Dutch designers Nikki Gonnissen and Vicente Granger have produced a series of flags for the 2015 Brazilian Design Biennial that reference the colors and shapes of buildings all around the host city of Florianopolis.
The designers, who perform for Amsterdam studio Thonik, based mostly the 28 flags on the exterior decorations of houses and buildings discovered around Florianopolis in southern Brazil, in which the biennale was held earlier this 12 months.
Every flag in the series portrays a feature from a diverse local building, focusing on particulars including perpendicular railings, window arches, and distinctive architectural mouldings.
The flags choose up on the bright colours of the buildings, turning person sections of the houses’ exteriors into graphic motifs.
A dark and light blue flag depicts the shadows designed by a set of balcony railings, whilst one more flag turns decorative plaster into an orange and white symbol.
The two designers visited the residents of each and every building featured in the series, making use of the flags as a “catalyst” to uncover neighborhood stories, histories and political perspectives.
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Residents were later photographed holding the flags outdoors their respective buildings.
“Usually you make a flag for a nation, and we manufactured a flag for a single individual,” Gonnissen informed Dezeen. “They expressed that citizens have a lot more rights than the state. People began to speak because of them.”
Gonnissen and Granger had been invited by Jorn Konijn, the curator of the Dutch pavilion – held in the Palácio Cruz e Sousa in Florianopolis – to contribute.
The task was prompted by Gonnissen’s study into Florianopolis’ background as the web site of the 1st big-scale public demonstration against the military regime in Brazil, which took area in front of the identical creating the Dutch pavilion occupied.
“As graphic designers we constantly use clear photos and colors and deliver back chaotic data into a clear symbol which is a commencing level,” Gonnissen said. “From there we communicate via diverse media. In this instance the flag is the medium.”
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“When you make a new symbol for a flag, if you consider a entire constructing it’s not powerful adequate so you compress it into a really clear and daring symbol,” she added.
In addition to the flags, the duo also designed banners for a web site-certain efficiency at the museum, as nicely as developing a set of ‘letter-dresses’ that brought with each other words celebrating “democracy, free of charge speech and creativity”.
The 2015 Brazilian Layout Biennial took place from 15 May to twelve July 2015.
Flags are at present also a scorching subject in New Zealand, which is asking residents to vote for which one of 4 styles by members of the public could exchange the country’s present nationwide banner.
