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Alchemy Scarf Collection @ The TRAMSHED

Alchemy Scarf Collection by Zuzunaga

Alchemy Scarf Collection is presented for the first time at The TramShed, during The London Design Festival.

Pick up our newspaper next week at the TramShed in Rivington Street. 5 members of Them There, including Bravo Charlie Mike Hotel, Cristian Zuzunaga, Decode London, Sam Wilkinson and VW+BS, are exhibiting during the London Design Festival and presenting new projects.

http://www.zuzunaga.com

http://www.themthere.co.uk

The TramShed, 32 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3WQ, United Kingdom

22 September, 4pm - 6pm
23 September, 11am - 8pm
24 - 25 September, 11am - 6pm
26 September, 11am - 4pm

Squaring of the Circle @ LONDON DESIGN WEEK

We are happy to invite you for the launch of Squaring of the Circle, a colourful installation designed by Cristian Zuzunaga, featuring his new textile and cushion collection for Kvadrat.

Kvadrat

10 Shepherdess Walk,
LONDON N17LB,
UK

Squaring of the Circle by Cristian Zuzunaga

20 September, 2010 (All day) - 26 September, 2010 (All day)

Opening times: Showroom is open 10 - 6pm Monday - Friday. Weekend by appointment.

Kvadrat launches their textile collection by Cristian Zuzunaga. Textiles, prints and a large-scale installation in the London showroom explore Cristian Zuzunaga's work: his fascination with the pixel and the symbiotic relationship between mankind and environment. His designs are inspired by cityscapes, to create unique and unexpected visual landscapes. Shown in London for the first time.

The three collections are augmented by Digital Tea interactive design and allow visitors to influence visual and aural aspects of the designs by interacting with the space.

Kvadrat Showroom, 10 Shepardess Walk,

London N1 7LB, United Kingdom

Squaring of the Circle by Cristian Zuzunaga

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Spirit cushion
40 x 40 cm

Soul cushion
40 x 40 cm

Fire cushion
40 x 40 cm

Cristian Zuzunaga has created a colourful cushion collection for Kvadrat, entitled Squaring of the Circle. The collection consists of three designs, named Spirit, Soul and Fire, which are all constructed from pixels – the designer’s trademark pattern.

Individuality is at the heart of the collection: each cushion will be unique thanks to the repeat of the printed fabric. In addition, Squaring of the Circle offers individual, vibrant and unique combinations of colours, which range from  bright and energetic to soft and gentle.

The colourful character of the collection reflects Cristian Zuzunaga’s mission to provoke positive emotions and sensations by introducing colour to daily life.

The cushions, which are made from Trevira CS and can be washed at 40C, also stand out for their attention to detail. For instance, colours run smoothly over the cushions’ seams, ensuring the rhythm of the pattern is not disturbed.

Like much of the designer’s work, Squaring of the Circle is inspired by architecture. ‘My patterns derive from zooming in on images I have taken of cityscapes, until the image is broken down into its infinitesimal geometric shapes. My designs are a metaphor for our cities, illustrating the way in which they can only exist as a result of endless combinations of individual characters’ says Cristian Zuzunaga.

Since discovering letterpress printing as a student – and its virtually infinite links with architecture and digital technology – the designer has exclusively worked with geometric shapes, most notably pixels. This gives his work, including this collection, a very strong visual narrative.

Cristian Zuzunaga’s versatile work bridges fashion and interiors. A firm fan of collaboration, he has worked with clients including Kvadrat, Ligne Roset, Christophe Delcourt, Tate Gallery, Nanimarquina and Hästens.

His designs are regularly published and have been exhibited in galleries and trade shows across the world.

Images can be downloaded at www.kvadrat.dk/company/press_room



Read more about Cristian Zuzunaga's Squaring of the Circle collection

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Cristian Zuzunaga and Kvadrat collaborate

By Jamie Mitchell for FX Magazine

I kicked off my tour of the London Design Festival this morning with a visit to Danish textile company Kvadrat's London showroom. The space, designed by architect David Adjaye and designer Peter Saville, is worthy of a blog entry of its own, but I went there to see some brilliant new work by Barcelona-born graphic and print designer Cristian Zuzunaga, who has created a collection of curtains for Kvadrat using bold architectural shapes. The two designs, Skyline and Cityscape, feature multiple overlapping layers, which reveal subtle shapes and unexpected colours. He has also designed a colourful cushion collection for Kvadrat called Squaring of the Circle.

Photo: Mikolai Berg

Originally a student of typography and graphic design, Zuzunaga's creative epiphany came when he discovered the tactile and imperfect qualities of letterpress printing and he was inspired to work with textiles after a trip to Shanghai to research ultra-modern architecture. Zuzunaga's recent work takes photography - usually pictures of cityscapes - as its starting point. He then renders them in pixels and uses them to create artworks and fabric patterns. 'My patterns derive from zooming in on images I have taken of cityscapes until the image is broken down into infinitesimal geometric shapes,' says the designer, who describes his work as 'a metaphor for our cities, illustrating the ways in which they can only exist as a result of endless combinations of individual characters'.

A big fan of collaboration, Zuzunaga has also teamed up with multimedia designers Digital Tea, who have used his designs to create an interactive installation at the Kvadrat showroom.

Author: Jamie Mitchell
For: FX Magazine
http://www.fxmagazine.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3526

Urban Fabric at LDF

By Gian Luca Amadei for Blueprint Magazine

Skylines encapsulate the essence and identity of cities. Especially at dusk, when the composite layering of buildings is partially reduced to bi-dimensional silhouettes against the sky. This is what Spanish designer Cristian Zuzunaga captures in his latest collection of curtain fabrics for Danish textile company Kvadrat. Zuzunaga recalls that the inspiration for his project came to him after a visit to Shanghai, while researching his MA thesis. Whilst there, he realised what an overwhelming effect the super-modern architecture had on the densely populated Chinese city and especially how facades of buildings are hidden under digital billboards, turning them into vast advertising and communication devices.

For the London Design Festival, Zuzunaga collaborated with creative studio Digital Tea, to create a site-specific interactive video installation that can be seen at Kvadrat’s East End showroom. Descending the wooden staircases, the main architectural feature in the showroom, the visitor is confronted by a video projection that despite its visual nature has a sound like quality obtained by the syncopated sequence of images. The base used for the video sequences is Cityscape a geometrical design by Zuzunaga. The visual rhythm created by the patterns and its use of colours, brings to mind the avant-garde rigor of the Bauhaus and the minimalism of Russian Suprematism. Part of the new collection also unveiled at Kvadrat is Squaring the Circle, a clever yet playful collection of cushions by Zuzunaga featuring a distinctive pixilated fabric, which it has recently become the designer’s signature.

Author: Gian Luca Amadei
For: Blueprint Magazine
http://www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk/index.php/design/urban-fabric-at-ldf