Killip B & Geissinger C (USA) - ‘Fire in My Soul’

This entry reunites two of the team who had great success with their 2020 entry to Design Eye Creative Paper on Skin, winning the Honourable Roger Jaensch MP Runner-Up award with Flower of Life and the Cocoon Designs Public Vote award

Brielle Killip is the designer/engineer of the team, utilising her creative and problem-solving strengths. Brielle has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, School of Art, and a Masters of Business Administration from University of Missouri St. Louis. Christopher Giessinger has a long history of making, design and construction, and is known for his knack of figuring out how anything will fit together. He has a Bachelor of Arts from Anderson University.  

‘Fire in My Soul’ is inspired by the fire that burns within each one of us fuelling our passions and desires. Individual pieces are ‘knit’ together without any visible seams and form an airy, fluid sculpture that forms to the body. Fire in My Soul uses texture and pattern to capture the energy that starts deep in our core and radiates throughout our body.’ 

The team’s goal is to create something that is dramatic, has interesting details, moves naturally with the human body and pushes the boundaries of what is expected out of paper.

Materials: Paper from Mohawk paper mills, fasteners

Brielle and Chris’s award-winning 2020 work