There is nothing better than returning to nature again and again in one way or another. If we can't afford a walk every day, we can simply bring nature home. The team of Slovenian designers DSGN Domus returns to it with aesthetically perfect wooden products, and its 'partner in creativity' Fat Rat with symmetrical and urban prints of wild animals.
Just out of desire »back to nature" young Slovenian designers come out, Gregor Ilnikar and Jure Klemenčič, which were just before the end of last year under the name DSGN Domus exhibited its wooden products for the first time - table lamp and simple but interesting household board. They each started cultivating their passion for creativity in their childhood, when they created in their home workshop, and later became classmates at university. It didn't take long for them to realize how many similar ideas and concepts they had, so they came up with the idea of collaborating with each other. Similarly, Gregor and Petra Ogrin, who initially created under the brand Fat Rat, which was then taken over by Petra with even more urban graphics and prints, while Gregor took it to wooden waters.
When the two boys describe the work process, it seems that for them it is putting together a puzzle, which they enjoy immensely, which is also reflected in the products, which, together with the name, label and attractive packaging, easily become part of the home. Med aesthetically perfect products that are practical at the same time and, on top of that, can be completely recycled, we now find a table lamp made of walnut, birch, elm and acacia wood, as well as kitchen boards of a slightly different shape.
Wood for the boy who is already making new ones, even more environmentally friendly products, which for now only hint that they will be a fusion of wood and concrete, means a disconnection from the everyday, something creative, but at the same time an unlimited possibility of creation. »It is difficult to describe, it is something similar to what a brush and a canvas mean to a painter," they say and do not hide that their dream is to make a living from their hobby.
From hipster deer to wild forest animals
With new, innovative thematic graphics prints will also be served this year by Petra, who is in the middle of creating a new Fat Rat collection of silkscreen prints and unique graphics of geometric lines. You can recognize them from afar by their animal shapes and down to the smallest detail refined images. While during the Christmas season she presented, among other things, a mischievous hipster deer with glasses in a shirt and a sweater, in previous collections she also depicted a rhinoceros, a tiger, an owl and a giraffe. »The prints are mostly really animals. The story is basically quite funny because Gregor and I were talking one day, completely out of context, about how wild animals are called in Spanish. Since we didn't know, we threw out: Loz animalez vajld, which is basically a mixture of Spanish and English (loz animalez = los animales = animals, vajld = wild = wild). I thought it was pretty fun and that's how the wildlife graphics came about. The first collection is also called Loz animalez vajld," explains Petra. And if we were wondering why there is no rat among the game, the answer is simple: "Because the blacksmith's rat is always barefoot.”
Although Petra hasn't pushed her socks yet, we can think about it for the cold winter days a printed sweater or T-shirt, we shop in stores with an attractive shopping bag, and to top it all off, we can attach another to the product wooden brooch. Since the up-and-coming designer wants to create unique, recognizable cuts of clothes with Fat Rat prints, there's no way she won't surprise us with a unique set very soon. In the end, she confided in us that she was in the process of making arrangements for something fresh and even wilder.
