How the chilling Women’s Aid ad was created entirely under lockdown

Engine’s creative director Christopher Ringsell explains how the important film was made under government restrictions and shines a light on the the current spikes in domestic abuse.

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Photographer Erli Grünzweil wants to challenge his audience through digital and post-production techniques

Moments from the everyday – like tripping over your shoelaces – are the focus point to the weird and surreal gaze of this Vienna-Based photographer.

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Lukas Haider and Alexander Raffl’s latest collaboration Unknown is a typeface that reminds us to revisit our old notebooks

From rejected pitch to comprehensive typeface, Unknown considers the mechanically constructed and the organically grown – and a symbiosis of the two.

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Studio Goss uses concrete and plaster for Armadillo & Co showroom in Sydney

Concrete, plaster and tiled surfaces offer a neutral backdrop to the pieces on display in this pared-back rug showroom in Sydney, Australia, designed by Studio Goss.

Armadillo & Co is situated in the trendy neighbourhood of Surry Hills and is the third showroom that the Los Angeles-based luxury rug brand has opened in Australia.

As the existing spaces in Melbourne and Brisbane are trade-focused and largely visited by industry professionals, the brand's founders wanted the new Sydney location to offer a more personal retail experience.

Studio Goss was brought on board to overhaul the interiors of the showroom building. Its previous occupants had left behind a "distracting" fit-out that featured metallic and reflective surfaces.

"When we first saw the space it was dramatic but a bit disjointed and visually messy, so our initial focus was on paring things back to bring a sense of clarity to the internal volumes," studio founder David Goss told Dezeen.

"We were really intent on introducing some quieter surfaces to harness and better highlight this magical, ephemeral quality."

The studio first tore away the building's existing flooring to reveal the concrete slab underneath.

A majority of the surrounding walls have been washed in grey plaster or clad in mottled, off-white tiles – simple surfaces against which the sun can cast shadows throughout the day.

"One of the initial sources of inspiration came when we first visited the space and noticed the shadow-play and light quality that transforms the interior as the afternoon sun creates silhouettes of the street trees, projected them deep into the space," explained Goss.

"Some of the references also included the strong architectural forms of Le Corbusier's Chandigarh, the gently textured surfaces of Vincent Van Duysen's C Penthouse and the incredible balance of form in John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin's Neuendorf House."

The focal point of the space is now a dramatic hanging sculpture by local artist Lisa Cooper, which is composed of bundles of foliage and hand-spun khaki wool from one of Armadillo & Co's collections.

As the brand's offices are situated upstairs, the studio also decided to create a window-front communal area that could be used by both staff and customers, bringing a "sense of life" to the showroom's ground floor.

It features a chunky stone table surrounded by black-framed stools, and an oversized paper lantern hangs overhead.

Wide panels of white oak wood have then been arranged in a grid-like fashion across the six-metre-high windows that front the showroom.

They're intended to serve as frames where staff can create merchandise displays to be seen by passersby on the street.

Rugs are displayed across the floor, against the walls, or stacked up on low-lying timber plinths.

Towards the rear of the space there is also a sample room where customers can visualise their purchase in a smaller space that's of more domestic proportions.

Studio Goss was established in 2014 and is based in Collingwood, an inner suburb of Melbourne.

This isn't the first time the studio has worked with a restrained material palette. Back in 2018, it exclusively covered the walls of a clothing store in coarse concrete to emulate the materiality of brutalist architecture.

Photography is by Rory Gardiner.

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"I think of my clothes as shelter" says Roksanda Illinčić in Dezeen's latest podcast

Fashion designer Roksanda Illinčic describes how she learned about dressmaking by slicing up her mother's designer outfits, in the latest episode of Dezeen's Face to Face podcast.

Listen to the episode below or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts to catch the whole series.

In the Face to Face series, Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs sits down with leading architects and designers to discuss their lives and careers.

Fashion designer Roksanda Illinčić features in this week's episode of Face to Face. Photo is by Quentin Jones

Illinčić, whose studio is located on the floor above Dezeen's office in Hoxton, London, is known for her colourful garments and draped dresses which take stylistic queues from her Serbian heritage.

"When you break down my work and look at the shapes, it's all very much part of where I come from and our national costumes," she explained. "Many of those details, I use in my designs as well. Pleats, floral embroidery and humongous big sleeves."

Cutting up Yves Saint Laurent dresses

Illinčić grew up in Belgrade and learned about fashion from her mother's glamorous wardrobe.

In the interview, she recalls how she would steal designer garments and customise them with a pair of scissors to wear to parties.

Illinčić is known for her colourful collections. Photo is by Harry Carr of her Fall 2020 collection

"I used to cheekily steal things when she wasn't around and even go as far as chopping them up and making them shorter," she said in the interview.

"Some of the pieces were brilliant pieces, even by Yves Saint Laurent. Unfortunately even those ended up dissected."

Studying at Central Saint Martins

While she initially studied architecture in Serbia, she couldn't keep away from fashion.

"Instead of buying architecture books, I would just go and spend all my money on buying the most expensive fashion magazines," she remembers.

In the interview she explains her early experiences with fashion design. Photo is by Harry Carr of Illinčić's Fall 2020 collection

After reading about the work of London-based fashion designers such as Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, she moved to the city to study fashion design under the late Louise Wilson at Central Saint Martins.

"I thought I knew quite a lot about fashion already, but when I arrived at Central Saint Martins, I realised 'actually I'm clueless'," she said.

After graduating, she set up her eponymous label Roksanda, which produces two womenswear collections a year at London Fashion Week.

"Soft armour"

Despite abandoning her architecture studies, Illinčić says her work remains influenced by the discipline.

"I always think of my clothes as some sort of shelter. I think that's where the strongest connection with architecture is, not in a shapes, sculptural elements or designs but more how you feel when you wear it," she said.

"And I think you need to feel protected, you need to feel shelter. Like you're wearing some sort of soft armour."

Illinčić thinks of her clothes as a form of shelter and in the interview describes them as a "soft armour". Photo is by Linda Brownlee of her Fall 2020 collection

Read more Dezeen stories about Roksanda Illinčić.

Produced by Dezeen's in-house creative team Dezeen Studio, Face to Face episodes will be released every Tuesday. Interviewees will include Tom Dixon, John Pawson and Norman Foster.

The previous episode of Face to Face featured British architect David Chipperfield, who describes growing up on a farm, struggling at school, how Zaha Hadid saved him from failing his architecture diploma – and why he still suffers from imposter syndrome.

The podcast features original music composed by Japanese designer and sound artist Yuri Suzuki.

Face to Face is sponsored by Twinmotion, the real-time architectural visualisation solution that can create immersive photo and video renders in seconds.

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