Silver A' Design Award Winner 2024
The symbolic vocabulary of Mateus Morgan's Freeway Loud 3D Product Animation operates within contemporary design semiotics where deconstruction serves as revelation rather than destruction, transforming the hidden architecture of everyday objects into subjects of aesthetic contemplation and intellectual engagement. The exploded view configuration carries rich iconographic resonance within technical and industrial traditions, functioning historically as a means of making transparent what assemblage conceals—here elevated from utilitarian documentation to meditative visualization. The vertical suspension of components against gravitational expectation evokes archetypal themes of transcendence and liberation, with material objects freed from earthly constraints to hover in contemplative space. The chromatic progression from warm earth tones at the base ascending toward cooler grays suggests alchemical transformation or spiritual journey narratives embedded in Western visual culture—the terrestrial rising toward the ethereal. The geometric architectural environment with its intersecting planes and luminous edges references contemporary sacred spaces, the clean minimalism associated with contemplation and focused attention. The honeycomb pattern visible in the outsole carries ancient associations with industriousness, natural engineering perfection, and communal effort—the hexagonal tessellation representing mathematical harmony found throughout nature. The layered revelation of hidden structures speaks to contemporary values of transparency and authenticity, the desire to understand processes typically obscured by finished surfaces. Each floating component becomes a protagonist in a narrative of creation, inviting viewers to appreciate the accumulated human knowledge, material science, and design intention embedded within objects often taken for granted. The work ultimately functions as a meditation on making visible the invisible, celebrating the beauty inherent in thoughtful construction and innovative material application.
We where inspired by the industrial process and the technology involved in all the shoe construction process. As reference we used a lot of company local machines that are used on the shoe construction process. The idea was to give the product a modern aspect by the use of futuristic elements and the industrial machines that brings the shoe to life.