2020
VIA Design and Media College Denmark are proud to present the 2020 edition of DANISH DESIGN MEETS PHOTOGRAPHY. Bringing photographers and designers together on a project like this reflect the reality they face after graduating from our schools: Bringing new ways of thinking to life. Working hard and believing in yourself as an individual, creative craftsman. VIA Design’s design products are the result of the creative project course in which sixth semester students work to bring forward their individual expression of design within the concepts of “Fashion Design” and ”Furniture Design” - from inspiration to idea process to the production of a functional prototype. The photographers have worked closely with the design students to produce the gallery-quality images, we are proud to present in this booklet. Being halfway through their education, they focus on visual communication and project management, and in the designers they found a mutual, creative individual: One who had the visual vocabulary to inspire them into creating images of high quality.
Designer: Peter Serup Jensen Photographer: Michael Johansen As a designer I strive to make furniture with a real existence justification. Where the construction becomes the decoration. Thorax is a new take on the traditional hanger used to present clothing at exhibitions and in shops. It differs from the standard by adding more volume and giving an experience of the human body. Thorax is made to create the maximum amount of volume for a minimum amount of material. Peter Serup Jensen
Designer: Bibi W. Anuchat Photographer: Christian M. Andersen I want to use my platform as a fashion designer to send a message. My choice of inspiration is often critical, and the critical message is expressed in a rebellious and playful way. For this collection, I was inspired on behalf of the wildlife. I wanted to send a message to remind people to remember other living beings. A message to tell people to try and live in balance to keep our planet healthy. For this collection, I combined the aesthetics of endangered wildlife and their situation with womenswear.
Bibi W. Anuchat
Designer: Peter Serup Jensen Photographer: Josephine Goldmann As a designer I strive to make furniture with a real existence justification. Where the construction becomes the decoration. Rail is an expression of the ability of light to be more than just a source of illumination. The light passes through small crevices on the back to form a pattern of light on the wall. The intention is to make a lamp capable of giving a sense of life to the room by allowing the eye to be captured. Peter Serup Jensen
Designers: Kira Usbeck and Camilla Pallesen Photographer: Mikkel Hansen Acorn is designed to be an aesthetic, functional, innovative and sustainable solution for storage of laundry. The product is designed with focus on minimal use of materials. Acorn also focuses on how to make the everyday life more manageable, especially for people with limited space. The materials used in the design is cork as textile for the laundry bags, oak wood for the shelf and a bended steel pipe to hold the construction. Kira and Camilla
Designer: Elina Paula Lauze Photographer: Helle Kuhr Larsen Simple cuts, oversized and classical shapes, sleeves, straps, layering, transformable clothing and attachable pieces are a strong part of my design DNA. Highlighted parts of my designs are mostly details and my love for accessories and small hardware metals. This collection is inspired by changes in nature and how clothing pieces can be transformable and change together with the human body. Transforming clothing pieces are giving more variations to the user - and thereby fulfilling daily needs.
Elina Paula Lauze
Designer: Mikkel Dons Photographer: Mie Laurenberg This dress is made as a part of my fourth semester exam. My main theme throughout the project was to describe randomness and coincidence. Although, no matter how hard I tried to design coincidences, I always had a specific design or result in mind. So I ended up contacting a local daycare, and got their 1-2 year olds to draw me doodles that I could use in the matter of prints on the garments, to represent the randomness and coincidence which is the result on the dress.
Mikkel Dons
Designer: Birgit Winters Photographer: Enneke Hempen This art piece was inspired by the handcrafted feeling of the hippie era and the leader of North Korea, Kim Yong Un. Even though these two are totally opposite to each other, they make a really interesting combination. As a designer, I am often inspired by art and love to combine that with beauty and humor. My goal in my work is to make the consumer feel confident, rebellious and powerful: To be who they are so they can dress however they like. Birgit Winters
Designer: Astrid Nyborg Photographer: Helene Sjørslev Barogue is a showpiece clashing vulgar extravagance with feminine purity. The grand voluminous silhouette is inspired by the Baroque style period. To challenge this period, the contrasting white color resembles a humble and pure innocence. As a designer I love to challenge the viewer with expression, form and materials. In this design I have used a heavy faux leather with light lace in an upscaled fabric manipulation. I love to give my designs a voice of their own by incorporating strong material choices.
Astrid Nyborg
Designer: Olivie Nissen Photographer: Malene Nelting My collection is inspired by body positivity, which is a social movement. The aim of the movement and my collection is for all people to have a positive body image and avoid unrealistic beauty ideals. Body positivity is a necessity in the modern society with mental disorders becoming increasingly common. The collection stages what is perceived as beauty flaws such as spider veins, stretch marks, wrinkles and shapes, in a feminine and elegant way. Beauty flaws are what make us unique and different.
Olivie Nissen
Designer: Anne Mette Rasmussen Photographer: Tue Ahlgren My designs are defined by print and colour clashing. I work with mixing different fabric qualities to create a new graphic and tactile expression. With a background of more than ten years in New York City’s fashion industry, mainly working with fit and production, going back to university in Denmark has given me the opportunity to nurture the artistic conceptual side of fashion. Meeting my photographer Tue we found that we have a mutual interest in the intersection between the intuitive and the constructed.
Anne Mette Rasmussen
Designer: Anne Sofie Hein Photographer: Oksana Ivakhiv The theme of the collection La Femme Facile is the provocative nature of the female sexuality mixed with the early 60s housewife aesthetics. The name of the collection is a reference to the French movie “Je ne suis pas un homme facile”, in which a man wakes up in an alternative universe with reversed gender roles and sexual norms. The collection was created for the South European market to further the feminist movement and for women to reclaim their sexuality with style!
Anne Sofie Hein
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Designer: Monika Garpuškinaite Photographer: Ashley Orianna Bruun The theme of my design is post-war. I was inspired by ruined buildings, smoke, gas masks and the facts of life in that period of time - where people would scavenge for whatever was left. In my creative process, I like to work with shapes and fabric manipulations. In this design, to develop sustainable use of material, I chose to work with broken bike inner tubes to replace the rubber from the gas masks which I cut and knitted by hand. Monika Garpuškinaitė
Designer: Blanka Papp Photographer: Nivetha Pulendran My design aesthetic is graphical, vibrant and modern. I like to mix sporty and sophisticated silhouettes with a balance between them. I was inspired by technological inventions used in the fashion industry where I brought the human senses into parallel with technology. In this changing world, we sometimes forget about the ”real life” and we spend too much time in virtuality. The tactile feeling of the fabrics, vibrant colours and graphics express the sensuality of humans and reflect the futuristic appearance.
Blanka Papp
Designer: Louise Kristiansen Photographer: Mads Nordvig In a world of people with different cultural backgrounds and personalities, a search for a way to imitate one another occurs. As we perceive things differently, a distorted version of reality emerges and allows us to see the world that surrounds us in a different way. Inspired by the obscure, the collection Distorted Reality, captures an expression of individuality and our perception of how things transform. The design universe focuses on distortions, making you wonder: Who are you and who do you want to be?
Louise Kristiansen
Designer: Peter Serup Jensen Photographer: Rune Ekelund As a designer I strive to make furniture with a real existence justification. Where the construction becomes the decoration. Kiila has no need for ether glue nor screws. It is assembled only by the shape of the construction where the shelfs slide down over the legs and finds its natural place. This allows Kiila to be assembled and disassembled repeatedly without any concerns. This philosophy is inspired by the feudal Japan, where the craftsmanship is praised for its sense of detail.
Peter Serup Jensen
Designer: Julie Herling Photographer: Willam Høyer In my creative processes I find inspiration in different aspects of life. I like working with a very graphic expression. Stress is a big problem in our modern society. We have forgotten to stop and look back. Back to the starting point. Back to a calm, creative life grounded in nature. The creative state comes from boredom. The aim of my design in this collection is to slow down time in order to create valuable moments and lasting memories. Julie Herling
Designer: Trine Nielsen Photographer: Lea Tamera A. Puurtinen What is the saddest word? Almost. Why? She almost kissed him. He almost loved her. They almost made it. My collection Almost is about lost love. It is about a relationship that almost worked out but did not and the feelings of the heartbreak. The grief, the sadness, the anger and the tears and the conflict between wanting the person back because he or she made you so happy and wishing you never met the person because he or she has hurt you so much.
Trine Nielsen
Designer: Clara Aranda Photographer: Pernille Stockmal I like to work with different types of silhouettes and forms. For this collection, I was inspired by the countryside, nature textures and by some of the organic shapes that nature created to build a landscape. The organic shapes led me to a creation of different types of drapes that will adapt differently to each type of body. My design aesthetics are feminine and delicate, focusing on details and a soft colour palette. Through this collection I want to embrace the feminine essence of confidence, power and diversity.
Clara Aranda
Designer: Mikkel Dons Photographer: Christoffer Åberg This outfit was made for a music performer in mind. A uniform for an artist. Some kind of suit that represents the person wearing it, but also gives a new dimension, or a top layer of confidence to the individual who is wearing it. The outfit should be visible from a long distance, but also flexible so the wearer could move around in it. It also needed to be easy to put on and take off, as a music performer you need to make costume changes really quickly. Mikkel Dons
Designer: Irina Marinova Photographer: Maja Victoria Langva Retrospect is a collection based on sustainability that gives a contemporary look of the details from the Danish folklore. The idea of Retrospect is to bring a piece from the past to the present by using techniques such as hand drawing, dying and embroidery. Ordinary trims and details have been replaced by natural materials as buttons are made of palm seeds or orange peel elements. The collection aims to renew the traditions of using organic materials and to reduce the environmental impact.
Irina Marinova
Designer: Sasha Aarestrup Pedersen Photographer: Jeanne Lehmann One night in the city when you look up at the sky, the world will take your mind to a far away galaxy surrounded by celestial objects, a colorful breeze of wind and imaginary figures that awake your childhood memories. The collection CITY OF STARS is inspired by the borderland between wakefulness and rest with dreamlike visions and strange sensory occurrences. The universe allows you to dream big and dig deep to create what you wish for. But are you caught in a childhood dream or an awful nightmare?
Sasha Aarestrup Pedersen
Designer: Nana-Adwoa Osei Photographer: Bente Foged Madsen For my collection BETWEEN I was inspired by my own culture; an African woman who has moved to Denmark and has to learn about the Danish culture. It is about an African woman who has to learn about the Danish design, colors and prints. In my collection, I mix Danish and African culture while still staying true to the African background. I found inspiration in powerful African colors and prints mixed with more simple, Danish prints. I want to find a fine balance between the African and Danish styles.
Nana-Adwoa Osei
Designer: Romana Jaselska Photographer: Caroline Vollen ROSES is a streetwear collection with a sporty accent, feminine touch, dreamy vibes and sarcastic message hidden behind it. Ballet inspired me to combine soft materials with sporty ones. Roses were my inspiration for fabric manipulations, prints and colours. The last part of my inspiration was the old fashioned romance from the perspective of 21st century women looking at romantic gestures missing nowadays. I wanted to underline the difference between old times and present and use it in a sarcastic way.
Romana Jaselska
Designer: Jakob Damgaard Andersen Photographer: Karin Rosa Fallah As a designer, I like to challenge the user to stand out of the crowd: This collection was no difference. For this mini-collection, I was inspired by the Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth and his ability to make his artwork stand out and be “in-your-face”. Every piece was a tribute to his different artworks. The knitted roll-neck has a clear reference to his F*CK the Poor from 2010. The colorful hand-stiched threads on the chest symbolise the wet brush strokes and are hanging loose to make the piece alive.
Jakob Damgaard Andersen
Josephine Goldmann +45 61375830 josephinelgoldmann@gmail.com
Michael Johansen +45 28964165 michaeltcj@gmail.com
Christian M. Andersen +45 29922600 christan.cta.dk@gmail.com cmaconcept.com
Helle Kuhr Larsen +45 30266015 helle.kuhr@gmail.com instagram: HelleKuhrPhotography
Mie Laurenberg +45 30294890 laurenberg@live.dk laurenberg.dk
Enneke Hempen +45 22833840 enne.hempen@outlook.com
Helene Sjørslev +45 22114471 helene.sjoerslevv@gmail.com helenesjoerslev.com
Malene Nelting +45 22404536 malenenelting@gmail.com instagram: malenenelting
Tue Ahlgren +45 20895704 tue-uet@hotmail.com
Oksana Ivakhiv +45 41522513 ivao85@mail.com
Ashley Orianna Bruun ashleyosab@gmail.com instagram: aosab_photography
Nivetha Pulendran +45 60241494 dknivetha@hotmail.com
Mads Nordvig +45 53542498 madsnobo@hotmail.com nordvigphotography.com
Rune Ekelund +45 27121962 rune@skovdalnordic.com
Willam Høyer +45 61720570 krappeland@gmail.com
Lea Tamera A. Puurtinen +47 92053946 leatamera@hotmail.com instagram: leatamera
Pernille Stockmal +45 28452751 pernille@stockmal.dk
Christoffer Åberg +45 20146529 chri-stof-fer@hotmail.com christofferaaberg.dk
Maja Victoria Langva +47 47356680 maja.langva@hotmail.com Instagram: majavictoria_photo
Jeanne Lehmann +45 30265649 jeanne@98243646.dk jeannelehmann.com
Bente Foged Madsen +45 22852372 foto@bentefogedmadsen.dk bentefogedmadsen.dk
Caroline Vollen +47 48299119 luttavollen@gmail.com
Karin Rosa Fallah +45 53578670 instagram: fallah_visuals
Mikkel Hansen +45 28774377 mikkel@skovdalnordic.com
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