A Journey Through Steam
look-book
ROLE:
Illustration & Graphics
Objectives:
LuxE Meets (STeam)Punk
: Gearing up for an adventure
This surface design is inspired by a fictitious nautical steampunk era. The objective was to create patterns, in this sub-genre of science fiction, with a more mature and luxurious feel that would appeal to costume or set designers, cosplayers, or fabric manufacturers. Hidden with the damask and asymmetrical patterns reveal a hidden ecosystem that lurks within the depths of the ocean mixed with mechanical and industrial motifs. This look-book follows a traveler logging their journey and experiences across a fantastical world.
Icons include different types of cogs and gears. The negative space in-between these mechanical components create new icons that are more organic in nature. Other motifs can be interpreted as bubbles, waves, seaweed, a submarine, and mechanical sea creatures that lurk in the depth of the sea.
The badges are arranged to create new symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns. The color palette consists of hues of blues, purples, and reds with a lower saturation and deeper tones. The metallic texture and elements are intended to be foils on the patterns to imitate precious metals like gold, silver, and copper. While the bright teals imitate the “bioluminescence” of certain sea creatures.
On the traveler’s journey across the world, they meet strangers with fashionable clothing and are invited to these strangers' humble abodes decorated with nautical themed trinkets and wallpapers. The traveler photographs these encounters and logs them in a loose-leaf journal.
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