Creative Design: Professional

La Source

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Abstract

La Source is the visual story the designer felt compelled to conjure among the multitude of concepts woman embodies and metaphors she symbolizes; a woman as a source of life and death and her body as a passage through the endless interactions and dynamics between life and death. The life-death dichotomy was achieved by various design principles; red and black were chosen as the main colors to reflect the various symbolic meanings (e.g., blood, life, and death);  the textual contrast emphasized the dichotomy; and the combination of fixed forms and free shapes heightened the ambivalent feeling of the co-existence of life and death within a woman's body. The dynamics generated from the life-death interactions were represented with the linear elements carefully planned, symbolizing the path all humans takes to the end of their life; and the irregular drapery created with no pre-planning or rules, symbolizing the vicissitude of life.

Keywords: female’s body, sustainable design, life-death, female body, social notions of woman, Social notions of woman

How to Cite:

Shin, J., (2020) “La Source”, International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings 77(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/itaa.12124