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Sarah Mafféïs illuminates everyday moments through texture, tone and craft

Creative Boom

It all started with a background in industrial design, a field that nurtured her affinity for shapes, structures and aesthetic balance. Five years ago, Sarah made the move to Luxembourg to work as a furniture designer, all the while nurturing her love for drawing on the side. However, her passion for illustration never waned.

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Meicheng Chi's dreamy pencil drawings help her to connect with her emotions

Creative Boom

This outlook was only honed during her time at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied Industrial Design. I want to remember the feelings and emotions that burst out when I encounter or touch these things," she explains, "or the temperature and texture of certain people in coloured light."

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The TOPOS Outdoor Collection Borrows From Mediterranean Topography

Design Milk

TOPOS takes its name from the Greek word for place; its design elements drawing directly from the region’s geography and topography. Using contoured lines borrowed from maps and industrial design, the collection shares Mediterranean landscapes. Choose from 30 colors and textures to create something entirely your own.

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PJ Riley's first solo show is a portal to a world of emotional intensity

Creative Boom

Inspired by the vibrancy of Matisse and the spontaneity of Jackson Pollock, PJ Riley's paintings also reference the distortions of Picasso and the textured brush marks of van Gogh. Woven together with soulful reflections on the human condition, these sometimes bold, sometimes melancholic paintings span the entire spectrum of emotions.

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Stillmade Debuts the Collaborative Series With Four Artists + Designers

Design Milk

Along the way they’ve consistently provided small, emerging designers access to production that’s generally reserved for big brand names and large manufacturers. Kaplan designed a set of tiles that sit atop Stillmade’s minimal solid wood table base, adding an organic geometry and texture to the base’s clean aesthetic.

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Andrew Ferrier Puts Metal to the (Fuzz) Pedal

Design Milk

Designer Andrew Ferrier spent his youth in Canada dedicated to guitars, bikes, and snowboards – all pursuits that would go onto inform and inspire his work as an industrial designer of human-centered products ranging from lighting , smoking accessories , to a modular seating system – all elegantly simple industrial forms shaped from milled aluminum.

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23 incredible packaging designs to inspire you to enter the Pentawards 2023 today

Creative Boom

Sustainable Design Platinum 2022 winner, RE:INCARNATED SPIRITS by Ruska Martín Associates, Germany 8. Eminente Reserva by Moët Hennessy and Stranger & Stranger With its crocodile-shaped logo and textured glass bottle, this rum was inspired by its native Cuban land that locals call "Isla del cocodrilo" (Island of the crocodile).