This project stems from the concern to learn more about the species behind my favorite dishes and the curiosity to understand and question the actual relationship between humans and food. Our disconnection with nature is driving us closer to a dystopian reality and reminding us of the simplicity of life matters. Food is the primary source of human energy, it is what keeps us alive, and we have taken it for granted.
Don’t forget to eat slowly is a space to reflect, rethink, and revalue our relationship with edible species. Storytelling to create a contemporary food ritual to experience within a fictional scenario, a metaphor of human-nature negotiation.
[click the first image to see the video]
What if we disconnect to connect?
This is an exploration between reality and fantasy, tangible and intangible, handmade and machine-made. A tool to encourage people to take some time for introspection, inducing them to a light meditation through a multi-sensory experience. A bridge to imagine.
Sabine testing the sensorial base, Konstfack, 2019.
Sensorial base details.
Anonymous note from someone who tried the base.
With this series I explored the construction of a basic comb to understand the possibilities of the shape and the material.
Video interpretation of two improvised sound pieces, recorded at Konstfack Research week in Node II: Listening, Imagining, Encountering, and Inventing the Aural. The sound production and the video shooting was an improvised performance too.
By Erik Vallbo, Olga Olivares, Franziska Bax
[From 2012 to 2018]
Innovative design studio based in Mexico City with a unique focus on social design. With an aesthetic that overlaps fashion and art, TALLER NU transcended mass consumption while crafting exceptional footwear and leather goods.
Through collaboration and social impact, we inspired a new business focus of ethical and sustainable fashion. Generating employment, training and teaching productive skills in a stigmatized sector such as the penitentiary population, we tackled the main problems inmates will face once they are released, avoiding possible recidivism.
TALLER NU was founded in 2012 by designers Olga Olivares and Pilar Obeso.
Taller Nu studio// photo: @coolhuntermx
Olga Olivares// photo: @coolhuntermx
Pilar Obeso// photo: @coolhuntermx
CERESO Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón facility// photo: Eunice Adorno
CERESO Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón facility// photo: Eunice Adorno
CERESO Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón facility// photo: Eunice Adorno
CERESO Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón facility// photo: Eunice Adorno
CERESO Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón facility// photo: Eunice Adorno
Our constant search to learn new techniques landed us in Oaxaca. With the meticulous hand of artist and designer Maddalena Forcella, we were able to immerse ourselves in the elusive world of natural dyes and ancestral textile techniques. Leather and Chamula wool, in addition to rich colours like indigo and yellow —that emerge from natural ingredients— are the central components of this new collection.
Beautiful objects that stimulate paradigm shift. These pieces rescue much of the artisan, while transforming the environment and the ways of consuming —and perceiving— the everyday.
In this collection, we reinterpreted some traditional patterns from Oaxaca and Chiapas and applied them to our numen essential boots with embroidered leather.
[photos by Gustavo García-Villa]
In this exercise, we explored the possibilities of different materials applied to our first shoe model. The work features cross-stitch embroidery in degraded tones to create more texture. The mixture of colors, materials and the environment in which the production took place gave rise to the title of Tropical NU.
[photos by Cuahutemoc García]
In this first shoe collection, we tested different types of embroidery on leather, tracing cross-stitching patterns that reference past embroideries from Venustiano Carranza and Zinacantán, Chiapas.
[photos by Cuauhtemoc García]
Filia, memories from Earth is a collection of soft accessories that reflect on the relationship between human beings and animals. The work’s main intention is to teach kids the importance of respect and admiration for every single living organism on the planet. This idea is driven by silhouettes that simulates bodies of various endangered species, creating playful products that encourage the imagination.
B.A Textile and Fashion Design final project, CENTRO, 2009.
Photo: Gregory Allen/ Models: Antaya & Kolyan/ Hair: Janis
Tapir cap
Macaw vest
Antelope slipper
Bat wrap
Ocelot bag
Howler monkey backpack
3.6 kg refers to the total weight of 23 garments designed, dyed and made up during a period of two months. 3 different tones of grey were utilized with each piece of fabric representing an extension of the human body. The result: simple cut silhouettes with unique and specific attention to detail.
Lacoste 12.12 is a philanthropy based project that gathers a group of personalities from diverse cultural fields, and centers them around the subject of a crocodile as an artistic point of reference.