KADK- Graduation winter 14

TACTUS

Sofie Schou Madsen Fashion Design sesamsofie@gmail.com thefolio.org/sofie-schou

My work questions the materials we use and how we choose to combine them. I look at the contrasts and tensions that exist in the combinations of unexpected materials. My work reflects an appreciation of clean silhouettes, attention to detail, quality and finish.

Fashion for me is about really understanding fabric and letting it guide you.

For my thesis project I have worked with contrasts between natural and synthetic fibres and coating different fabrics with liquid silicone so that it would subtle decoration to the fabric as well as finishing the edges.

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SPONSORS: Danalim, Kvadrat, Gabriel, Nike DK

DARING, CARING, STORY SHARING

Josie Frances Hadley Free Mover josie-frances-hadley@hotmail.com

This project intends to design entertaining, educational books for 3-8 year olds. Topics include environmental , health and psychological subjects like empathy, these are introduced in a way so the child becomes aware of these challenges and responsibilities. The emphasis is on the visual narrative to provoke and aid a child to tell their own story, thus engaging them in the topic and possible solutions. My responsibility was to write and design a detailed page by page synopsis and storyboard of each book.

Illustrators volunteered to make sketches of the characters in the story, I was one of the volunteers.

Bzz

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Bzz

Bzz

A DESIGN EXPEDITION

Grit Jansen Spatial Design www.cargocollective.com/gritjansen gritjansen@gmail.dk

I set sails for a design expedition to Greenland. Not to conquer, but to sense and discover.

The goal of the design expedition is to research how a group of Greenlandic people relate practically, bodily and in their mindset to nature. And to develop a research method that, through materiality, exposes physical and metaphysical ties to the landscape.

In Greenland I found an organ that I did not know of before.

An organ that ties man and landscape together in a dynamic exchange of strength. An organ as ghostly as an idea and yet as corporeal as a set of lungs.

Sisimiut, Greenland

By materialising this organ I raise the question of how the landscape in which we move produces us as human beings and how we produce our landscape.

Organ

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Samples, biopsies, logbook

Exhibition set

A CONSTRUCTION TOY

Emil Hjorth-Rohde Industrial design hello@emilhr.dk www.emilhr.dk

Puff is a construction toy that gives the children the possiblity to play creative, interactive and intuitive through the use of airpressure and connectable tubes. The toy is a ball track with different shaped tubes. By connecting a manual air pump, the balls can be send through the track and will move with the air through the track.

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There is a great fascination bound to the simple idea of seeing the ball flying through the colored tubes and controlling the speed and movement remotely.

In my idea process I have focused on the simple and fascinating idea.

A COLLECTION OF UNISEX TEXTILES FOR CHILDREN – IN LIGHT OF THE LATE-MODERN GENDER ROLE DEBATE

Liv Kongsted Berthelsen Textile Design LivB.design@gmail.com www.liv-design.dk

There has been a growing tendency in the Danish society to align children with their gender.

Children reflect their environment, and the expectations they are met with.

If children are treated differently because of their gender, it can become limiting for how they develop later in life.

As a mother of both a boy and a girl I am often confronted with this issue. For the last 10 years the development towards an extremely segregated children’s universe has been explosive.

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Through my textile collection, I would like to help children get out of these “genderboxes” and show that there are many ways of being either a boy or a girl.

IOTYN

Sille Tabita Bregnehave Windum Visual Communication silletabita@gmail.com www.sillewindum.com

In my final project from Visual Communication I’ve created an exhibition, based on the short story “Iotyn” by Peter Adolphsen.

The story revolves around the Universe and alien lifeforms.

The Iotyns are a race of extraterrestrial life who travels from their part of the Universe and arrives at Earth.

Based on a series of focus points in the story I have illustrated the Iotyns significantly different alien world and travel. I’ve done this using different 2D and 3D techniques, which has resulted in an exhibition showcasing the short story.

Planet Surface

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The illustrations in the exhibition depicts the Iotyns home planet, their travels through the Universe and their common conscience. This has resulted in a variety of illustrations, which all revolves around the Universe.

Life in the Universe

Stone from the Universe

Planet

GUDEGRY

Coming from a two-dimensional illustration background, I’ve progressively grown interested in working with the body as a means of expression during my studies at the Danish Design School. In addition, I’ve always been interested in fantastic worlds, but noticed a lack of reference to the present day. This can also be seen in ancient mythology, which is often visualized through archaic or clichéd illustrations.

Accordingly, through my graduation project I have investigated the medium of Body Based Character Design, through the exemplification and reinterpretation of the Norse Gods of the weekdays. The result is the development of seven characters who each exist within their own realm.

These characters have been visualized 3-dimensionally, incorporating the human body, masks, costumes and different settings—which I’ve documented and staged photographically.

Máni

Loki

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Sarah Jansen Visual Communication jansen.sarah@ymail.com www.behance.net/sarah-jansen

Thor

Odins raven

LUX EX TENEBRIS – LIGHT FROM DARKNESS

Attracting prey

Anne Digens Freemover adigens@gmail.com adigens.blogspot.dk

My initial inspiration comes from deep sea creatures and bioluminescence. In the darkness at the bottom of the oceans, creatures use light to communicate, some species because they need to mate, some to escape predators and some to attract prey.

I have created a light emitting, three part showpiece collection of jewellery, in epoxy end silver.

Each piece represents a way of communicating with light.

Aesthetically I wanted my collection to find the balance point between being beautiful and repulsive.

Searching for mate

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Escaping predators

MOUNT KØBENHAVN

For my graduation project I chose to create a visual concept for a title sequence. The title sequence is based on a television series, which hasn’t been produced yet, inspired by the novel Mount København by the Danish contemporary author Kaspar Colling Nielsen.

The novel is a series of short tales, which describe what happens to Copenhagen and it’s citizens, when a 3,5 km high mountain is built by the government, just outside the city. I used my visual concept to create a 50 second long animatic, which I animated in Adobe After Effects

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Anne Degn Christensen Production Design annedegnchristensen@gmail.com

THE OTHER ROOM – A LIGHTING STRATEGY FOR SKOVLUNDE CEMETERY

Fixture design created with optical fibers.

Rays of light creating a magical glade in the forest.

Light and mist creating dreamy fog in the landscape

Flexible fixtures that move in the wind creating an ever changing light pattern

The glowing meadow

The intention with the master thesis “The Other Room” has been to transform Skovlunde Cemetery into an inspiring and breathtaking universe at night time. A magical lightscape, which allows for contemplation and reflection, and where scale, contrast and movement highlight the natural cemetery.

The project is inspired by small magical moments in nature twilight rays striking through the clouds, the early morning fog and the low winter sun that makes the meadow glow.

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Sabine Møller Industriel Design sabinemoel@gmail.com

Rasmus Lund Mathisen Visual Communication Type Design & Typography rasmus@lundmathisen.dk www.lundmathisen.dk

Sign painters decorated the cityscape of Copenhagen in the first part of the 20th century, they made the walls speak to the customer with a great variation of type and colorful type images. In my graduation project I dived into picture archives, explored, analyzed and documented type in the city of Copenhagen. Based on my findings a new type family “KØBENHAVN FAMILY” grew, a family of 5 typefaces. Please go visit COPENHAGENTYPE. DK for further introduction and to explore the impressive image gallery. And the Instagram feed: @cphtype.

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WALLS OF TYPE

NEW DANISH BANKNOTES

Detail of the Banknote Serie

Detail of 100-krone Banknote

Detail of the 200-krone Banknote

Morten Steinbach Graphic Design morten@steinbach.dk www.steinbachgrafik.dk

This project is the graphic design of the new Danish banknotes. I am fascinated by the aesthetics that arise in the security printing methods, providing the banknote layers that tell multiple stories.

I have aimed to design a series of banknotes that look forward and outward. The theme is the innovative Dane today.

The initial idea was to reinvent ”Plovmanden”, which in the early 1900’s was the 500-kroner note. He was not a famous Dane, but a symbol of the working Dane. The existing series of banknotes (Bridge Series) do not display people.

I have made the motifs more present by placing people in the centre. It is not famous Danes, but Danes as we see them in their everyday life.

Detail of the 1000-krone Banknote

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Detail of the 500-krone Banknote

SUPER NORMAL

The furnitures fits together like modules.

Super Normal is a homage to the ordinary, durable, timeless, restrained, functional, and archetypical.

While products keeps getting shorter lives, come and go, is launched and disappear again these furnitures demonstrates the opposite. With their ordinary and archetypical design, solid and durable materials, and versatile functionality, I have tried to create a range of furnitures that will last forever.

Their simple, and contour-like character, hides many possible functions. In addition of being individually furnitures, they also work together, creating an endless range of possibilities.

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A collection of three versatile furnitures; a chair, a table, and a dresser

Live Berg Industriel Design live@me.com www.liveberg.com

The drawers of the dresser can be taken out completely, and act as individual storage items.

Stine Marie Krebs Textile Design stkre@edu.kadk.dk www.stinekrebs.com

Regarding the social norms that exist in council properties. The aim of the project, is to strengthen the sense of connectedness and the feeling of communal togetherness.

This is achieved by decorating the entrance hall area and the staircases of the building.

The project is based on a specific council estate in Saxogade in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, and the proposed solution is based on design anthropological methods such as probes and experience prototyping. In the entrance hall, where most people pass through, changes have been made to encourage communication and inspire the residents to add their own personal touch. Among other things, this is done by way of foldout furniture and a ’conversation board’. The flow of colours through the herringbone folded panels, create a constantly evolving experience that symbolises the life being lived in the building.

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WELCOME INSIDE

SAMBURU

The logo drawn in sand

How to change the height of the giraffes

The board game setup

The board folds and forms the box

A bead pattern inspired by the Samburu tribe

Samburu is a board game were game mechanics are inspired by paper folding and the graphic style influenced by bead work made by the Samburu tribe in Kenya. Samburu is a strategy game where players are maneuvering giraffes in the Savannah in order to collect fruits. The giraffes need to crane their necks to be able to reach the fruits from the top of the trees.

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Embla Vigfusdottir Games and Interaction Design emblav@gmail.com emblav.com

FLOATING INTERNATIONAL STUDENT VILLAGE WITH CORRESPONDING COMMON FURNITURE

Lounge chair “link”

Lounge chairs “hug each other”

Dorothee Mainka Furniture and Spatial Design dorothee.mainka@gmx.de www.dorotheemainka.com

Village

Common island

The international dormitory “Nexus” in the case of the Designschool, is investigating the concinnity in free development of the individual and common utilization, based on a balance between private and public areas. The concept focuses on the intimacy amongst students – one student, one container - as well as the common feeling shown through the centre of the village. The circle reflects common unity, wholeness and emphasises a feeling of homeliness. The common furniture “Link”, inspired by “hug each other”, stands for coherence. It is strong, and provides a sense of safety and a feeling that you make up one part of a whole.

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Student container

‘GILLES’

My thesis project took its starting point with the music for the opera ‘Gilles Requiem’ from 1999, a play based around the life and legend of notorious serial killer Gilles de Rais.

My interest in the story arose due to the idea of Evil versus Good and the evolution of ‘the dark side’ that is present in every human being.

The result is a fashion collection that seeks to tell the whole story of Gilles de Rais by marking each of his life stages and thus his evolution from a religious demure man to an inhuman monster.

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Jesper Lüders Fashion Design +45 40 36 35 18 jesper.effortlessmag@outlook.dk

Photos: Kajse Gullberg

DON´T LET APPEARANCE FOOL YOU

The Dowager

Tengo

Ushikawa Aomame

Project is based on the trilogy 1Q84

by Haruki Murakami. The costumes are composed based on selected characters from the books.

The characters are visualized in different ways, based on my personal interpretation of Haruki Murakami’s universe. The focus is on character- and atmosphere building. Each costume represents a character from 1Q84.

My working method is an intuitive approach, the process is kept experimental as far as possible, in order to provide room for the unexpected.

Magical realism and maximalism are keywords in the visual expression.

The crucial in this project is the artistic and intuitive process towards the product and expressivity in expression and references.

Fuka-Eri

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Maria Sloth Fashion Design maria_sloth@yahoo.dk