I write down key words to describe this year’s degree projects in Graphic Design and Illustration. I write words such as place, nature, memories, archive and family. Then I write constraints. Of course, the word constraints – or its synonym restrictions – has characterised our graduating students’ three years at Konstfack. They have had to adapt to at times stringent constraints regarding access to the school as a place for creation and social interaction. But it is not only because of this that the word is relevant. It is also about constraints as artistic resource, a starting point for exploration and play.
Recurrent in our students’ degree projects is a curiosity about the incomplete, the reluctant and the elusive. Capsized relationships and neglected places. And that which is only fragments of life – letters and faded photographs – gives rise to lively dialogue.
Here is a desire to twist and turn materials, objects and places – to find that which chafes and sticks out – the mutated flower in the garden and the dying Tamagotchi on the bedside table. The knob in the tree trunk.
Our students’ works show the value of the creative craft. They explore the world and at the same time make it bigger.
Jöns Mellgren, Programme Co-ordinator, Graphic Design and Illustration
I write down key words to describe this year’s degree projects in Graphic Design and Illustration. I write words such as place, nature, memories, archive and family. Then I write constraints. Of course, the word constraints – or its synonym restrictions – has characterised our graduating students’ three years at Konstfack. They have had to adapt to at times stringent constraints regarding access to the school as a place for creation and social interaction. But it is not only because of this that the word is relevant. It is also about constraints as artistic resource, a starting point for exploration and play.
Recurrent in our students’ degree projects is a curiosity about the incomplete, the reluctant and the elusive. Capsized relationships and neglected places. And that which is only fragments of life – letters and faded photographs – gives rise to lively dialogue.
Here is a desire to twist and turn materials, objects and places – to find that which chafes and sticks out – the mutated flower in the garden and the dying Tamagotchi on the bedside table. The knob in the tree trunk.
Our students’ works show the value of the creative craft. They explore the world and at the same time make it bigger.
Jöns Mellgren, Programme Co-ordinator, Graphic Design and Illustration
