Álvaro Peñalta: Point
ROB ALDERSON
ART DIRECTION, WALLPAPER
The creative process, many people believe, is all about making connections. How and why that happens differs for each individual, but it’s tremendously exciting when a range of things that interest and inspire you suddenly come together to form the seedling of an idea.
Take Álvaro Peñalta. The Barcelona-based art director’s series Point is based, he explains, on the playful illusions of op-art, the forms favoured by the Bauhaus design school, the colour scheme of the Olympic rings and the energy of the avant-garde Triadic ballet.
“I think it came to my mind because the four references have in common simplicity of forms, clear compositions, reduced chromatic range and proportions studied to the millimeter,” he says.