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The pixel as an icon of our age

By Nancy Jehmlich for Stylepark

Cristian Zuzunaga

Young, dynamic, cosmopolitan. Born in Spain and based in London, Cristian Zuzunaga has in the course of his life already concerned himself with a whole gamut of disciplines, from biology via typography to fashion. For some time now he has drawn inspiration for his textile prints from urban elements. For his "Squaring of the circle" collection he zoomed into photos of cityscapes - getting up so close that they dissolved into a pixel structure of tiny geometric shapes. He has now launched a new set of designs for Kvadrat, in which he addresses issues relating to space and time, urbanity and globalization. Nancy Jehmlich met Cristian Zuzunaga and spoke with him about the rain in London, fortunate coincidences, and the passion of working with pixels.

The pixel party

By Barbara Chandler for London Evening Standard

Pixellated is a dirty word in photography — those ugly blurry little squares you get on enlarged low-res images taken, say, on a cheap phone, or downloaded from the internet. You see them in newspapers — or even on TV — in “citizen reports” from mobiles. Of course all digital images are pixellated — it's just the size of the squares, minute in high-res images, that's so crucial.

Chair by French company Ligne Roset, £2,126

But London designers are redeeming pixels to use as the square root of cool design. Shoreditch artist Cristian Zuzunaga, originally from Spain, sees pixels as “truly modern abstraction”. His pixel patterns are a mass assembly of squares in literally thousands of colours — printed digitally, of course. Pixels can perk up a chair as a cushion cover, or frame a face in the shape of a silk scarf. These designs have a phenomenally long pattern repeat — up to eight metres — so no two items are exactly alike.

French manufacturer Ligne Roset has put the full Monty on one of its chairs, and WovenGround on the King's Road has a pixellated rug also designed by Zuzunaga for the Spanish company Nani Marquina.

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