Name: 創意總監不拘一格的公寓內景 | The Stuff That Surrounds | Wallpaper* (Inside a creative director's eclectic apartment | The Stuff That Surrounds | Wallpaper*)
Uploaded: 2025-10-20T03:58:28.000Z
Duration: 10 min 5 s

程度副詞

When I purchase or acquire something, I really do it with the idea in mind to keep it for either forever or for a very long time.

我買東西或收到東西的時候，我真的會想著要永久保存，或是保存非常久。

But of course, you know, your taste also evolves and changes a bit.

但當然啦，你知道，你的品味也會演變和有點改變。

情態副詞

But it's something sort of that needs to spark something that I really want to live with.

但它需要能激發出我真心想擁有的東西。

I'm Veronica Ditting, I'm a creative director.

我是 Veronica Ditting，我是創意總監。

I work in graphic design and art direction.

Strangely enough, graphic design and art direction, it's closely linked to each other.

說來奇怪，平面設計和藝術指導，其實是緊密相連的。

But a lot of people who are more in graphic design don't even understand exactly what art direction is and vice versa.

但很多做平面設計的人，甚至不完全瞭解藝術指導是什麼，反之亦然。

It's really about communication and how something sits and sings on a page, how a reader might look at it, how the typography make the word more specific, how even the word with the exact chosen typeface changes the whole meaning of it.

它其實是關於溝通，以及某樣東西在頁面上如何呈現和發聲，讀者可能會如何看待它，字體排印學如何讓文字更具體，甚至連選定的字體如何改變整個意義。

It's really important to me to be quite physical with the things that I work.

對我來說，我工作中的事物能夠有實體感，這點非常重要。

So sort of the tactility and object like quality of everything I create.

所以，我創作的每樣東西都帶有觸感和物件般的特質。

I'm based here in London and the barbican, thinking about interior design, I would say it's quite eclectic.

我住在倫敦的巴比肯中心，談到室內設計，我會說它相當折衷。

There's a really beautiful Pirelli rubber floor throughout the whole flat in a green.

整個公寓鋪設了非常美麗的綠色 Pirelli 橡膠地板。

The first time that you come to the flat, it's quite intimidating in a way because it's quite intense.

你第一次來到公寓時，會覺得有點令人畏懼，因為它相當強烈。

But actually it works very well with a lot of the things that I had.

但實際上，它和我擁有的許多東西搭配得很好。

I really like the contrast to the very gray barbican and the brutalist environment we're in.

我真的很喜歡與灰暗的巴比肯和我們身處的野獸派環境形成對比。

Maybe I never really think about the whole space, but

也許我從來沒有真正考慮過整個空間，但

it's more about sort of particular pieces which in some strange ways works together.

更多的是關於特定的物件，這些物件以某種奇怪的方式協調在一起。

I was very lucky that there was a lot of shelf systems.

This is a funny book I found in Milan as well.

這也是我在米蘭找到的一本有趣的書。

If I'm not mistaken, it's self published, called Vera.

如果我沒記錯的話，它是自出版的，叫做 Vera。

I mean, what it was made for, I'm not quite sure, but

我的意思是，它到底是為了什麼而做的，我不太確定，但是

I just really like the object quality to it.

而且以某種方式來說也很奇怪。

我想在某種程度上，也許是關於物件。

What of course comes to mind is sort of tactility, how you hold things in your hand.

當然會想到的是觸感，你手上拿著東西的感覺。

It's not about sort of a refined and finished object in a way.

它在某種程度上並不是關於一個精緻且完成的物件。

I like things that are quite imperfect in the sense that you see how they were made.

我喜歡那些有點不完美的東西，因為你可以看出它們是如何被製作出來的。

These are vases made by a French ceramicist called Juliette Test.

這些是法國陶瓷藝術家 Juliette Test 製作的花瓶。

And I really love the color of the glaze.

It's so particular I have quite a few things from my grandparents that I really cherish.

它非常特別，我有很多祖父母留下的東西，我都很珍惜。

But I love this blanket that my grandmother embroidered.

但我喜歡我奶奶刺繡的這條毯子。

She had it so you can really see sort of her love for animals.

她把它做成這樣，你真的可以看出她對動物的愛。

And I just like how much it really says about her personality, in a way.

我就是喜歡它在某種程度上能這麼多地展現她的個性。

Yeah, there's just a lot of humor in it, which I think is so sweet.

是的，裡面有很多幽默感，我覺得這很可愛。

Growing up, my parents were definitely always very sort of mindful of how to take care of your things.

我從小到大，我爸媽都非常注意要怎麼好好保管東西。

Especially with my home, I'm very sort of mindful of caring for the.

特別是在家裡，我非常注重保養我擁有的。

Often times I would say that I group things by material.

我通常會按照材質來分類東西。

So we have different silverware postcards from my show in Japan.

所以我們有來自日本展覽的不同銀器明信片。

And then talking about very sort of tactile things.

This is something that a lot of people come to my place.

But it's just something very sort of satisfying in your hand.

This is Max from Jochen Holt's glass spoon.

這是 Jochen Holt 的玻璃湯匙 Max。

And it looks like it's a thumb imprint that really shaped the material, this space.

感覺就像是拇指印塑造了這個空間裡的材質。

I quite like it that it's not really defined.

You know, I call it as a joke, the meditation room.

I really love castiglione lamps because they always have quite a.

我很喜歡 Castiglione 的燈，因為它們總是很有。

You know, there's a utilitarian factor to it.

So this is a printing plate by Piero Fornacetti, original zinc printing plate.

這是一塊 Piero Fornacetti 的印刷版，原始的鋅製印刷版。

You know, they have a very sort of particular sense of humor and tweak to them.

你知道，它們總是有種很特別的幽默感和趣味。

而且這個工作室其實還在運作。

So I think, if I'm not mistaken, it's in the third or fourth generation, and

所以我想，如果我沒記錯的話，已經傳到第三或第四代了，

I spent quite a bit of time looking at printed matter, if that might be, you know, vintage publications, how they are printed, how they're edited, how they're bound.

我花了很多時間研究印刷品，像是老舊的出版品，它們是如何印刷、編輯、裝訂的。

I started collecting the art publication the Rear Le Miroir a few years ago.

幾年前我開始收藏藝術出版品 Le Miroir。

You can really see how the color is actually so intensely printed.

你可以真的看到它的顏色印刷得有多麼飽和。

You know, in offset printing, that's not something that you would easily achieve with my own work.

你知道，在平版印刷中，這是我自己的作品不容易達到的。

Thinking about also printed matter as an object is something that I find really stimulating because it really makes you query the printed matter in a different way.

思考印刷品作為一個物件，這件事我覺得很有啟發性，因為它讓你用不同的方式去探究印刷品。

Working with Hermes, I've been lucky enough to work with them over 10 years now, I believe.

我很幸運能和 Hermes 合作，到現在已經超過十年了。

So this is the invitation I've done for the first launch of Hermes Beauty, which was about the lipsticks in 2020 when working on the invitation, I thought what could be really fun is to actually work with three times the size of the lipstick packages.

這是我為 2020 年 Hermes Beauty 的首次發表設計的邀請函，當時發表的是脣膏，在設計邀請函時，我想如果能把脣膏包裝放大三倍，那會很有趣。

So here, you know, it becomes a miniature book.

所以在這裡，它變成了一本迷你書。

And I think there's such an interesting aspect of how they used the.

我覺得他們運用色彩的方式非常有趣。

Their color in their design and how it really translates through the whole maison.

他們的色彩在設計中，以及它如何貫穿整個品牌。

It's from different projects I might have worked on.

是我可能參與過的，不同專案的。

You know, what is of course so special about the packaging is the actual color and intensity of it and the whole fact that it's that registration printing, which is very sort of precisely aligned on the.

當然，包裝最特別的地方就是它的顏色和飽和度，以及它是精確對齊的製版印刷。

So it's maybe a little bit cliche to have this, but.

所以這樣做可能有點老套，但。

I'm about five to ten minutes walk away from my office space, which is on the other side of the Barbican.

我離我的辦公室大約走五到十分鐘，就在巴比肯的另一邊。

I actually don't really like to look back at my own work.

我其實不太喜歡回顧自己的作品。

Last year I had a show at DDD Gallery in.

And that was actually the first time that I looked back at 20 years of my work.

那其實是我第一次回顧我 20 年的作品。

And I found it quite confronting because the show was really focused on graphic design.

我發現這很有挑戰性，因為那個展覽非常著重在平面設計。

And the problem with a lot of shows, I guess for graphic design is that, you know, a lot of the material is flat.

我猜平面設計展覽的問題是，你知道，很多材料都是平面的。

Came up with the idea to basically make everything that's two dimensional, to show it in a three dimensional way.

想出一個點子，基本上就是把所有二維的東西，用三維的方式呈現出來。

I was always really drawn to photography when I grew up.

My grandma actually mentioned to me that when I was about 2 years old I would come to their house in the weekends and she had to have a box of photographs for me.

我奶奶其實跟我說過，我大概兩歲的時候，週末會去他們家，她得準備一盒照片給我。

It was kind of my demand to always look at pictures.

I worked at the magazine since its foundation for 12 years.

我在雜誌創刊時就加入，待了12年。

And when we had the 10 year anniversary, we came up with the idea of the miniature magazine which shows all of the COVID profiles.

到了10週年紀念時，我們想出了迷你雜誌的主意，裡面展示了所有COVID的個人資料。

So this is the publication I mentioned called Andy, which I made for the Steedelijk Museum.

這就是我提到的《Andy》這本刊物，是我為Steedelijk Museum製作的。

So this is the COVID image by Oliviero Toscani showing Andy Warhol as a model.

這張是Oliviero Toscani拍的COVID照片，展示了Andy Warhol當模特兒的樣子。

Him with his sausage dog, which I obviously love.

他和他那隻臘腸狗，我當然很喜歡。

And I think in a way the COVID makes it so clear that it's about him as a person instead of him as an artist.

我覺得某種程度上，COVID讓一切變得非常清楚，這是在談論他這個人，而不是他這個藝術家。

The Barbican is a really dynamic place for culture.

Barbican 是個非常有活力的文化場所。

It's a bit like stepping into architectural drawing.

The idea of that utopian living partly works, you know, it definitely comes more to life when it's warm.

那種烏託邦式生活的想法，有部分是可行的，你知道，天氣暖和時它確實更能實現。