Idpure magazine article- Selective Utopia

Written by: Sacha Roulet

Summary of the article:

This article is written by Sacha Roulet and this person says that when design comes together with art, or when art is interpreted into certain designs, this can create a very impactful and memorable pieces. This tends to work most likely with cloth designs. Then the author lists some example of cases in which there were art interpreted into design or when the designer used an art piece as their model to design. In addition, in the new age, there are lots of uses of geometry to make the piece meaningful and this was evoked by painters such as Paul Laffoley and David Thorpe. There are shapes such as circles, triangles, squares and pentagrams that have symbolic value. Laffoley associated shapes with extremely hierarchical mysticism and Thrope said it was more like an ‘urban romantic utopia’. To summarize, most of this article was about geometry and art pieces being interpreted into design.