Influences

Influences

Alessia Giardino is a textile and surface designer. Her understanding for the contemporary social aspects of design, always approached with an experimental and innovative mindset, constantly pushes her to challenge boundaries of established design cliche'.
Graduated from Central Saint Martins (London), with an MA in Design for Textile Future, she especially foregrounds innovation and materials, highlighting their sensorial and aesthetic features. Her recent project has been selected and is permanently showcased in the Inspiration Centre of Materia. Travelling from Netherlands to Canada, it has been furthermore exhibited within Nissan Design Europe and Salone del Mobile in Milan.

She is the co-founder of Thread Count Lab, a resource, laboratory, studio and artist’s workshop for the material minded.

I really like the art that Alessia creates.  A lot of her work improves or grows over time.  The way she creates surfaces that react to their surroundings is great.  I appreciate this type of art coming from an architectural background myself.

Tetsumi Kudo

No matter how, it is important to think about the relationship of polluted nature to the proliferation of electronics…the decomposition of humanity (humanism) and the old and traditional hierarchy of values. –Tetsumi Kudo, 1971

"I now prophesy the growth of the new ecology in the swamp of "polluted nature" and "decomposing humanity." –Tetsumi Kudo, 1971

Tetsumi does a lot of work regarding pollution and a lot of this is sculptural.  I really like the sculptural side and have tried to use this in my own work.