KANDINSKEYS: Design from the past with current utility.
BACKGROUND
This was one of the most exciting projects I have been into so far. For the History of Design class, the final assignment was to redesign an everyday object, using the concepts and principles of the Bauhaus, presenting all the information as an infographic. So after receiving the assignment, I instantly pictured Wassily Kandinsky in my mind.
Wassily Kandinsky
Early sketches of the idea. The object I chose was the key, a set of keys specifically.
Sketch of the infographic, naming the project "KANDINSKEYS" as a game of words between Kandinsky and Keys
Kandinsky published "Concerning the Spiritual in Art", the first theoretical treatise on abstraction. The inevitable relationship between color and form leads us to observe the effects of form over color. He explains that the shape has its internal sound, like a spiritual entity with identical properties to that. We see him in the Bauhaus, in the the workshop of decorative paint, and he dictated the course of initiation. He had accepted the proposal of Walther Gropius to join the members of the school of design in Weimar, where he was allowed to write their manifestos and publish his book "Point and Line into the Plane".
One of Kandinsky's works.
Kandinsky exposed: "The inevitable relationship between color and form leads us to observe the effects of form over color. Although the form itself is completely abstract and looks like a geometric shape, has its internal sound, it is a spiritual entity with identical properties to that. A triangle (without specifying if sharp, flat or isosceles) is one of those entities with their own spiritual perfume. For other ways, this perfume is differentiated, acquires nuances consonants, but in the end, remains unchanged, as the smell of the rose that ever be confused with Violet.
The same applies to the circle, square and all other forms. Substance opinion objectively envelope.
Here is evident clearly the relationship between form and color.
A painted yellow triangle, a circle of blue, green square, another green triangle, a circle of yellow, blue square, etc., all are completely different entities that act in completely different ways.
Certain colors are enhanced by certain forms and mitigated by others. In any case, colors are more acute in watery qualitative resonance forms (for example, a yellow triangle). In the colors tend to depth, the effect is accentuated by round shapes (eg, a blue circle). Clearly, the dissonance between form and color is not necessarily "disharmonic" but, on the contrary, is a new possibility and, therefore, harmonica.
The number of colors and shapes is infinite, and so are endless combinations and effects simultaneously. The material is inexhaustible".
The same applies to the circle, square and all other forms. Substance opinion objectively envelope.
Here is evident clearly the relationship between form and color.
A painted yellow triangle, a circle of blue, green square, another green triangle, a circle of yellow, blue square, etc., all are completely different entities that act in completely different ways.
Certain colors are enhanced by certain forms and mitigated by others. In any case, colors are more acute in watery qualitative resonance forms (for example, a yellow triangle). In the colors tend to depth, the effect is accentuated by round shapes (eg, a blue circle). Clearly, the dissonance between form and color is not necessarily "disharmonic" but, on the contrary, is a new possibility and, therefore, harmonica.
The number of colors and shapes is infinite, and so are endless combinations and effects simultaneously. The material is inexhaustible".
Eugen Batz, The Spatial Effect of Colours and Shapes, exercise from Wassily Kandinsky's class, 1929
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
Proposal of adapting the basic shapes and colors into the keys
A quick and effective way of finding the correct key
You can alternate the shapes and colors between keys and their respective keyhole frame
How it works?
The idea is to help find the right key to open the doors of your home or office, through a direct relationship between the shape and color of the head of the keys and the locks, because it can be very annoying having to change the key because you did not use the right one. Thus, the KANDINSKEYS are your best friend when you get to your place, and they will also highlighting above the other keys with the unique touch of the legendary Bauhaus itself.
Even if you have lots of keys, you can use different shades of the same color to create more combinations!
In the end, the infographic was printed in A2 size
