Creativeworld 2023 under the motto: Spot on Handicraft
Spot on Handicraft stands for mindful diversity and responsibility. Whether knitting, crocheting, sewing, painting, drawing, illustrating, expressing oneself with colour, leaving everything to chance or drawing inspiration from biophilic design: the variety of techniques, materials and creative ideas seems almost endless. The fun of doing it yourself is paramount in each of these artistic activities.
With illustrative power, sensitive biology and innocent charm, the trend bureau bora.herke.palmisano has defined three trend themes that summarise all the current hobby and craft themes for the 2023 season.
illustrative power: intense, spontaneous and unmissable
A strong colourfulness and illustrativeness runs through the illustrative power theme. Radiant and striking colours, prints and patterns emanate a powerful energy that overlays existing décors and thus reinvents them.
Using techniques such as mash up, which are actually known from the music world, pieces are mixed together differently to create new creations. It is a mixture of the real world and fantasy that makes for spontaneous results. The random is wanted and desired. That's why illustrative power requires courage. Courage to use techniques that leave the result still open. In any case, this makes for surprising creations.
For demanding artists with sensitive hands, for example, the Japanese Suminagashi technique (Japanese for floating ink) offers a challenge. Here, multi-coloured Japanese inks and ox gall are used to create abstract patterns on a water surface, which are then skimmed onto paper.
In addition, the enduring theme of hand-lettering has reached its next stage: typographies become three-dimensional. With coloured cardboard and sophisticated cuts, the design of fonts becomes an art form. Or monograms and initials are incorporated in high-contrast intarsia knitting, offering ideas for individual gifts.
Sensitive biology: delicate, far-sighted and inspired by nature
The wondrous world of insects, as seen under the microscope, is the focus of sensitive biology. Abstract motifs from the winged cosmos are expressed with structures, divisions and facets. Fine veins, cells and fields of an insect wing serve as inspiration for delicate and filigree works of art. Butterflies, for example, provide a perfect template for artistic reliefs.
With embossing pens and soft papers, high-quality greeting cards are created. Dragonflies, stag beetles, bees and co. can be worked out of exquisite paper in fine cut-work with a lot of perseverance and skill. Materials such as yarns, ribbons, wires and beads, which can be crocheted, knitted or braided to create delicate shapes, go well with the filigree motifs. This is how jewellery, bags, accessories, wall and table decorations are created, for example.
Macramé also continues to play a major role here, especially for body jewellery and garments. Using the different properties of various cords, varied and amazing results are created. For appealing decorations, unconventional weaving with rattan material or wicker can be used.
Innocent charm: carefree, blossoming, radiant with happiness
There is something naive and childlike in the motive and colour world of innocent charm. A humorous look at everyday things can be captured with the creative technique "charming paperworks", where leaves, blossoms, plants or even vegetables are freely and carefree recreated in clay paper. Things get folkloristic with the Pajaki lights, a Polish tradition for Easter, Christmas and birthdays. The colourful chandeliers are said to bring good luck and health and provide hobby artists with a veritable Eldorado of craft techniques and themes. Wire rings, straws, beads, wool for pompons, tassels and many more are used. The re-use idea is particularly effective at innocent charm. Leftover is the motto here: everything that is left over from other projects is used. Multi-coloured patterns are created when leftover beads of all colours and shapes are threaded and then knitted or sewn together. Or wool scraps that are used for knitting and crochet socks. Over all lies the imaginative mix of styles that expresses itself with small figures and patterns.