Ellinor Askerblom
Design BA
HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Furniture / Fine Art / Creative Writing
My location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Ellinor Askerblom
First Name: Ellinor
Last Name: Askerblom
University / College: HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design
Course / Program: Design BA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Furniture / Fine Art / Creative Writing
My Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
About
I enjoy all sorts of creation and have lately been the most into furniture design and working with wood as a meduim. I recently graduated from university with a bachelor's in design, but I have also been to art school, where I focused on painting and drawing.
I have a holistic approach to my design and always pay close attention to detail. I believe detail is the last and most crucial step to finding things complete.
This graduate project aims to explore the relationship between conceptual and physical artifacts. How can a literary source material be used to shape something three-dimensional, escaping the boundaries of the thought? Two novels and one short story acted source material, from which three separate artifacts were picked and translated. The word translation has been closely regarded during the process, all design choices justified by the source material. Once completed, as shown here, the artifacts are intended to be able to function without the source material, and since translation implies a still-active connection to the source, the artifacts are in the result of their finished physicality considered interpretations. We all come with our own perceptions, and thus preconceptions, of the world, and this will affect how we visualize what is not visible. The project prompts thoughts about how different concepts are imagined by different people, and how different people encounter the same physical artifact in different ways.
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