liana nigri textile and graphic design

About

Hello,

I hope that on this website you will be able to find out a little bit more about me.

I graduated in graphic design in Brazil at The Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). During the course, I went on an exchange programme to Italy (Politecnico di Milano), where I became aware of, and very interested in fashion design.

In order to work with both these areas, I took the decision to specialize in textile design. First, I did a post-graduate course in Textile Print Design at Senai Cetiqt, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – where I was born.

And in 2007 I started an MA Design for Textile Futures at Central Saint Martins, London, where I lived until 2009. Check it out: www.textilefutures.co.uk

Now I am part of a new lovely family: www.laestampa.com.br

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Work

0.1 MA Design for Textile Futures | June 2008

My aim was to create a smart and sensible textile, creating an emotional value and communication between the user and the object. To develop emotion I tryed to bring back our pleasurable collection of memories. And I also made the luggage a collector of new memories.

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0.2 MA Design for Textile Futures | December 2007

The aim this first project was to create a virtual reality, making people share their histories, cultures, experiences and feelings with everybody on the street, through fashion. Focusing in the Facebook platform, I designed a conceptual project that consist in a system in which everyday you wake up, put your white “second skin” clothes, and enter into your virtual sketchbook. You will chose your mood, give some key words and, if you want, upload music or pictures. Then the system will give you some options of: colours, backgrounds, typographies and elements for you to design your own pattern. To develop this first collection of prints, I started thinking about my profile of Facebook. So I made one print about where I am from, another about my favourite picture, my favourite poem, the special moments of my life . . .

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1.1 Farm | Winter 2008

“The collector” is a mixing of flowers, textures, colours, passion, styles, histories, and countries. Because collecting is not just keeping similar things. It is to keep things that are similar to you. It’s to remind to ourselves (or the world) who we are.

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1.2 Farm | Summer 2007

"The factory" comes from the interdependence – which may sound contradictory - of nature and technology. The raw materials of this fantastic factory are fruits, plants and animals that, after passing through a production line, are transformed into surreal hybrid combinations, such as an apple-butterfly, frog-pineapple, sky of screws or pixelized watermelons. In this place nothing is what it seems, or everything can be what you want it to be.

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1.3 Farm | Winter 2006

Look inside and smile! That's the motto of Farm's spring 2006 collection. The inspiration came from Thai tribes, where even living such a simple life, people always seem to be smiling. We tried to make people pay attention to the simple things that make life so magic. For this collection, I worked with both the graphic and the textile design departments. With my team, I created more than a hundred tags for the clothing line, each of them with different texts about the simple and beautiful things in life. I was also in charge of the prints for most of the conceptual line of clothes in the collection.

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2 Koni | December 2006

Koni Store is the first chain of fast food restaurants in Rio de Janeiro that only serves temakis – a Japanese speciality made with rice and different fillings wrapped in seaweed in a cone shape. The chain brings together two areas which are apparently impossible to mix: oriental traditions and modernity. Preparing a temaki is like making an origami, a traditional oriental art: you have to transform a 2d matrix into a 3d object. At the same time, it doesn't take more than 5 minutes to eat it – so it's sold as fast food. The visual identity was inspired by both this traditional art and urban icons such as traffic signs and cones. In this project I worked with my Brazilian designer friend, Yael Dickstein www.yad.com.br.

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3.1 Alessa | Summer 2007

Rio de Janeiro is suffering from a crime wave, which is letting down its citizens. To improve the Carioca’s self esteem, the patterns of the “made in Alessa”collection romanticizes the city’s landmarks. Drawings in pen of chitão flowers- a classical mark of Alessa brand – reveal in an almost a naïve way places like The Statue of Christ, the Lapa Arches and Sugar Loaf Mountain, where the fashion show took place.

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3.2 Alessa | Winter 2006

The winter collection called “Love on Offer” was exhibited in a supermarket in Rio de Janeiro to stress how love is a commodity of supreme importance. Hearts were the main theme of the patterns, designed in a psychedelic way.

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4.1 Pos-Graduation | December 2006

This project was the continuation of my graduation final project, but now instead of concentrating on Brazil through its flavours, I used its races. It resulted in prints that show history in an abstract way, with all the formats coming from 3 basic forms representing the 3 main groups that have formed the ‘Brazilian’ race (Indians, Portuguese and Africans), passing through metamorphoses and becoming something completely new. The patterns represented beauty, joy, miscegenation, aggregation (and not segregation), tolerance and mood. With the following visual components: mixture (and not unit), multiple-colours, anti-symmetry, bold forms and a variety of pictures.

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4.2 Graduation | December 2005

Publishing a good image of Brazil through it’s flavours and gastronomic habits was the intention of the “made in BraSil” project. I applied this concept to an intelligent collection that shows, through patterns and other graphic support, some of the history of Brazil behind traditional dishes. The bags help to tell about this huge country, showing a little bit of the Brazilian culture and making people’s mouth water!

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5. ETC...

This is an overview of freelance jobs that I have been working with companies like Fábula, Thelu and Cupido.

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0 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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