Cultural heritage enhacing driven by design in ceramics

January 30, 2014 by Luiza Barroso

For this project I have developed a methodology to insert cultural identity elements into ceramic plates designed to the tourism market of my hometown, Florianópolis in Brazil. The goal was to deliver the visitors keys to know more about the material and immaterial cultural heritage of the city through a complete gastronomic experience. This project had three phases: research of the city icons and graphic translation of these icons into patterns, design of the plate and conception of the packaging.

Categories: ceramics • Tags: ceramics, cultural iconography, cultural identity, icons, patterns, product design

Cache-pot

January 9, 2014 by Luiza Barroso

  Wheel-thrown earthenware cache-pot. Decorated with bleu azur brillant Duncan slip.

Categories: ceramics • Tags: cache-pot, ceramics, earthenware, product design, vase, wheel throwing

The riddle of the rattle

January 9, 2014 by Luiza Barroso

I’ve made this rattle for a little contest we had in my wheel-throwing class, which theme was “baby’s best ceramic gift”, at the occasion of the royal baby birth. The requirement was that it was a wheel-thrown baby themed object. I decided to make some rattles for the parents to play with the newborn. It was a nice puzzle to figure out how to make these, specially the glazing. They are fully wheel-thrown in two pieces each, and filled with […]

Categories: ceramics • Tags: baby rattle, ceramic gift, ceramics, earthenware, product design, rattle, royal baby birth, wheel throwing

Brown bottle vase

January 9, 2014 by Luiza Barroso

This vase shaped like a bottle is wheel-thrown in earthenware and decorated with colored slip and covered with transparent glaze.

Categories: ceramics • Tags: bottle, ceramic flower vases, ceramics, flower vase, product design, vase, wheel throwing

Blue vases

January 9, 2014 by Luiza Barroso

Duo of ceramic flower vases wheel-thrown in a creamy earthenware clay and hand-painted with a light blue semi-transparent slip, covered with transparent glaze. Textured on the top with relief stripes.

Categories: ceramics • Tags: ceramic flower vases, ceramics, crafts, decoration, earthenware clay, product design, soliflore, vase, wheel throwing

Ceramic textures

December 20, 2013 by Luiza Barroso

  Alongside my work on the wheel I develop a research on surface textures to apply on my ceramic products, in order to explore all the sensitive potential of the material.    

Categories: ceramics • Tags: ceramics, product design, texture

Artisan cachaça bottle

December 18, 2013 by Luiza Barroso

This bottle was crafted to hold a great artisan cachaça I brought from my last trip to Brazil. This cachaça was crafted by the owner of a small restaurant at Costa da Lagoa in Floripa and he gave it to me as a keepsake of our lunch after the trekking that got us there. As he didn’t have any bottle he gave it to me in some anonymous plastic water bottle and I thought it deserved some better packaging. This […]

Categories: ceramics • Tags: bottle, Brazil, cachaça, ceramics, crafts, product design, wheel throwing

Sugar bowl

December 5, 2013 by Luiza Barroso

For this sugar bowl my inspiration came from japanese design for the simple lines and the light feel of the handle. This is a earthenware piece decorated with colored slip covered with transparent glazing and sgraffito details on the handle.

Categories: ceramics • Tags: ceramics, crafts, earthenware, product design