Portfolio_K_Janonyte

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PORTFOLIO
KAROLINA JANONYTE

It is true you can reach
everything working hard but you
will never learn aesthetic sense,
balanced taste or sensitivity
finding ideas if you simply don’t
have it.

Creativity makes always a Karolina Janonyte
difference.

THE TRANSPARENT LANDSCAPE

THE TRANSPARENT LANDSCAPE

Inspirations : canyons/
mountains/details of nature.
The purpose of the project was
to create a creative office
installation for four people.
The working area had to be
consisted of four places for
each individual and one
common zone for working
together.
The principal difficulty of the
project was four different
personalities of employees.

The project was created in
Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
collaborating with Kristina
Saajanaho (interior design
student from Finland, Lahti
University of Applied Sciences).
The main professor / Italian
architect and designer: Michele
de Lucchi.

top view / photograhy of physical model VisCom

6000 16 - 18 October 2014

THE TRANSPARENT LANDSCAPE was exhibited in international
trade fair for visual communication "VisCom" in Milan, Italy.

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(photography from the fair/www.viscomitalia.it)

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The physical model basically
was made by hands in
polytechnic special working
areas. The lower part of model
was made by hands, for the
upper part we used laser
cutting.
Materials : 3 mm plywood.

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VOLATILE

Sometimes I think It is true you
can reach everything working
hard but you will never learn
aesthetic sense, balanced taste
or sensitivity finding ideas if you
simply don’t have it.

Creativity always makes a
difference.

THE SUSPENDED LAMP

VOLATILE

Volatile is suspended lamp
which was designed in
Politecnico di Milano (faculty of
architecture, project of product
design subject).

Inspirations:
lightness/flight/wings/facture
of the leaves/ light book pages

In collaboration with student
from France My-Lin Thon /
2014.

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Materials :
The material of this lamp is
brushed aluminum.
For the lightening part was
used OLED lightening which is
very suitable for thin volumes.
The apportionment of OLED
lightening was designed thinking
about details of the nature,
such as factures and textures
of different leaves.
One unite of the Volatile lamp
(the suspension lamp is made
from three units) is very light
and thin.

Length of the lamp: 75 cm
Width of the lamp: 15 cm
Thickness: 3,5 mm

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The main task of creating lamp
was related to the first
assignment of this furniture
design lecture.

The first target was to find out
how mechanism of the chair
“Sedia S88” works and then
explain this by technical
drawings.

The purpose designing the lamp The graphic symbol / was
was to be inspired by this chair created for both - the chair
mechanism. and lamp.

The lamp mechanism allows to The physical model was taken
regulate an intensity and by professors as one of the
strength of the light using best product design models and
mobile wings of the lamp. There will be exhibited as example for
are three different positions. the future students in
The regulation is manual and Politecnico di Milano.
easy.

Sedia S88

graphic symbol
physical model

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different positions of wings dimensions of lateral view

top view / scale 1:10

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technical drawings of Osvardo Borsani chair's "Sedia 88" mechanism and suspended lamp "Volatile" / the real size A0
2014 / Erasmus in Politecnico di Milano

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EXHIBITION DESIGN / TRIENNALE DI MILANO

ASPETTANDO GODOT
WAITING FOR GODOT

The project theme/spectacle –
Waiting for Godot. Author:
Samuel Beckett.

The main purpose was to show
the visitors a mysterious feeling
of waiting. The principal idea
was to design a place where
people lose their time and
space flair like in Samuel
Beckett work. To project a
place where viewers could be
surprised while visiting this
exhibition and would be able to
discover this work in emotional
way as well as in physical

In collaboration with: Federica
Canavesi, Anica Andric, Maria
Cartenolo, Kristina Saajanaho

2014 Politecnico di Milano/ Palazzo dell’Arte, Viale E. Alemagna 6, Milano, first floor plan / project area is red
Professors: Marcello Galbiati 450 square meters
Franco Origoni
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the projection of illuminated tubes construction

The main elements and • Projections of shadows are
constructions which create a used to create a
mysterious and extraordinary confusional sensation.
atmosphere in exhibition interior
space: • Projections of light spots
on the ground with
• Two passages in tunnels characters phrases from
spectacle.
were made using different
• Illuminated hats and
size illuminated tubes suitcases involve visitors
to participate and interact
construction. in exhibition space.

• The reflection of the wall • There are two volumes in
exhibition area which
mirror makes a feeling of introduce all characters
using cinema, graphic
endlessness and it’s illustrations, phrases and
mirror expressions on the
allusion to the “tree” walls.

which is a key element in

set design.

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the first passage

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photographies of physical model

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photograhies of physical model

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The main purpose of this
project was to design an
extraordinary place which would
not be only a boutique or
market but become a creative
space where visitors could
understand the whole history of
every handmade bag.

Inspirations : cinema / leather
/ all possible human senses.

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"tashe tashe" pavilion tttaaassshhheee tttaaassshhheee

Leather handbags brand pavilion mobility of pavilion
was inspired by cinema because
movie is the principal element
creating a new bag for “tashe
tashe”. The pavilion is mobile
and has few functions: cultural
and social – showing movies for
people and other function is
advertising.

The location of pavilion - Vilnius old town city.
This place is on the riverbank

and it is liked by tourists, young people and families.

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