Textile designer Ýrúrarí, who is nominated for this year's Icelandic Design Award, gives new life to worn-out clothes by adding playful knitted details such as eyes, tongues and fingers.
The Icelandic designer, whose real name is Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, likes to give character to sweaters and other garments which are old or broken and would otherwise have been thrown away.
This often involves adding cartoon-style facial features and other body parts, although she sometimes includes food references or pattern details.
"I give them a strong character to make them more memorable," she told Dezeen.
Ýrúrarí's designs often involve facial features or other body parts
Ýrúrarí is nominated for the Icelandic Design Award 2020 with her latest series of designs, Sweater Sauce, which she presented at the 2020 edition of Reykjavík design festival DesignMarch. The project saw her transform clothing items that had been donated to the Red Cross, many of which were covered in stains.
This became the inspiration for the designs ? Ýrúrarí imagined they had been soiled by Iceland's popular fast food, the hotdog.
The Sweater Sauce series was inspired by hotdogs
"I just thought, it must be people eating hotdogs and then, maybe because of the wind, they spill sauce over themselves and ruin their sweaters," explained the designer.
"That's where the theme for the project came from," she said, "so there are some hotdog thoughts in all of the pieces."...