Communication Design School of Design
Hanne Bergqvist
My design practice revolves around exploring lost or unknown parts of cultural history, creating narratives and linking past to present. Often taking a research-based approach to my work, I find inspiration in personal stories and niche archives.
I am drawn to representing the domestic, personal and everyday through object-making and craft techniques, often taking cues from existing visual languages to reframe the subject matter in a new context.
Material exploration is a very important part of my work and I am interested in challenging traditional formats, creating tactile experiences where materiality helps craft new narratives.
Interwoven
Weaving and technology are inextricably linked. The invention of the Jacquard loom automated the weaving process with the help of punch cards. Using binary logic, they determine the position of threads in a woven pattern – a system commonly considered to be the forerunner of computers. The binary structure – 1 or 0, warp or weft – is still used today to store all our data and information. This work challenges our contemporary view of the analogue and digital as dichotomous by dissecting and intertwining the visual language and common underlying structures of these two seemingly disparate technologies.
Pub Club Cover
Cover design for the After School Pub Club project. Visualising the second issue’s theme of workshop instructions, the cover creates an abstract and humorous explanation of what happens during a Pub Club meeting.Taking inspiration from diagrams and manuals, the cover is a summation of our memories of things said, made, eaten and written during the year of making the publication.
Collaboration with Maya Howard.