Check my portfolio website @ _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Sinon Quilla (Quito, 2000, They/He) is a transdisciplinary maker and designer of mestizo decent*. With a background in decoration, textile, illustration, installation and performance, They use craftsmanship to create personal mythologies and ephemeral speculative cultures. These are defined as emotional prosthetics - armatures, objects and soft technologies that can be armed by the body or interacted with, enabling the user to “Become”, e.g. to undergo metamorphosis and individuation process, and to inhabit again a state of grace and emotional relation that in the contemporary West feels unanimated to the designer. Through this mythological materialization, Sinon delves into ontological aspects of culture and identity, questioning the way we connect with the world and each other through story, cosmology, the body and our emotions. It reveals invisible sensitivities that challenge Western and Capitalist rationality, allowing the reintroduction of emotions, spirituality and fantasy in western design and ultimately offering alternatives and speculations stemming from a multicultural, sensitive and queer perspective. *being of mixed race, especially of mixed Latino and indigenous descent.

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Check my portfolio website @ _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Sinon Quilla (Quito, 2000, They/He) is a transdisciplinary maker and designer of mestizo decent*. With a background in decoration, textile, illustration, installation and performance, They use craftsmanship to create personal mythologies and ephemeral speculative cultures. These are defined as emotional prosthetics - armatures, objects and soft technologies that can be armed by the body or interacted with, enabling the user to “Become”, e.g. to undergo metamorphosis and individuation process, and to inhabit again a state of grace and emotional relation that in the contemporary West feels unanimated to the designer. Through this mythological materialization, Sinon delves into ontological aspects of culture and identity, questioning the way we connect with the world and each other through story, cosmology, the body and our emotions. It reveals invisible sensitivities that challenge Western and Capitalist rationality, allowing the reintroduction of emotions, spirituality and fantasy in western design and ultimately offering alternatives and speculations stemming from a multicultural, sensitive and queer perspective. *being of mixed race, especially of mixed Latino and indigenous descent.

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Sinon Quilla (Quito, 2000, They/He)
is a transdisciplinary maker and designer of mestizo decent*.
With a background in decoration, textile, illustration, installation and performance, They use craftsmanship to create personal mythologies and ephemeral speculative cultures. These are defined as emotional prosthetics - armatures, objects and soft technologies that can be armed by the body or interacted with, enabling the user to “Become”, e.g. to undergo metamorphosis and individuation process, and to inhabit again a state of grace and emotional relation that in the contemporary West feels unanimated to the designer.
Through this mythological materialization, Sinon delves into ontological aspects of culture and identity, questioning the way we connect with the world and each other through story, cosmology, the body and our emotions. It reveals invisible sensitivities that challenge Western and Capitalist rationality, allowing the reintroduction of emotions, spirituality and fantasy in western design and ultimately offering alternatives and speculations stemming from a multicultural, sensitive and queer perspective.
*being of mixed race, especially of mixed Latino and indigenous descent.

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Skills

Su
Surface Pattern Design
Adobe Illustrator
Co
Costume Design
Ed
Editorial Illustration
Il
Illustration
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Experience Level

Surface Pattern Design
Expert
Adobe Illustrator
Expert
Costume Design
Expert
Editorial Illustration
Expert
Illustration
Expert
Fantasy Illustration
Expert
Book Cover
Expert
Fashion Illustration
Expert
Book Illustration
Expert
Set Design
Expert
Product Design
Expert
Poster
Expert
Business Card
Expert
Branding
Intermediate
Character Design
Intermediate
Freelance Gig
Intermediate
Card Deck
Intermediate
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Language

English
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Fluent
French
Fluent

Education

BFA in Fine Art option Textile (Cum Laude) at Haute École des Arts du Rhin
September 1, 2021 - July 25, 2023
Specialisation in Costume for performance, textile devellopment (weaving, knitting, tufting, confection), printing supports (illustration, screenprinting, patterns), product design (Woodwork and ceramics) and performance (choreography, writing and stage and prop design)
Bachelor in Design with honours at Université de Strasbourg
September 1, 2018 - May 31, 2021
Pluridisciplinary approach to design (spatial, object, graphic, multimedia), specialisation in multimedia and graphic design.

Qualifications

Amazing Waste limited edition object Award
May 24, 2023 - May 25, 2023
Granted by DMC for the contest Amazing Waste Award
Les Torchons de Jean Jacques Award
September 16, 2022 - September 17, 2022
Granted by the Henner Museum, Paris with the launch of a limited edition textile print.

Industry Experience

Gaming, Manufacturing, Retail, Travel & Hospitality, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services
    uniE621 Les Torchons de Jean Jacques
    This napkin was created for the contest «Les Torchons de Jean-Jacques», directed by the Henner Museum in Paris and selected for a limited edition sold at the museum boutique. In dark bucolic landscapes, porcelain-haired redheaded nymphs, a seductive and fatal femininity. Jean-Jacques Henner invented a dreamlike and mysterious universe. Unclassifiable, his work remains exceptional among others, and his paintings are immediately identifiable by the elements they represent. This motif brings together the artist’s nude paintings in a single meadow. The motif is a radical synthesis of the artist’s distinctive and unique elements. This synthesis forms a minimal illustrative style. I reinvented the artist’s known works and reintroduce Henner to the eyes of our contemporaries. Check more @ https://www.twine.net/signin branding illustration textile surface pattern objectdesign graphicdesigner
    uniE621 Becoming Her / Hair
    During this partnership with DMC, I got the opportunity to make a more artistic proposal using their non-conforming yarn and turn it into wigs. Inspired by Anne-Marie Mieg and Thérèse de Dillmont, and the legacy they had on DMC, I created a collection of five wigs. Hair has an important symbolic, and these wigs showcase the force and the memory of these two persons on the survival and success of DMC. By wearing these wigs, the user is wearing the legacy of Anne-Marie Mieg and Thérèse de Dillmont. These photographs were made for DMC in order to use them for advertisment for their brand, to present a contemporary retelling of the history of these women. This project got awarded in the context of the contest AMAZING WASTE, curated by DMC and la HEAR. Check more @ https://www.twine.net/signin costume wigs design queer character fashion branding designer
    uniE621 Viola Cryana
    Through analysing the history of the Viola Cryana and its dissapearence by human intervention, I created a costume that evokes the shape and the movement of this flower. The costume and the movement act as a revival of the flower, animating with petal-like pieces. By this movement, the user embodies the flower. I used cellulose based fibers to structurate the piece, then dyed it with indigo and campeche logwood, as an alchemistic process to revive the extinct flower. Check more @ https://www.twine.net/signin photo choreography costume dance knitwear design naturaldye
    uniE621 What if this is our last ball ? Becoming Peacock
    Top used for the art installation "What if this is our last ball ?", woven top made out of non conforming yarn locally sourced at DMC, portraying the pattern mimicking the feathers of peacocks. Check more @ https://www.twine.net/signin weaving costume design pattern fashion
    uniE621 What if this is our last ball ?
    During the partnership with the manufacturer Hartmann Euro TF, I was commissioned to create a textile pattern inspired by the indiennes, cotton fabrics imported from India that became a hit in Europe during the 17th century. Drawing inspiration from the scenes in toile de Jouy, I decided to create a contemporary interpretaiton with a social message of survival of dance and of Queerness. Employing the codes of toile de Jouy, I reemployed the codes of the Toile de Jouy with LGBTQIA+ iconography, color variations and symbols. Pushing the boundaries of immersiveness, I took my design and created a panoramic wallpaper depicting this dance fever. It also became an installation that acted as a refuge of dance mania, for the liberation of bodies, gender expression. Within this sanctuary, you’ll encounter dancers in mythological costumes. Acting as extensions of the characters in the panoramic, they use garnments crafted with different textile approaches, allowing them to become queer creatures, embodying a new queer mythology. Check more @ https://www.twine.net/signin designer textile dance choreography costume storytelling illustration weaving knitwear tufting