Black sketches

The design team Nendo has built a collection on the theme "Outlines". Slight black lines like the traces of sketches drawn in the air made transparent surfaces and volumes appear. These volumes and surfaces where then assigned practical functions. The outlines remained after simplifying paintings of plants and animals. Nendo wants them to be condensed expressions of meaning, similar to Japanese calligraphy. The designs gently break the relationship of before and behind, and traverse at times the space
between two and three dimensions. Multi-faceted and constantly morphing, they move alternately between the becoming and collapse of form.

The Thin Black Lines collection will be shown in a solo exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London from the 20th of September until October 31st.

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