Hi, my name is Isabel van de Stadt and I am a visual artist and graphic designer based in Deventer and Arnhem, working across visual communication, photography, and light sculpture. Through a hands-on process, I explore ways of seeing, analog image-making, and light as a material. I am particularly interested in image-capturing and image-displaying technologies, and how their evolution shapes the way we see and experience our surroundings.

I am open to commissions and collaborations across graphic design, photography, and visual art. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

isabelvdstadt@gmail.com
@isabelvandestadt

Made with Love: Slowing Down Fast Fashion
Patchwork t-shirt, 2023

What does it mean to make something with love? Are the clothes I wear made with love? Who made them and under what conditions? These questions led me to compare the production of fast-fashion and slow-fashion.
This patchwork t-shirt is made by hand; a slow process, but voluntarily nonetheless, because I can afford to spend time on making something with love. On the contrary, the discarded fast fashion t-shirts from which this t-shirt is made were produced on a large scale, by people most probably working under bad conditions. The t-shirt serves as a critique on fast-fashion brands and as a plea for slow-fashion and the comeback of craftsmanship.

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