AYA KAWABATA

SALONE DEL MOBILE in MILAN DESIGN WEEK, D'DAYS at PARIS

Visual direction and illustration for Dutch Inverturals Exhibition "Body Languadge" at Salone del Mobile in Milan during Design week and Paris D'Days April and June 2015. Those images are now in the collection of Dutch Invertuals. 

BODY LANGUAGE

Within the context of the future way of life the designers explore the esthetics and complexities of an increasingly virtual world. Technology is becoming invisible. The intactile world is gaining ground in the understanding of who we are. While physical objects lose function, forms are freed, orphaned and adopted. What is left are merely bodies reflecting our identities.

All this requires a renegotiation of the space around us and it’s effects on being human. Generations to come will refer to the past as primitive.

This exhibition is an exploration that reflects, moves, shines and glows. Crafting materials with character rather than function. Flirting with new esthetics and usabilities. At the same time they cultivate the presence of a new kind of language: BODY LANGUAGE.

DUTCH INVERTURALS

is a group of designers who are expanding the limits in their profession. Designers with different backgrounds, but with one thing in common: experiment is principal. After five successive years of presenting their work at the Salone del Mobile, the design-collective is becoming an esteemed regular, turning their exhibition at O’ into a well-known hotspot.

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