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The Alternative Limb Project by Sophie de Oliveira Barata is where art meets science

Creative Boom

Artist and sculptor Sophie de Oliveira Barata has combined art, technology and science to create artificial limbs, which are wearable art pieces for performance and exhibition. Barata collaborates with many other skilled workers in cutting edge technology and traditional craft to realise the projects. Photo by R.

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Big Chief Demond Melancon Is Rewriting the Definition of Contemporary Art Through Beads

Design Milk

These are the tools and materials New Orleans-based artist Demond Melancon uses to create his Black Masking suits and his contemporary art portraiture series. I like to listen to podcasts and art interviews, or I’m listening to my reggae music. I branched out to show them that beading can be contemporary art, can be fine art.

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Meet the Jury of the 2023 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

His gamble paid off and in 2007, he opened his eponymous studio , where he envisions an impressive array of product and furniture design, as well as art direction and interior architecture, for such international manufacturers such as Ligne Roset, Bonaldo, Buzzispace, Varaschin, Casamania, La Chance and Another Country. JERRY VAN EYCK !melk’s

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5 Stunning Summer Pavilions Elevating the Outdoors

Azure Magazine

As part of the central exhibition of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, curator Hashim Sarkis dedicated a portion of his sprawling showcase — titled “How Will We Live Together?” New York-based Bryony Roberts is no stranger to crafting colourful and captivating pavilions. OFF FENCE by SKULL Studio and MOLO Architekti.

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15 Instagram Influencers In The Design Field You Should Follow

Graphic Design Junction

His art has populated city walls and floors, shoes, buildings, books, jackets, clothing, and galleries worldwide. Other personal projects of his include, Twelve Kinds of Kindness, People of Craft, Friends with Secrets, and Build Kindness Not Walls. Mike Perry’s Instagram feed is an oasis of color, animation, and hand-crafts.

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Fashion illustrator Gladys Perint Palmer: “How many ways can one draw a blazer?”

Design Week

Now her work is being shown at GrayMCA’s Drawing on Style illustration exhibition in Cromwell Place. The two had a working relationship starting in 1989 and continuing until Piaggi’s death in 2012. ” As for magazines, she says the best are those with good art directors. Palmer’s early career.

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Gus Casely-Hayford appointed director of V&A East

Design Week

Casely-Hayford is currently director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. Casely-Hayford says he feels “enormously privileged” to become part of the V&A: “It has long been the arts institution that I have looked to for innovation and inspiration.”