EIDO
Title: Eido (Greek)
Phonetic spelling: [i'-do]
Translation: "I see"
Phonetic spelling: [i'-do]
Translation: "I see"
Meaning: to see or to perceive, to comprehend or gain insight, both physically as well as mentally and spiritually. Root form of "idea".
CONCEPT
Character concept created for the embodiment of the pure idea. The concept being that an idea will layer much like an onion or a fruit with a core. So the constellation will always be the same but the iterations are infinite in variation and form.
EXHIBITION
The ’Eido’ concept was created for an exhibition in Urban Spree gallery in Berlin, in conjunction with the Pictoplasma character festival. The exhibition was a group show, featuring the Pictoplasma Academy 2015 workshop alumni, in form of the creative collective ‘DasGhost’.
The ‘Eido’ concept was presented in the exhibition through a mixed media sculpture as well as a print design, a memory game card set design and a sticker book design for sale in the gallery store.
SCULPTURE
With a living, liquid core the idea is surrounded by a frame and outer layers, to incubate and protect it, until it is ready to spread wings and fly.
Mixed media sculpture, with moving parts.
Measuring 20x26x60 cm.
Pre-exhibition setup
Final setup
Final Setup
Cloaked State
Cloaked State
Outer cape montaged with hinge joints
Video - Turn around
Video - Hinge joint demonstration
PRINT
Both print and sticker design were made to represent earlier stages of evolution or development of the sculpture edition of ‘Eido’.
Final illustration
The packaged print
Pencil sketch, inked version and final coloured version.
CARD GAME
The print design was also used for a card set in a memory game named ‘The Doppelgänger’, featuring a card set design from each of the 'DasGhost' members.
Packaged card game
STICKERBOOK
Sticker design for Stickerbook collaboration with Klebstoff / Stickermag, featuring sticker designs from ‘DasGhost’ members.
Sticker illustration
Stickerbook
Sticker sketch
ANIMATION
Post exhibition hand drawn animation loop.
Eight frame animation loop
L'UOMO VITRUVIANO
The initial sketch for the sculpture, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’.
Initial sculpture concept sketch
TRANSFORMATION MASKS
The main inspiration for the sticker and sculpture design was predominantly drawn from the Native American ‘Transformation Masks’, seen on a visit to the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, in the first days of the Pictoplasma Academy workshop, thus tying the whole experience together (on a personal level)...
