GSGZ - God Save Gen Z

IED Milan Project - Jewelry Design

Academic year

2021/2022

The research stems from a reflection on the parallelism between the words used in the graffiti movement and the language of Gen Z, characterized by cryptic abbreviations of web language.

Vittoria Corvetti, a student, realized the jewelry collection using new 3D printing’s technologies, based on an alphabet that was created by her.

Each jewel, through acronyms inspired by contemporary "hashtags", expresses the problems, peculiarities and everyday life of its generation, divided between the virtual and the real world and filled with images and information, fluid and eager for change.