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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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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.”

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Design in Conversation: Stephanie Hosein, Jeff Shaw, Jordan Rice, and Omar Gandhi

Azure Magazine

From Douglas Cardinal’s Canadian Museum of History and Raymond Moriyama’s Science North to John and Patricia Patkau’s Audain Art Gallery, the country’s public galleries and museums claim a leading place in the national design discourse, providing a civic lens through which we understand culture, art, history, and nature.

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8 Standouts from London Design Festival 2023

Azure Magazine

Here, she chronicles several of the city’s top exhibitions. Among the major themes of LDF 2023 was an emphasis on sustainability (expressed through alternative materials and processes); the rise of more collaborative, cross-cultural approaches to design; and a resurgence of craft production techniques like weaving.