Artist Creates Alien-Inspired GIFs (And Leggings)

As a young child, Amrei Hofstätter always wanted to be an explorer, diving through deep sea caverns or traveling to the farthest star systems. That sense of wonder and mystery is the soul of this Berlin-based graphic designer's surreal illustrations and GIFs.

Hofstätter has been publishing this fractal-inspired vector art since 2009, when she began creating almost mannequin-like figures in her distinctive polygonal style. She has also collaborated with Indian fashion designer Manish Arora and electronic music group Julien-K to bring her unique, sci-fi aesthetic to other artistic disciplines.

In an interview with Sir Magazine, Hofstätter describes her work as, "Poison and antidote in the same drop…Science Fiction Obsessive Compulsion. Video games with psychoanalytical boss levels…Beautiful trauma induces self-destruction and sad transformations. Absurd, abstract machines on the brink of disintegration."

Immediately upon seeing her work, these somewhat-abstract phrases make perfect sense. The contrast between structure and chaos in each of her designs is perplexing, but essential to the emotions they convey. Later in the interview she says much of her work is "about dolls and how these non-or almost-creatures try to exist in an environment that is theirs but that may have turned against them after an unknown catastrophic incident."

Now Hofstätter is crafting these intricate, surreal sci-fi landscapes—for your body. Her new line of leggings take her unique, fractal-based style to something wearable (that would definitely demand some stares in public).

 
Check out her leggings at the Front Row Society, or just get lost in the endless maze of her designs by checking out her website.