Finn Miro
van Tol
Blue Millionaire
Print patterns
2021
Fictive assignment for more than 5 pattern prints for Vlisco, directly connected to a song of choice, finally the designs have to be presented through a new music video.
In this case the song of choice was 1983 ‘Blue Millionaire’ by Marianne Faithfull, seen as a Metaphor for Marianne’s experiences with cocaine in which she personifies the substance as ‘the Blue Millionaire’.
Mariannes’ lyrics combined with the music creates an impression of the Blue Millionaires’ charisma and aura, an almost omnipresent entity that is always around the corner and leaves a trace of intangible energy in the rooms he was in before.
5 prints, of which 4 repetition patterns, were designed as a visual representation of this Blue Millionaires aura described by the song.
Finally these prints were presented in a music video for the song, where they were incorporated with the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe seemingly set in the Hollywood Hills, the envisioned home of the Blue Millionaire.
Here the prints function as wallpaper, swimming pool tiles, the garden but also in non applied symbolic form.
2021
Fictive assignment for more than 5 pattern prints for Vlisco, directly connected to a song of choice, finally the designs have to be presented through a new music video.
In this case the song of choice was 1983 ‘Blue Millionaire’ by Marianne Faithfull, seen as a Metaphor for Marianne’s experiences with cocaine in which she personifies the substance as ‘the Blue Millionaire’.
Mariannes’ lyrics combined with the music creates an impression of the Blue Millionaires’ charisma and aura, an almost omnipresent entity that is always around the corner and leaves a trace of intangible energy in the rooms he was in before.
5 prints, of which 4 repetition patterns, were designed as a visual representation of this Blue Millionaires aura described by the song.
Finally these prints were presented in a music video for the song, where they were incorporated with the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe seemingly set in the Hollywood Hills, the envisioned home of the Blue Millionaire.
Here the prints function as wallpaper, swimming pool tiles, the garden but also in non applied symbolic form.
