Sketchbook Abstracts (2019/2021)
Paper Collective, Denmark
As an architect and product designer sketching is an integral part of the work process. This is how all projects begin. For me, sketching is a tool to acheive feedback on ideas. A tool to try out shapes and forms. It is intuitive, it is thinking on a piece of paper. My sketches are seldom refined, but often repeated and continuous in search of a specific expression or character, which I later replicate in CAD or with physical models.
For this illustration series for Paper Collective I have swiped through recent sketchbooks and selected a few of my favourite shapes and forms. With use of colours and textures they have transformed into abstract, graphic volumes. In parallel, the illustrations become an 'abstract' — a summary — of my collected notes and inspiration from a certain sketchbook period. As such, the series is called — Sketchbook Abstracts.
The first three illustrations were introduced in the fall of 2019 and in early 2021 the series is extended with Sketchbook Abstract No. 4.
Project information
Title: Sketchbook Abstracts
Object: Illustration series
Client: Paper Collective
Sizes: 70x100 cm / 50x70 cm / 30x40 cm
Material: 200 g uncoated, FSC certified, acid-free paper. Produced in Denmark.
Design: Jonas Wagell
Year: 2019 and 2021
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Jonas Wagell Design & Architecture / JWDA
Swedish architect and designer Jonas Wagell is widely revered for his modern product and furniture design comprising soft, minimalist shapes with a welcoming expression. The Stockholm-based studio’s award-winning work combines graphic simplicity and playfulness to create pieces that typify modern-day life.
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