Sketchbook Abstracts (2024)
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 with a fourth addition in early 2021. The Sketchbook Abstract series is extended with a new set of three motifs in 2024 together with a limited silkscreen edition printed on upholstery fabric made in collaboration with furniture maker Wendelbo.
Project information
Title: Sketchbook Abstracts
Object: Illustration series
Client: Paper Collective
Sizes: 100x140 cm / 70x100 cm / 50x70 cm / 30x40 cm
Material: 200 g uncoated, FSC certified, acid-free paper. Produced in Denmark.
Design: Jonas Wagell
Year: 2024
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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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