Kata Nóra Eifert, Portfolio, 2017

Textile Design BA

PORTFOLIO Kata Nรณra Eifert 2017 Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

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Bag designs

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Knitting and silicone collection

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MiliPaly bag collection

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Shoe designs

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Galoshes of fortune

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Modern lotus shoes

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Knitwear designs

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Curriculum Vitae

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Knitted secret: QR code Norwegian fever The light-painting collection

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Bag designs

Bag designs

Knitting and silicone collection Design project: leather 2015-16 fall semester Tutor: Judit BrĂĄda

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During our first bag desiging project we had to design an accessorie collection. The bags cutting pattern has to contain only one piece. I was determined to use my own knitted fabric as tha material of the bags, because I wanted to combine my two majors: knitting and leather design. The base of every piece is the same sized, seamless knitted sack. I combine knitted fabric with an alternative material, that can help to strenghten and stiffen this soft material in the right places, without totally loosing its flexibility, so I chose moldabe silicone rubber, wich can be firmly applicated into the knitted fabric’s structure. Duo to the silicon’s high formability, bag straps, closings, and all kind of classical bag accessories can be replaced by silicon rubber.

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Knitting and silicone collection

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MiliPaly bag collection Design project: leather 2015-16 spring semester Tutors: Judit Bráda, Réka Vágó

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MiliPaly táska kollekció

MiliPaly bag collection

The task were to design a bag collection for one of our teachers. I designed for Pál Józsa, our drawing teacher. During consultations, we discussed what type of bag he wants, what are his needs about it, what is he gonna use it for, etc… His main expectations against the bag were high carrying capacity, simple inside (up to two pockets), long-lasting. He has a wish for the look too: he wanted military bags, as the source of inspiration, especially cow hide military backpacks, wich were used by the swiss army around 1930. I designed a unisex bag collection. I used the details of the cow hide military bags in my design: wooden strap-holder, heavy metal accessories, natural leather, adjustable straps. I also inspired by the silhuettes of these bags

Bag designs

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MiliPaly bag collection

Bag designs

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Shoe designs

Modern lotus shoes Design project: leather 2016-17 fall semester Tutor: Réka Vágó The first shoe design project was to design and make a pair of shoes inspired by an era, or a particular kind of shoes from the history of shoes. I chose the chinese lotus shoes, and feet binding. From the 10th century, started to modify the shape and size of their feet with breaking their bones, and binding it, because extremely tiny, lotusleaf-shaped feet was the symbol of beauty. The painfull procedure’s result was around 4 inches small footlenght. Lotus shoes were enhance the tiny look of the feet. Its a really mysterious piece of shoes, almost like a lingerie. My goal was to create a modern version of lotus shoes, and unmask the mistery of the scturcute of the shoes. I used transparent fabrics for the upper, and a see-through material, epoxi resin for the sole.

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Galoshes of fortune

Shoe designs

Galoshes of fortune Design project: leather and knitting 2017-18 spring semester Tutors: Ildikó Kele, Réka Vágó

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Our diploma project was that we had to chose on tale, as an inspiration source, and our two majors (mine is leather and knitting design) diploma work has to be one, big collection. I chose a less known tale from Hans C. Andersen, The galoshes of fortune. It is about a young fairy, the assistant of Dame Fortune.

The Dame Fortune gives the young fairy with a bigger task, as birthday gift. She came up with the idea of a special galoshes. „These galoshes have this peculiarity, that whoever puts them on will immediatelly find himself in whatever time, place, and condition of life that he prefers.” The inexperienced, naive, I could say career entrant fairytought the galoshes will bring happiness, and joy to people’s life, but instead, it brought a lots of complication. In the end, the young fairy learned the lesson. In one hand, I ispired by the fairy’s personality: young, fresh, bubbling, naive, ont he other hand I inspired by the galoshes, wich is a waterproof shoes that can be pulled onto the regular shoes to protect them.

I used my own knitte fabric for the uppers, wich are knitted from one piece. I didn’t used cutting, and thanks to different knitting methods, they fits perfectly the form of the feet. I also made a modern version of galoshes, wich can be pulled onto the knitted shoes to protect them from the rain. I used PVC folie, wich has that advantige, that can be easily trasfor with heat treatment, so I didn’t had to use cutting lines to get the shape of the shoes.

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Knitwear designs

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Knitted secret: QR code

Knitwear designs

Knitted secret: QR code Design project: knitting 2015-16 spring semester Tutor: Ildikó Kele The task were to knit a sweater that tells a secret about us. I decided to knit a QR code into the sweater. This code can be scanned in with a smartphone application, and a website pops up, wich pretend to tell my secret, but the trick is, that when you push the „Tell me the secret!” button, only an ERROR message came up, so my secret stay untold.

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Knitwear designs

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Norwegian fever

Knitwear designs

Norwegian fever Design project: knitting 2015-16 spring semester Tutor: Ildikรณ Kele

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The task were to chose a traditional sweater and cardigan type from the history of knitwear, and somehow transform it, in a fashionable, modern and innovative way.

I chose norwegian sweaters, namely the Lusenkofte cardigan and the Marius sweater. My goal was to deform these classical cuts, like they were having the feeling of the fevered body: the feeling of melting, distorting and flaming. I used the stylized version of the norway pattern, and the colours of the norway wood-houses

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The light-painting collection

Knitwear designs

The light-painting collection Design project: lknitting 2016-17 fall semester Tutor: Kriszta Remete 43 The light-painting collection

I did a research about how artists captured a movement in one still picture, or object (paintings, drawings, body art, sculptures, photos, etc‌) and I chose one of these techniques: the light-painting. This is a photography technique: the camera can capture rhe moving light’s way with long shutter speed explosure. I wanted to make my own light paintings, capturing the movement of the process of dressing up. I attached LEDs on my limbs, and I exposed with long shutter speed while I was putting on different piece of clothes. I designed patterns from these light-paintings, and I used them in my knitted clothes as a pattern.

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Tellabor társulat: prométheusz

Kulcsár Noémi kortárs tánc társulatának egyik darabján, a Prométheusz c. előadáson a táncosok jelmeze a Fényfestés kollekció volt. Az előadás a Mu Színház színpadán szerepelt.

Eifert Kata NĂłra

Curriculum Vitae

Studies 2014-2017| Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Textildesign BA, Leather design and Knitted fabric and product design Moholy-Nagy University is the most acknowledged design school in Hungary. This year I got my BA degree as a textile designer. Here, I learnt not just about designing a product, but making it too. In paralell with design classes, we had different art- and design history, economy, and technology, painting, sculpturing, social design, theoretical design, etc.classes.

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200o-2014| Modell Divatiskola Secondary- and Vocational School of Applied arts, Clothing- and Leather Industry

Curriculum Vitae

Textile design and garment modelling During my Secondary School years I learned the basics of textile designing, and gained technological skills like pattern making, cutting, drawing, etc. Besides working with fabric, and make garments, we had the chance to learn to use digital graphic programmes confidently.

During the final exams I got my Intermediate English language exam.

Work experience 2017| Tellabor company- Prometheus

Custome designer It was an exiting project with a hungarian contemporary dance company. They used my collection as costume for one of their theatre performance, Prometheus, wich was a collaborative project with musicians. The musicians were on the stage with the dancers, who mixed their movements with monologues.

2015| REKAVAGO

Junior designer assistant intern Between two semesters, in the summer, I worked as an intern for Hungary’s well-known shoe designer, brand, REKAVAGO. I gained insights into how a designer brand works, from the begining of the designing process, through production, campaigns, until the shoeboxes arrived to the store, waiting for costumers.

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Knitted and silicone collection Photo: Gergely Tarján MUA: Gloria Horvath Model: Liliana Zátonyi MiliPaly bag collection Photo: Dorottya Bokros Models: Attila Egyed, Kamilla Szarka Galoshes of fortune Photo: Gergely Tarján MUA: Gloria Horvath Model: Liliana Zátonyi Knitted secret: QR code Photo: Dorottya Bokros Model: Kamilla Szakrka

The light-painting collection Photo: Dorottya Bokros MUA: Júlia Marton Model: Karina Szabó The Light-painting collection x Tellabor Photo: Herbsfoto. Csilla Zelkó Dancers: Zoltán Csere, Anikó Kiss, Domokos Kovács, Anna Rubi, Luca Stohl Musicians: Albert Márkos, Áron Porteleki

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Norwegian fever Photo: Dorottya Bokros Model: Kamilla Szarka