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Cleaned-up design through Figma + can pattern trial

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Analogue design converted to computer through photopea

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Background Practice/First Trials in Figma

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analogue exploration 2

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analogue exploration

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2002 : Horse (馬, mǎ)

This year’s element is water.

Colours that are mentioned as being lucky for this zodiac are brown, blue, green and yellow (conversely, blue is also labelled as an unlucky colour depending on the source). Lucky numbers are 7, 15, 2 and 3.

As a whole, horses are surrounded by much mythology and folklore - from the top of my head I can think of centaurs, unicorns and Pegasus. They play a significant part in Chinese folklore, such as Tiānmǎ (天馬), ‘heavenly horse’ - a winged horse, Lóngmǎ (龙马), ‘dragon horse’, covered in dragon scales, Bo (a horse with a single horn, tiger feet, and ‘saw-like tiger’s teeth’) and Mǎmiàn of Niú Tóu Mǎ Miàn (牛頭 馬面), ‘Ox-Head and Horse-Face’.

Various iterations of a ‘water horse’ have been described in the folklore of many different cultures - the kelpie (Scotland), Morvarc'h (Breton), the hippocampus (Ancient Greece), the nykur (Faroe Islands), the nuckelavee (Orkeny Islands), the brag (Northumbria), the Dunnie (Northumberland), the Ceffyl Dŵr (Wales), the bäckahäst (Scandinavia), and could even be associated with other, more sea serpent-like cryptids, such as Ogopogo (Canada), Champ (America and Canada), the Loch Ness Monster, and the Morag (Scotland).

Some are simply water horses, whereas some are shapeshifters that often take, or only alternate between, the form of a horse.

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Yayoi Kusama

She was inspired by both american abstract impressionism and the hallucinations she had as a child, and used art to cope with her condition. She was a part of the avant garde scene in 1960s New York. Initially snubbed from success and having her art and ideas stolen by her peers, she struggled with her mental health and suicide attempts until she admitted herself into a mental hospital that allowed her to build a studio there. Kusama is known for soft sculpture and infinity rooms, but is most recognisable through her use of polka dots.

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art nouveau, 1890 - 1910

Characterised by asymmetry and ‘whiplash lines’ - a curling, often s-shaped motif that, much like art nouveau as a whole, drew from plants and other natural forms.

Art Nouveau paved the way for art deco and sought to move away from historical styles. It united artists, interior designers and architects, and challenged the idea that painting and sculpture were superior to other artistic crafts, like illustration, graphic design, woodwork, and ironwork.

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asset catalogue

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monochromatic

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complimentary

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analogous

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the contrast is super striking

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refined, soft elegance

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The colours are muted, calming.