Es Devlin and Yinka llori reveal pair of Brit Awards trophies
Designers Es Devlin and Yinka llori have created a pair of trophies for this year's Brit Awards that are designed to be gifted on to someone else.
This year, music artists who win a Brit Award will receive two statuettes ? one designed by Ilori and one by Devlin.
The winning artists will be encouraged to keep one trophy and gift the other to someone "worthy".
Winners will receive two Brit Awards trophies, one to keep and one to gift
"Yinka and I thought that the best award that one could receive would be agency to award another," said Devlin.
"Each recipient is invited to award the second trophy to someone they consider worthy ? it might be recognition or it might be someone that does something entirely unrelated to music." Es Devlin's trophy is engraved with a maze-like pattern
According to Ilori, the concept for the trophies was born from random acts of kindness, which the pair witnessed during last year's coronavirus lockdown.
"The idea came from the experience of lockdown, where your neighbour you've lived beside for six years and never say hello to suddenly gave you flowers, foods, acts of kindness," he explained.
"I wanted to capture that. I would describe it as two artists from different disciplines, different inspirations, coming together to design a trophy based around the idea of giving something back."
Yinka Ilori's statue is "an explosion of colour"
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