“Test Print” consists of five self-taught screen-printing friends, which carries out mandates for the art and design worlds as well as self-initiated projects. The mix between comissions & made-up visuals blurs the boundaries between these fields, changing the status of the so-called test prints (the tests on prototype fabrics before the final prints), bringing them to the forefront and happily adding extra layers to them in order to achieve charged compositions bordering on abstraction.
Feel Fashion
Who tells us what fashion is? Who decides when you are fashionable? Isn’t it more about feeling and radiating fashion? Isn’t it more about the attitude than the clothes themselves?
It’s certainly fun to let off steam in the fashion world and create looks that have a common thread. But isn’t it more about feeling good in your own fashion? Feeling good inside and showing what you want to show. Fashion can get under your skin, merge with you and embody you. You decide how you feel in fashion.
Temporary Hardware
Temporary Hardware is a series of 3D printed, typographic fashion accessories. Overall shapes and functional parts are based solely on typographic elements. The chokers shown here are the first in-progress test for the series, which is intended to include rings, bracelets, necklaces, and other accessories.
Fonts used: AUTHENTIC SANS by AUTHENTIC, Basteleur by Keussel via Velvetyne Type Foundry, Isenheim by Benoît Ferran via Tunera Type Foundry.
Musa del Asfalto – Colección Bondi
Musa del Asfalto is a brand of typographic scarves. Our second collection is called «BONDI», the slang used in Argentina for buses. Our scarves honor one of the most cherished public transport systems by «porteños». The overall surface design and typography is inspired by their colourfulness’s and graphic traditions, that go back to 1928. In our scarves collections we depict different ways of touring the letters and history of our beloved city, being travelling by BONDI a beloved one.
Musa del Asfalto – Colección Letra Capital & Madre Patria
Musa del Asfalto is a brand of typographic scarves. This project derives from a sister one called «Letra Capital»: our typewalk tours in Buenos Aires. The overall designs are inspired by our discoveries while researching and conducting tours. The lush landscape and letters of Buenos Aires became our muse. A kerchief is not only a fashion accessory, but also a vessel for deeper meaning. We think of our relationship to the city as a correspondence; and these scarves are a love letters for her.
Layers-Typework 1-4
Layers makes garments and textiles that reflect a lifestyle of culture and style.
Through an interpretation of Eastern typography and visual language, Layers crafts unique, civilized designs for inspired people.
Layers-Typework 5-8
Layers makes garments and textiles that reflect a lifestyle of culture and style.
Through an interpretation of Eastern typography and visual language, Layers crafts unique, civilized designs for inspired people.
Roar In Paradise
A fashion project has been created focusing on extinct animal species from the past year. This hoodie, for example, serves as a memento to the Guam Flying Fox. Red crosses symbolize the Red List of endangered animal species, while irony and black humor emphasize conservation urgency, like the phrase “Available after 2024.” “RIP” now signifies animals continuing to roar in heaven – or paradise. Although fictional, this project could raise awareness and support conservation if realized.
55555 on silk
55555 is not a typeface, but a structuring machine!
This open modular system uses the unicode classification order to turn a simple font file into a controlling tool for all visual applications.
based on a simple 5×5 grid, providing more than 400 glyphs for latin and cyrillic script + numerous graphical elements, wildly combinable in an almost infinite manner.
Layered on silk; digital repetition and haptic sensation; first in a series of wearable pieces.
user manual
This tag embodies the interplay between destruction and construction, presenting a fresh concept for those in need of inspiration. Conceptually, the work appropriates elements with a strong recognizable aspect and translates them into a new context. By using a familiar guiding system as a tool for communication, this manual gains a strongly accessible character, motivating a straightforward approach to creativity. The headpiece works as an example for translating this idea into reality.
fast fashion kills
This project questions the traditional narrative that places blame on consumers for the harmful impacts of fast fashion, rather than holding accountable the corporations and regulatory agencies responsible. The fashion industry has become synonymous with overconsumption and waste, yet the burden of responsibility is too often placed on the individual consumer rather than the companies producing these harmful products.
asimilar
The clothing statement of the asimilar collection works as a metaphor of accumulated conformity, influencing the people’s judgment. Their opinion is subliminally controlled and changed to someone else’s gain. The inspiration taken from the movie They Live (1988, John Carpenter) illustrates the chosen concept and at the same time leads the clothing development process. The collection consists of 18 different silhouettes and works with selection of denim pieces.
Nexa
Nexa is a hypothetical fashion journal documenting stories of designers, from inspiration to process. It focuses on the spirit of collaboration in the fashion industry. This special issue investigates the creative genius of Dutch designer–Iris van Herpen, along with a peek into the visual system for Nexa through other covers. The typographic treatment is inspired from the off-key and futuristic nature of Herpen’s designs. It is typeset in Rapidissima (Typotheque) and Canela (Commercial Type).
REUSE
Old, broken jeans were repurposed by the designer for this submission. This resulted in a completely new outfit and accessories for the model to wear, as well as a complete alphabet made only from the remaining fabric.
Identity
In this ongoing textile-based project, Aiste explores identity and the weight of it that we all carry in the symbolic form of clothing labels. Every label in the ever-growing collection has been carefully removed and graciously donated by people in her community, symbolising the intimate connection between our understanding of self, our changing surroundings and the garments we wear.
4339g
The object “4339g” consists of Catholic hymn books and Bible leather covers from 1839 to 1970, some of which have been restored and then reassembled. Some of the books survived world wars and were companions of grief, pain, happiness, gratitude and hope. The patina of each individual book tells of this. The question of emotional value and the weight of our burden towards artifacts.
A big move towards fashion
A big move towards fashion.
fast fashion facts
Information and facts related to fast fashion, ironically captured on a very common fast fashion item: the T-shirt. Using a laser cutter, the message is revealed by burning letters and shapes into the fabric, encouraging people to reflect on consumer habits and highlighting the importance of sustainability.
Humanistan
Collectively unsynchronized. The fine line between camaraderie and rivalry in competition.
“Humanistan” unites languages, scripts, and traditions through seams into a collage of unity and diversity.
letter=form=uniform?
This ongoing project explores the link between a letter, form and uniform. If a letter is a form, then a typeface is a set of smaller forms and uni-form by definition only means “a whole”. By this logic, the project claims that typographic systems, can also be presented with their own uniforms! The garment with its material resembles paper (on which we usually present type), the silhouette is reminiscent of a soldier and sewn from letter forms of a designed typographic system.
Mados Infekcija 2024
Mados Infekcija [Fashion Infection] does not seek to determine the trends of one or another season. It’s the biggest Lithuanian fashion festival happening each year in Lithuania since 1999.
This year event venue was chosen in church as fashion and the church are two inseparable poles throughout the ages.
Visual comes from 6 different synthetic generative images in sense of church interior while typography takes note on patterns, stained glass and window frame animation.
Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel said “Fashion is a language without words. It is a form of expression that speaks through fabrics, colors and silhouettes, just like words in a poem or a novel.”
Based on Man Ray’s iconic photography, she re-interpreted his timeless elegance. For the quote I have designed an original typography that screams the audacity and innovation of Chanel. My work pays tribute to her eternal legacy.
Follow this trend
Puffer collection is a response to the fashion trend of puffer fabric. Pieces are embroidered with letterings that are linked to slang expressions of young people, such as Slay, Can’t ghost me or On fleek. The cut of the yellow vest mirrors the word slay, crafted from four letters S, L, A, Y.
Textil
The fashion collection “Textil” explores the boundaries between fashion design and communication design in a new way. Subtle text on clothing creates an interaction between typography, clothing and wearer. The black and white individual pieces become concrete poetry.