Silver A' Design Award Winner 2023
Mateus Morgan's Key Art Image functions as a sophisticated exercise in material semiotics and the visual communication of value through texture, color, and compositional hierarchy. The elevated positioning of the leather shoe at the composition's apex establishes immediate symbolic primacy, suggesting aspiration, quality, and the culmination of design thinking, while the cascading elements below unfold like a narrative of care and consideration. The chestnut brown leather carries rich cultural associations with craftsmanship traditions, natural materials, and enduring quality, communicating authenticity and timelessness through its warm, organic hue. The exploded arrangement itself serves as visual metaphor for transparency and honesty, inviting the viewer behind the surface to understand the thoughtful engineering that underlies apparent simplicity. The olive green cushioning elements, with their tufted quilted surfaces, evoke comfort, softness, and domestic warmth, while their repetition creates visual rhythm suggesting abundance and generosity. The blue spiral ribbon introduces dynamic movement and contemporary energy, its cool temperature providing symbolic balance to the warm earth tones while gesturing toward innovation and forward motion. The granular gray foam elements, with their mineral-like appearance, bridge natural and technological realms, suggesting that advanced material science serves human comfort. The corrugated pedestal base grounds the floating arrangement in architectural stability, its industrial repetition communicating structural integrity, while the fibrous surface covering introduces organic softness that mediates between manufactured precision and natural warmth. Spherical forms clustered throughout activate archetypal associations with wholeness, completion, and molecular structure, suggesting the fundamental building blocks from which quality emerges. The sage green atmospheric envelope creates a sense of calm contemplation appropriate to considered purchase decisions, while the overall composition achieves visual harmony that communicates design excellence.
The idea was to create an image that brings all the features of the product through visual elements like the cushion and the foam. Thus giving the sensation of softness that the product needed. The inspiration was the common materials of the day to day. The floating elements bring through the soft and round shapes the sensation of softness and lightness. Even though it was a simple representation, the result was thought of something different from the usuall. The biggest challenge was that through a few elements and textures the sensation the product needed.