liana nigri · surface and graphic design

About

Hello,

I'm a graphic designer specialized in surface design. I have been working mainly for the fashion industry, developing textile prints.

I graduated in graphic design in Rio de Janeiro, but it was during an exchange programme experience in Italy, at the Politecnico de Milano, that textile design and its role in fashion first appealed to me. Since then, I went on studying ways to explore surface design as a powerful form of expression.

I lived in London for two years while pursuing my MA at Central Saint Martins. In mid-2009 I got my masters degree in Textile Futures and moved back to Brazil hired by La Estampa as a senior textile print designer (www.laestampa.com.br).

Lately, I’ve been using patterned surfaces to compose both small and big spaces, from living rooms to building façades. You can check out my new ventures and more at http://liananigri.tumblr.com/

My motto is: patterns should be unexpected. I hope you find your visit here to be surprising too.

Thank you!

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Work

1. MA Design for Textile Futures | Final Project | June 2009

The idea of this project is to express the Internet generation’s behaviour through fashion. Thinking textile as a surface of communication and Textile Futures as the potential to go even further with that communication. Thus I am combining in one single media the real and the virtual worlds. To achieve this goal I developed in partnership with Bruno Bergher a software containing a library of textile prints for ‘screen dresses’ (made with OLED embedded into fabric). This prints during the day will also translate visually virtual inputs, i.e., e-mails and ‘Facebook’ messages. The print collection was inspired in what people most share online, just like portraits and wedding.

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2. As Confusões do Leãozinho da Juba Grande, Réptil Editora | 2010

This project was the biggest challenge of 2010, because it was my first experience with kids book illustration. It is a story of a clumsy leon that doesn't like to stop playing, not even to cut his hair. That is where a lot of funny and unusual situations starts.

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3. Converse | 2009 at La Estampa

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4. Koni | December 2006

Koni Store was the first chain of Japanese fast food restaurants at Rio de Janeiro. The chalenge of the project was to combine two areas which are apparently impossible to mix: oriental traditions and modernity. The main course is a temaki (rice and different fillings wrapped in seaweed in a cone shape), which the preparation is pretty much like making the traditional art of origami, but at the same time it doesn't take more than 5 minutes to eat it. The visual identity was inspired by origami art and urban icons such as traffic signs and I worked with another designer, Yael Dickstein (www.yad.com.br).

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5. Farm | 2006 and 2007

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