bụrụ ọrụ nka a pụrụ iyi eyi.

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Maka Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Igwe

Shapes of Light Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ihe Mkpuchi Olu Mara Mma meriri A' Design Award nke Igwe, nnabata dị ugwu e nyere design ndị dị mma nke na-emezu ihe ndị a chọrọ n'ọrụ na ụlọ ọrụ nke a na-atụ anya n'ihe e kere eke ndị e mere nke ọma. Ndị meriri na Igwe na-egosi nka buru ibu, ọkachamara dị elu, nghọta ọkachamara na ikike imepụta nke ndị kere ha. A na-atụ anya na Shapes of Light Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ihe Mkpuchi Olu Mara Mma ga-abụ ihe e kere eke a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya nke bụ ihe bara uru ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Igwe na-ejikọta ụzọ kacha mma nke ụlọ ọrụ ma nwee àgwà teknụzụ kwesịrị ekwesị jikọtara na ihe ọmụma na talent. A na-asọpụrụ Shapes of Light Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ihe Mkpuchi Olu Mara Mma maka nlezianya ya ma e mere ya ka ọ nye mmeziwanye ndụ nke na-enyere aka ime ka ụwa bụrụ ebe ka mma.

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Àgwà Pụrụ Iche: "Shapes of Light" is Nancy Zhang's special collaboration design series with the Scottish cashmere expert brand Johnstons of Elgins.

For the first time, Nancy expressed her illustration arts with textile technology. The theme of this collaboration "The shape of light" is an extension of her personal illustration project "Light seeker". She made 3 designs to express diverse forms of light: The sunrise on the sea, building lights in the city at night and the soft moonlight in the evening. Light shapes how the environment looks to us, yet the environment we constructed reshapes light in turn at the same time. Does light shape our appearance, or do we construct what light looks like?

It is not only a fashion design collaboration, but also an artistic endeavour.
Nha & Mkpuchi: Sunrise and Moonlight: Length 190mm x Width 35mm
Building light: Length 180mm x Width 25cm
Mkpado: Light, textile, geometric, cashmere, woven, gradient, artistic, scarf, abstract
Teknụzụ Mmepụta: Woven cashmere scarf series. The whole transforming process was like purification of the visual expressions. From dyeing to blending, carding to spinning, warping to weaving, knitting to teaselling and cutting to folding-it all happens in Johnstons of Elgins.

2 Ombres(Sunrise and Moonlight)：
Manufactured in Johsntons of Elgin, the craft design department and dye house worked together to create a unique blend of colours for the Ombre Oversized Classic Scarves. With the advanced jacquard machine, we can weave over 10 colours in one scarf and each colour is dyed in Elgin mill. From fiber to final products, on average of 33 craftspeople contribute to the making of each of our cashmere scarves. The signature ripple finish is achieved by using traditional hand-worked teasels to gently raise the surface or 'nap' of the completed accessory, achieving a beautifully soft handle.

Building light：
Manufactured in Johsntons of Elgin, the craft design department and dye house worked together to create a unique blend of colours for the Ombre Oversized Classic Scarves. On average of 33 craftspeople contribute to the making of each of our cashmere scarves. The mill uses use dobby loom to weave this particular cashmere scarf, and each colour is dyed in Elgin mill. The signature ripple finish is achieved by using traditional hand-worked teasels to gently raise the surface or 'nap' of the completed accessory, achieving a beautifully soft handle.
Ịma Aka Imepụta: As an illustrator and visual artist, the biggest challenge of this textile design collaboration was transforming the illustrations into woven textile patterns without losing the original conceptual expressions.

Considering the limitations of woven technology, we had to minimize the genomic shapes for the designs as much as possible. However, it turned out to be quite an enjoyable and meaningful challenge for us both. The whole transforming process was like purification of my visual expressions, which is the charm of the textile design.
Nchọpụta: In my opinion, this design series is not just a commercial collaboration but my attempt to seek a new form of project creation, transforming my personal project into a tangible painting. As the oldest form of humanistic art, textiles have always been very mature in the transformation of technology and contents. Product design is a way for us to touch and use literary and artistic creations in modern society. I call this collaboration series "The Shape of Light” as an extension of the theme of my personal painting project "Light Seekers". And all my research from my personal experiences in nature went into this: during traveling the seaside in the Izu Peninsula, a building lights view in Shanghai and the clear summer moonlight in Berlin. These physic phenomenon were turned into graphical ideas in my mind while I was looking at them. In other words, I would have painted them anyway with or without this design collaboration. It was a pleasure to work with the Johnstons of Elgin team, JOE is a cashmere textile expert in the industry. During the cooperation, I was able to entrust the technical realisation and manufacturing part to professionals. That was the ideal teamwork experience.
Mkpali: Design 1 Sunrise-The inspiration of this one comes from the natural phenomenon- the sunrise on the sea, visualised the graphics with stripes and gradient colours.

Design 2 Building Light-The inspiration comes from the city night view-warm building lights from people's perspective outside, design with plaid graphic.

Design 3 Moonlight- The inspiration was also from he natural phenomenon-soft moonlight in summer evening without clouds,
design with gradient colours.
Oge Ọrụ: This project designs started in February 2021 in Berlin, Germany and the products finished in September 2021 in Elgin, Scotland. Currently the goods are available in Shanghai, China.
Usoro Ọrụ: Scarves are one of the most common accessories to keep us warm during the winter type. Yet these kinds of daily, simple accessories could be "tangible", "wearable" art pieces as well. Based on "Movable Gallery on body" this key idea, the abstract drawings about different shapes of light were created, however, afterwards the graphics were slightly modified regarding to the woven technology requirements.Actually the final result turned out more minimal than before and it also gave people more space for imagining.Special thanks to the reliable collaboration team, it took more than 30 manufacturing steps and 33 craftspeople's involved in total to achieve the final results and everything went smoothly.
Patentị: Johnstons of Elgin (2021) Jenny Urquhart
Ndị Otu: Concept Artist/Creative Director:Xiaoxi Zhang
Craft Designer: Laura Garner
Craft Designer: Aisling Watt
Asụsụ Foto: Design&Illustration by Xiaoxi (Nancy) Zhang
Photography by Teasels(Shanghai) Trading Company Limited