Awarded
Noémie Arrigo / Corina Neuenschwander
'2ème PEAU, inspiré par Noëmi Wüst ' (diploma work)
Design graphique
Awarded
'2ème PEAU, inspiré par Noëmi Wüst ' (diploma work)
Design graphique
Staged nightmares
The two graphic artists Noémie Arrigo and Corina Neuenschwander designed a magazine for their diploma project at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich that links different fields together – they are graphics, photography and fashion – on an interdisciplinary basis, working from a fashion designer's collection. The magazine '2e PEAU inspiré par Noëmi Wüst insomnia' is in two parts, and the title itself refers to Noëmi Wüst's collection, which circles around the theme of nightmares. The two parts of the magazine are both in a black cover and can be separated along a perforation. The two graphic designers present the five garments differently and in their own way for this look book. Viewers are led through just as many nightmare worlds, and thus approach the collection gradually. Garments as a second skin, tight-fitting, constraining, nightmarish?
This stock of nightmares is fed from personal memories, dexterously manipulated in the main part of the magazine. The graphic designers, working with Noëmi Wüst, have coined nine terms fundamental to '...insomnia...' and then split these down into different sequences, freely interpreted and manipulated both graphically and pictorially. The photographic works skilfully capture terms like compulsion, constraint, dream and reality. Viewers gag on seeing bizarre objects crammed into jars. At the same time the graphic design is unsettling in many places with its games located somewhere between trompe-l'oeil and reality. Are the pressed flowers real or printed?
Corina Neuenschwander and Noémie Arrigo take full advantage of the theme's possibilities, captivating and unsettling their public with an abundance of associations, visual experiences and sensual traces. The two of them devised all the content of the publication, as well as the concept: texts, photographs and graphic presentations. The jury praises the carefully designed magazine and the eerie atmosphere, skilfully captured in terms of both form and content. They appreciated the varied design and were impressed by the photographs.
Ariana Pradal
Noémie Arrigo
Born in
1981
Education
Designer FH, Studienbereich Visuelle Kommunikation
Corina Neuenschwander
Born in
1980
Education
Graphic Designer