Shapes of Light Ka Hana Nui: Kāʻei ʻAʻahu Hoʻonani na Xiaoxi Zhang

ʻO Shapes of Light Ka Hana Nui: Kāʻei ʻAʻahu Hoʻonani na Xiaoxi Zhang he mea lanakila hanohano loa o ka 2022 A' Design Award Hao ma ka Māhele Hoʻokūkū Hoʻolālā Lako Lole a me Lako Huakaʻi.

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Shapes of Light Ka Hana Nui: Kāʻei ʻAʻahu Hoʻonani

na Xiaoxi Zhang

Mea Kūʻai: Johnstons of Elgin

Mea Lanakila A' Design Award Hao ma ka Māhele Lako Lole

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E Pili Ana iā Shapes of Light Ka Hana Nui: Kāʻei ʻAʻahu Hoʻonani

Kikokikona Puke: ʻO Shapes of Light kahi pūʻulu o nā kāʻei kashmere ulana. Loaʻa i kēia pūʻulu ʻekolu kumu hoʻolālā i hoʻoulu ʻia e nā ʻano kūlohelohe a me ke kūlanakauhale: ka puka ʻana o ka lā ma ke kai, nā kukui hale kūlanakauhale i ka pō, a me ka mālamalama palupalu o ka mahina i ke ahiahi. Ua hoʻololi ʻia nā manaʻo kiʻi i mau kumu ulana geometric a maʻalahi e kūpono ai i nā koina o ka ulana ʻana. Hoʻoluʻu ʻia a ulana ʻia kēlā me kēia kāʻei ma kahi wahi hana wūlū ma Kokolani, a hoʻokiʻekiʻe ʻia ka ʻili me nā ʻōpuʻu teasel kuʻuna i hana lima ʻia no kahi hopena palupalu. ʻO ka pahuhopu, ʻo ia ka hoʻololi ʻana i kahi mea hoʻolako o kēlā me kēia lā i mea kiʻi nani e hiki ke ʻaʻahu ʻia.

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Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Shapes of Light Ka Hana Nui: Kāʻei ʻAʻahu Hoʻonani i ka A' Design Award Hao, he ʻike hoʻohanohano i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā maikaʻi e hoʻokō ana i nā koi ʻoihana a ʻoihana hana i manaʻo ʻia mai nā mea hoʻokumu i hana maikaʻi ʻia. Hōʻike nā lanakila Hao i ka mākau nui, ka loea kiʻekiʻe, ka ʻike akamai a me ka hiki hana noʻeau o ka poʻe i hana iā lākou. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Shapes of Light Ka Hana Nui: Kāʻei ʻAʻahu Hoʻonani he mea hoʻokumu i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia e pono a hou. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Hao e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka ʻoihana a loaʻa nā ʻano ʻenehana mākaukau i hui pū ʻia me ka ʻike hana a me ka makakoho. Mahalo ʻia ka hoʻolālā Shapes of Light Ka Hana Nui: Kāʻei ʻAʻahu Hoʻonani no kona nānā pono a ua hoʻolālā ʻia e hāʻawi i nā hoʻomaikaʻi ola e kōkua ai i ka hana ʻana i ka honua i wahi maikaʻi aku.

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Nā ʻAno Kūʻokoʻa: "Shapes of Light" is Nancy Zhang's special collaboration design series with the Scottish cashmere expert brand Johnstons of Elgins.

For the first time, Nancy expressed her illustration arts with textile technology. The theme of this collaboration "The shape of light" is an extension of her personal illustration project "Light seeker". She made 3 designs to express diverse forms of light: The sunrise on the sea, building lights in the city at night and the soft moonlight in the evening. Light shapes how the environment looks to us, yet the environment we constructed reshapes light in turn at the same time. Does light shape our appearance, or do we construct what light looks like?

It is not only a fashion design collaboration, but also an artistic endeavour.
Nā Ana a me ka Hoʻopili: Sunrise and Moonlight: Length 190mm x Width 35mm
Building light: Length 180mm x Width 25cm
Nā Lepili: Light, textile, geometric, cashmere, woven, gradient, artistic, scarf, abstract
ʻEnehana Hana: Woven cashmere scarf series. The whole transforming process was like purification of the visual expressions. From dyeing to blending, carding to spinning, warping to weaving, knitting to teaselling and cutting to folding-it all happens in Johnstons of Elgins.

2 Ombres(Sunrise and Moonlight)：
Manufactured in Johsntons of Elgin, the craft design department and dye house worked together to create a unique blend of colours for the Ombre Oversized Classic Scarves. With the advanced jacquard machine, we can weave over 10 colours in one scarf and each colour is dyed in Elgin mill. From fiber to final products, on average of 33 craftspeople contribute to the making of each of our cashmere scarves. The signature ripple finish is achieved by using traditional hand-worked teasels to gently raise the surface or 'nap' of the completed accessory, achieving a beautifully soft handle.

Building light：
Manufactured in Johsntons of Elgin, the craft design department and dye house worked together to create a unique blend of colours for the Ombre Oversized Classic Scarves. On average of 33 craftspeople contribute to the making of each of our cashmere scarves. The mill uses use dobby loom to weave this particular cashmere scarf, and each colour is dyed in Elgin mill. The signature ripple finish is achieved by using traditional hand-worked teasels to gently raise the surface or 'nap' of the completed accessory, achieving a beautifully soft handle.
Pilikia Hoʻolālā: As an illustrator and visual artist, the biggest challenge of this textile design collaboration was transforming the illustrations into woven textile patterns without losing the original conceptual expressions.

Considering the limitations of woven technology, we had to minimize the genomic shapes for the designs as much as possible. However, it turned out to be quite an enjoyable and meaningful challenge for us both. The whole transforming process was like purification of my visual expressions, which is the charm of the textile design.
Noiʻi: In my opinion, this design series is not just a commercial collaboration but my attempt to seek a new form of project creation, transforming my personal project into a tangible painting. As the oldest form of humanistic art, textiles have always been very mature in the transformation of technology and contents. Product design is a way for us to touch and use literary and artistic creations in modern society. I call this collaboration series "The Shape of Light” as an extension of the theme of my personal painting project "Light Seekers". And all my research from my personal experiences in nature went into this: during traveling the seaside in the Izu Peninsula, a building lights view in Shanghai and the clear summer moonlight in Berlin. These physic phenomenon were turned into graphical ideas in my mind while I was looking at them. In other words, I would have painted them anyway with or without this design collaboration. It was a pleasure to work with the Johnstons of Elgin team, JOE is a cashmere textile expert in the industry. During the cooperation, I was able to entrust the technical realisation and manufacturing part to professionals. That was the ideal teamwork experience.
Hoʻoulu Manaʻo: Design 1 Sunrise-The inspiration of this one comes from the natural phenomenon- the sunrise on the sea, visualised the graphics with stripes and gradient colours.

Design 2 Building Light-The inspiration comes from the city night view-warm building lights from people's perspective outside, design with plaid graphic.

Design 3 Moonlight- The inspiration was also from he natural phenomenon-soft moonlight in summer evening without clouds,
design with gradient colours.
Ka Lōʻihi o ka Papahana: This project designs started in February 2021 in Berlin, Germany and the products finished in September 2021 in Elgin, Scotland. Currently the goods are available in Shanghai, China.
Kaʻina Hana: Scarves are one of the most common accessories to keep us warm during the winter type. Yet these kinds of daily, simple accessories could be "tangible", "wearable" art pieces as well. Based on "Movable Gallery on body" this key idea, the abstract drawings about different shapes of light were created, however, afterwards the graphics were slightly modified regarding to the woven technology requirements.Actually the final result turned out more minimal than before and it also gave people more space for imagining.Special thanks to the reliable collaboration team, it took more than 30 manufacturing steps and 33 craftspeople's involved in total to achieve the final results and everything went smoothly.
Nā Palapala Kuleana: Johnstons of Elgin (2021) Jenny Urquhart
Nā Lālā Hui: Concept Artist/Creative Director:Xiaoxi Zhang
Craft Designer: Laura Garner
Craft Designer: Aisling Watt
Nā Kuleana Kiʻi: Design&Illustration by Xiaoxi (Nancy) Zhang
Photography by Teasels(Shanghai) Trading Company Limited