I kicked off my tour of the London Design Festival this morning with a visit to Danish textile company Kvadrat’s London showroom. The space, designed by architect David Adjaye and designer Peter Saville, is worthy of a blog entry of its own, but I went there to see some brilliant new work by Barcelona-born graphic and print designer Cristian Zuzunaga, who has created a collection of curtains for Kvadrat using bold architectural shapes. The two designs, Skyline and Cityscape, feature multiple overlapping layers, which reveal subtle shapes and unexpected colours. He has also designed a colourful cushion collection for Kvadrat called Squaring of the Circle.
Originally a student of typography and graphic design, Zuzunaga’s creative epiphany came when he discovered the tactile and imperfect qualities of letterpress printing and he was inspired to work with textiles after a trip to Shanghai to research ultra-modern architecture. Zuzunaga’s recent work takes photography – usually pictures of cityscapes – as its starting point. He then renders them in pixels and uses them to create artworks and fabric patterns. ‘My patterns derive from zooming in on images I have taken of cityscapes until the image is broken down into infinitesimal geometric shapes,’ says the designer, who describes his work as ‘a metaphor for our cities, illustrating the ways in which they can only exist as a result of endless combinations of individual characters’. 
A big fan of collaboration, Zuzunaga has also teamed up with multimedia designers Digital Tea, who have used his designs to create an interactive installation at the Kvadrat showroom.
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