Winners and Jury
The FAB ATELIER Design Contest is over. Here a personal note from FAB ATELIER's founder: "Thank you all for the very inspiring products. The submissions were amazing!
We would love to produce all products, but unfortunately we don´t have the funds to do so."
These are the winning ideas that have been selected:
"This is a serie of jewelry that I call Bend. They have a simple design but the way they are worn is unique."
"I love birds very much. I have a lot of work in the form of birds. So I was inspired by them and this time too,and created them as a jewelry."
"During making these jewels I was inspired with natural forms, colors. I was inspired with music and rhythms, with some actions of people and events. My inspiration is reflected in my jewelry.I don’t copy shapes from reality. I don’t use 3D modeling because it gives you the ready shapes. My mind and hands create shapes and colors and then I try to make them alive."
"I got my inspiration from Bauhaus. I played around with rectangles one of the basic forms, cut it out and formed it. I love minimalism, straight lines, and structure."
"The design translate the natural simplicity and power. The fragmented honeycomb gives the notion of a natural piece. Beyond that, the external shape is similar to a heart, that gives an extra symbolism to the piece."
"The iris ring is inspired by the paint "Irises" of Vincent Van Gogh.Like an impressionism artist, I try to capture the texture and the movement of my impression on the plants. Construct with the stroke of metal."
"This necklace design has inspired in the peacock tail and his fan shape. The necklace has a classic image, elegant and distinctive. Its compound by multiple brass plates connected in a central ring. The plates are not welded, that allow moving in ring creating a dynamic effect."
"PHYSIS means nature in the greek language. As I love exotic leaves, I was inspired by them."
"This idea shows a set of the "hollow top & half stone". It includes a ring, necklace and earrings. I chose to stay simple and minimalist relating to the Design. I thought it would be very interesting not to fill the hollow of the top completely with the stone, but to put it in half. There could be different colors and stones available."
"Organic forms as a jewellery material have its own visual and symbolic strength. They go back to the roots of jewelry, to ritual magic and ancient myths. They make pieces of jewelry which encompass the world from which it grows, sharing an intimate statement with the wearer. By extrapolating them from their surroundings, putting them into a new context, I am looking for their new meanings, their new life as symbols. I used traditional handicraft and classic silversmithery techniques only as a tool to highlight the fragility, simplicity, the suspended poetry of the found objects."
These are the winning ideas that have been selected:
"This is a serie of jewelry that I call Bend. They have a simple design but the way they are worn is unique."
"I love birds very much. I have a lot of work in the form of birds. So I was inspired by them and this time too,and created them as a jewelry."
“Blue Light Pendant & Earrings”
"I got my inspiration from Bauhaus. I played around with rectangles one of the basic forms, cut it out and formed it. I love minimalism, straight lines, and structure."
"The design translate the natural simplicity and power. The fragmented honeycomb gives the notion of a natural piece. Beyond that, the external shape is similar to a heart, that gives an extra symbolism to the piece."
"The iris ring is inspired by the paint "Irises" of Vincent Van Gogh.Like an impressionism artist, I try to capture the texture and the movement of my impression on the plants. Construct with the stroke of metal."
"This necklace design has inspired in the peacock tail and his fan shape. The necklace has a classic image, elegant and distinctive. Its compound by multiple brass plates connected in a central ring. The plates are not welded, that allow moving in ring creating a dynamic effect."
"PHYSIS means nature in the greek language. As I love exotic leaves, I was inspired by them."
"This idea shows a set of the "hollow top & half stone". It includes a ring, necklace and earrings. I chose to stay simple and minimalist relating to the Design. I thought it would be very interesting not to fill the hollow of the top completely with the stone, but to put it in half. There could be different colors and stones available."
"Organic forms as a jewellery material have its own visual and symbolic strength. They go back to the roots of jewelry, to ritual magic and ancient myths. They make pieces of jewelry which encompass the world from which it grows, sharing an intimate statement with the wearer. By extrapolating them from their surroundings, putting them into a new context, I am looking for their new meanings, their new life as symbols. I used traditional handicraft and classic silversmithery techniques only as a tool to highlight the fragility, simplicity, the suspended poetry of the found objects."
JURY
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Gertraud Auinger-Oberzaucher
Gertraud Auinger-Obertaucher is founder and managing director of the boutique communications agency themata|kommunikation. She consults brands in the field of lifestyle, design & luxury (Vitra, Sacher, Silhouette, Vöslauer, Bristol, Landrover, Romy, Fête Impériale, Austria’s next Topmodel etc.) |
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Thomas Feichtner
Thomas is an internationally established designer based in Vienna. His work in the area of furniture and object design is positioned midway between industry and handicrafts, mass production and one-of-a-kinds. From 2009 to 2014 Thomas was a professor for product design at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, Germany and in 2011 he was awarded by the Austrian State Award for Design. He lives and works in Vienna with his wife Simone. http://www.thomasfeichtner.com/ |
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Christian Hafner
Christian is the founder and managing director of FAB ATELIER. Before founding FAB ATELIER with three colleagues, he was director of marketing and communications at Silhouette and Swarovski. http://fab-atelier.com/ |