Carnovsky's RGB Wallpaper

For the Milan Design Week, Italian studio Carnovsky created a series of wallpapers that react to different coloured lights. The designs were created for the Milan shop of Janelli & Volpi, a noted Italian wallpaper brand. Each features overlapping illustrations, different elements of which are revealed depending on whether a blue, green or red light is shone upon them.

Interactive Print & Touch Reactive Ink

Technology is not something always influencing our daily life in an intrusive way: it can be hidden, it can be a passive tool or an artificial entity that reacts autonomously to our needs.Thanks to this feature, technology can play a big role in creating both emotional and functional environments.

Shi Yuan is a chinese designer, interested in visual communication and typography. He developed the project “design with life” where the goal is making everyday objects - that are normally passive - more alive and active. This goal makes this project a good example to inspire sustainable interaction design projects.

Sample & Pattern Books

Above

'Kelpie' wallpaper sample and photograph of room set 1976. From 'Studio One', a pattern book of vinyl wallpapers in the Vymura range, produced by ICI (Ltd) Paints Division Screen print.

Test Photography

Urban Design Inspriration - Village Green

Village Green

Left

Album art for The Rapture constructed from cut paper, representative of the post-punk

and dance music scene. Village Green 2006.

Below Left

Becks Fusions in association with the ICA transformed

Trafalgar Square for an evening of music and art, incorporating

key characteristics of musical genres. Village Green 2007.

Below Right

Deadly Avenger Blossoms and Blood albums and single campaign. Village Green 2007.

Brief Development

The Observation

Urban Tribalism defines a generation where subculture has moved into a different existence, fixated around musical influence.

This new cultural arrangement is less formal and has similarities in common grounds rather than strict ones.

Those groupings which have traditionally been theorised as coherent subcultures are better understood as a series of temporal gatherings characterized by fluid boundaries and floating memberships.

Using Maffesoli's subcultural study theory of 'tribes' refers to contemporary urban dance music's musical and visual style as 'exemplifying the essential eclecticism of post-war youth culture'.

The Outcome

A tableaux of interactive prints that respond to the heat of touch to reveal extended narrative and play with the original narrative, illustrating the fluidity of Urban Tribalism in postsubcultural society, with contrast to the fixed subcultural theory of past years.

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A sample book that presents each design beautifully in context with foreword and accompanying written narrative.

The Objectives

- Identify and assess how symbols are used in urban tribal culture to represent and communicate the contemporary existence of

youth identity.

- Create from extensive research of theory and field, visual narratives that accurately and beautifully define and represent our generation and speak about new tribalism in 2010 through a variety of mediums including illustration and photography.

- Communicate formed narratives that exhibit the nature and ideology of urban tribal culture in an evocative way, through interactive print, publication and installation.

Symbols of the 'Urban Tribe'

In tribal youth culture, constructing identites by appropriating objects - bricolage, is central to personal style as it was in the past. We take items and alter their meanings to represent who we are. In contemporary society this means clothing and music but also technology and digital representation.

Lumberjack Mod &

HipHop Chic