Design Milk

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sweden, as evidenced by this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair , has contemporized their craft by applying technical advancements to traditional form making using organic materials without losing the warmth or whimsy that their Nordic neighbors forego in the pursuit of forward-thinking practices.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 4, 2023

And while the results of these NLP tools range from the useful to the trivial, they still feel like something of a dark art with little useful connection to people's daily needs. Our cells became detailed, sculptural balloons. Our Voronoi plains became textured pebble structures. That's where Cohere comes in.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

From 1919 to 1933, the Bauhaus united fine arts and crafts to create practical yet beautiful designs for the machine age. He aimed to start a new movement in the visual arts that rejected the excessive historicism and ornamentation that defined late 19th-century design in favour of a modern , industrial aesthetic.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Stocking Fillers Grumpy Ant plush toy by Aysha Tengiz If you have a friend who makes (or just appreciates) good art, check out the online shop of Aysha Tengiz, a London-based artist working within illustration, animation and textile design. It's packed with great products such as this plushie with a difference.

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Design Milk

MAY 8, 2024

After resting a bit from our whirlwind visit to Milan Design Week 2024 , we’ve picked 11 of our favorite designers to watch, installations that made us think, and pieces we’d love to own from the hundreds of exhibitions, installations, pop-ups, and galleries spread across the city.

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Colossal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Photos by Red Photography, © Yukihiro Akama, courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, shared with permission In Huddersfield, England, a half hour’s drive down the road from Yorkshire Sculpture Park , artist Yukihiro Akama fashions a whimsical, miniature world from within a furniture maker’s workshop. Work in progress.

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Colossal

APRIL 28, 2023

Sexton enjoys papier-mâché for its versatility and accessibility, using additional readily available materials like cloth, wire, and acrylic paint to build up each animal’s unique textures, patterns, and colors. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Design Milk

MAY 27, 2024

Available in four silhouettes, the vessels emulate a surprising visual warmth through texture and color, and can be utilized as seating, tables, and planters. The brilliant Parchment Side Tables by Art Resources mark a significant moment in time for accessibility to historical styles like Thai Art Deco.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kiki Van Eijk and Joost Van Bleiswijk, otherwise known as Kiki and Joost , opened up their workshop during Dutch Design Week 2023 for an exhibition entitled Perpetuum Mobile , Latin for “perpetual motion.” “Each cushion tells a unique story, a fusion of diverse textiles that harmonize into a visual and tactile object.”

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We’ve published dozens of articles on artist monographs and compendiums of broader topics across art and design and science and history over the last 12 months, and these are the 10 titles that impacted us most. Prime, Art’s Next Generation. Art and Climate Change. Ocean, Exploring the Marine World.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Today, the metropolis is also an anchor for diverse creative scenes, ranging from architecture and urban design to abstract art and artisanal crafts. Originally staged during Milan Design Week, this thematic group exhibition was presented at Prague Castle’s Ballroom and will continue to The Moravian Gallery in Brno later this fall.

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Vine-like colorful coils of material overlap in Claire Lindner ’s latest sculpture collection, which blurs the line between organic and human-made forms. ” She creates tensions between aesthetics and textures, including soft and hard, light and heavy, and attractive and repulsive.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

” Their exhibition for Dutch Design Week 2023 was entitled Regeneration: Fashion From The Ground Up and explored what regeneration looks like in the fashion context through three lenses: Earth Care , People Care , and Fair Share. The longer the wearing time, the richer the texture will be.”

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The exhibition showcased innovative biomaterials, circular products, and collectible design pieces. “Using digital fabrication techniques, particularly 3D modeling and computer numerical control (‘CNC’) milling, I create plaster molds derived from these landscapes allowing me to transfer these detailed textures into the clay body.”

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Compared to the energetic buzz of Tokyo, the city of Kyoto still operates at a satisfyingly measured hum, retaining much more than a veneer of the country’s deep seated traditions, crafts, and history. The family uses this section of the home to stage traditional tea ceremonies and accommodate for overnight guests.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

Here are the top picks in this category: Art and Design Books From modern to contemporary works, art books give designers eye candy to admire and draw ideas from. Some examples: Taschen’s The Art Book : A visual dictionary covering 500 influential artists and their most famous pieces from medieval times to today. $14.49

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Colossal

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The sweet and the sinister commingle in Rebecca Stevenson ‘s wax sculptures that depict humans and animals bursting open to reveal flowers and fruits. To create her sculptures, Stevenson starts by modeling the animal or figure in clay, and then moulds and casts the model with layered resin and wax. Photographs: Marianne Wie.

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Colossal

MAY 5, 2022

They are nearly life-size, and the range of woven and stitched textures are captivatingly tactile. Some of Shin’s work can be seen at the Victoria Craft Awards 2021 exhibition through May 21. She has limited-edition prints from the series for sale on her website , and you can also follow her on Instagram. Image © Ema Shin.

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Colossal

MARCH 27, 2023

All images © Janny Baek, shared with permission “I’ve always been drawn to art in different ways, but sculpting clay by hand seems to come most naturally to me. Asymmetrical and bulbous, her otherworldly sculptures are redolent of boulders, cacti, coral, or micro-organisms.

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Design Milk

JUNE 9, 2023

Peters’ multi-disciplinary approach integrates technology as a means to an end, rather than an end itself, an ethos in full display across these ceramic sculptures. ” Each sculpture of the Dyadic Series is digitally crafted using a customized 3D printer, a machine Peters hacked to produce the convincing textured design.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 24, 2024

Post-War Graphic Design After WWII, Japan rebuilt while embracing traditional art and international modernism in graphic design. They balanced clean, grid-based layouts from the International Typographic Style with handmade brush strokes, fabrics, origami textures, and calligraphy.

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Colossal

JULY 28, 2023

Most recently, the artist has focused on samples found in the Scottish Borders for an upcoming exhibition, which she says is “the result of a year’s worth of work, and includes even more intricacy than previously made embroideries…It is a snapshot in time but includes a huge amount of variety in colour, texture, and new forms.”

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Colossal

MARCH 10, 2023

All images © Claire Lindner, shared with permission Although fixed in glazed and fired ceramic, Claire Lindner ’s voluptuous sculptures are primed for movement as they appear to crawl along walls or sprout upward like the leaves of a plant. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Colossal

JULY 11, 2022

The heavily patterned works, which have shifted from functional to decorative, are made by hand-knotting wool and layering the yarn into lush, textured motifs. Huotari begins every work with a color palette and surface, whether in the form of a wall-based piece or a freestanding sculpture.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Japanese artist En Iwamura creates large ceramic sculptures of heads with minimalist facial features. Born in Kyoto to artist parents, Iwamura studied at Kanazawa College of Craft and Art where he earned MFA and BFA in Crafts/Ceramics. All images © En Iwamura.

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Design Milk

MAY 10, 2024

In this series, several textural black yakisugi cedar planes are oriented, mounted, and then accented by a singular sculptural clear-coated cedar element that appears to traverse each surface by sticking to, slithering across, or slouching on it.

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Design Milk

APRIL 1, 2022

A long list of contract, residential, exhibition, spatial, and architectural projects follows. It can be a new restaurant, a shop, gallery, graffiti on the street, or just textures and surfaces I discover along the way. For years growing up I was drawn to art, design, architecture, and craft. The Bauhaus.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 20, 2022

We walked the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) and WantedDesign Manhattan from end to end, stopped into dozens of showrooms in SoHo and Tribeca and saw everything from a shade made out of eggshells to a hug machine designed by a group of students from New York’s School of Visual Arts. It’s set to launch in 2023.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 4, 2021

From swirls of eucalyptus leaves to perfectly round bodies of coral, the sculptural pieces by Newcastle-based artist Meredith Woolnough ( previously ) depict a range of textured, organic shapes. Some of her smaller works will be included in a group exhibition at The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney , which opens online on October 16.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Throughout her career, Ju’s work has swing between scales and creative disciplines, borrowing from sculpture and architecture to create unique brand experiences that are functional and visually enticing. Art/Photo: Miki Kim 1. Art by Miki Kim She’s a South Korean tattoo artist and illustrator, and I love her trippy and surreal style.

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Colossal

MAY 16, 2023

All images © Oliver Chalk, shared with permission Hewn from solid hunks of found timber, Oliver Chalk ’s vessels ( previously ) embrace the natural grain and gradients of different types of wood to reveal voluminous functional sculptures. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Colossal

MAY 12, 2022

More than 40,000 of the oceanic works are now on view at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, transforming the gallery into textured ecosystems resting atop pillars and protected in glass cases. and will be on view at the Museum Frieder Burda until June 26. Photo courtesy of LUAG by Stephanie Veto.

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

All images © Anastassia Zamaraeva, shared with permission For London-based artist and art therapist Anastassia Zamaraeva , ideating and working with her hands is as important as the finished pieces. ” Zamaraeva will have work included in the group exhibition Festoon at Underbank Studios in Stockport, England, which opens in April.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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.

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Colossal

JUNE 5, 2023

Titled a resilience of things not seen , the exhibition referenced the Book of Revelation , the apocalyptic Christian text that Zapata encountered frequently as a child in an Evangelical home. ” “A resilience of things not seen” (2022), installation at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

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Design Milk

APRIL 5, 2022

With a background in lighting design consultancy, Jamie Norris Green is an award-winning designer who makes contemporary lighting, art, and furniture. Both had studied art at university and were keen painters and illustrators. The digital 3D design uses iterative algorithms which make each piece subtly unique in form and texture.

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Azure Magazine

JULY 1, 2020

In addition to these storied vessels, which range vastly in scale, he also relays more personal experiences in his sculptural works. The dark tone and texture of the façade is upended upon entry: the interiors, gleaming white, make this laneway house feel dreamy and expansive. Oxbow Architecture, Saskatchewan.

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