W A R P A I N T macro trend: 2025
As a born digital society within a filtered reality, personal privacy and security cease to exist. Our anonymity is embedded within algorithmic and biometric systems. We live within noncooperative environments of regulated high surveillance. WARPAINT highlights our collective awareness of invasive living and the constant theft of freedom. Self vandalised aesthetics camouflage identity, bringing invisibility in response to our advancing digital world. Body adornments create deceptive portraits that become unrecognised by the machine. Contrasts of overly minimal and oversized tactile silhouettes further obscure profiles, with sensory pile and highly finished fabrics giving continuous glitched movement within daily life. Colour and fabric palettes consider continuous muted tones, giving transparency in built up industrial environments. Highlights of patterned tactility reference aerial geographical markings in response to our constantly recorded world. The personal physical is re-designed and dedigitalised.
concrete white breeze block grey pavement grey uniform blue aerial marble steel blue aerial iris
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