Azure Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

Highly regarded for her versatility and hands-on approach, Bargmann received her BFA in sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University before earning her Masters in landscape architecture at Harvard. Social justice projects have been a core focus of Blumberg’s practice.

Architecture

Azure Magazine

JULY 1, 2020

Among its award-winning projects are 2013’s Inuvik Children’s First Centre (a brightly hued education and childcare facility whose arcing shape wraps an outdoor playground in a protective embrace) and 2015’s Betty’s Haven (a handsomely appointed Whitehorse transition home for women and children escaping domestic violence).

Architecture

Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Modern Refinements Recent years have seen minor refinements in shape, fonts and colour tones: 2009 emblem modification returned to silver rings with more flattened depth and sharper corners The 2013 revision introduced minor 3D tweaking to smooth the edges. The 3D hood ornament was inspired by aerodynamic racing cars of that era.

Manufacturing

Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2023

An installation that DesignAgency completed at the 2013 edition of Toronto’s Interior Design Show (IDS) AM Canada was a real design trailblazer in a way. On the other hand, STK (2017) offered a futuristic spectacle in the form of its sinuous floor-to-ceiling sculptures. Splashy international commissions came next. STK Toronto.

Client

Design Milk

MAY 27, 2021

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. The massive suits he creates, and wears as a Black Master in ceremonial battles on Mardi Gras day, are sculptural forms based on his own body. Glass beads. A whole lot of time.

Art

Design Milk

JUNE 22, 2021

“I actually started as a community activist,” Tanya reminisced, “focusing on migrant rights and border issues as part of the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo.” The work Tanya is creating now is mostly focused on using Craft to aid in social justice and migrant rights. Felt Birds.

Arts and Crafts

Colossal

DECEMBER 8, 2020

To create the weathered appearance, she utilizes pit firing, which involves covering the sculpture with hay or leaves and burning them. Hand-painted details adorn the sculpture’s exterior, along with found objects like antique prosthetic eyes, deer antlers, and ball feet. Until then, follow her unearthly projects on Instagram.

Sculpture

Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Since establishing his practice in 2000, the studio — which operates out of Accra, London and New York — has profoundly shaped the architectural landscape with projects that blend “history, art and science” to craft “engaging environments that balance contrasting themes and inspire us all,” according to RIBA president Alan Jones.

Architecture

Colossal

AUGUST 7, 2023

“But to pick up a knife every morning and butter your bread is an experience, made even more lovely when that butter knife was hand-forged by a blacksmith who spent decades refining their craft, whose story you know, whose face you’ve seen. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

Arts and Crafts

Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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.

Architecture

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. the relationship between viewers, objects, and negative space?—and

Sculpture

Colossal

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

“The Hair Craft Project: Hairstyles on Canvas” (2014), silk threads, beads, shells, and yarn on canvas, nine at 29 × 29 inches and two at 33 × 33 inches. Titled We Are Each Other , the exhibition encompasses 25 years of the artist’s participatory works that highlight the inextricable links between craft and community.

Arts and Crafts

Colossal

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Felt especially is very interesting for making sculptures because it allows to make forms without sewing, without suture, like the organs of the human body,” she writes. Particularly interesting are her felt sculptures that take on the form of teeth, lower limbs, bones, and other peculiar organic forms.

Sculpture

Design Milk

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Similar to the allure of raw denim, the customization and craft is in the actual use of the product, allowing the finish to speak for itself. ” Founded in 2013 by Sophie Pearce, Béton Brut has quickly become a magnet for the best design from Europe and Japan. The arc of the seat is expressive, wide and inviting.

Presentation

Azure Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2025

2013 Hygge House Had Us at Hello It’s amazing what a can (or several gallons) of acid yellow paint can do. The materials are all recycled and their assembly was driven by craft and intuition a truly wonderful result that won the Social Good category. And in 2016, Castor brought Liberace x Flavin to the celebration.

Architecture

Creative Boom

MAY 20, 2025

Rising from Charterhouse Square, the 12-tonne brick and steel sculpture is playful but grounded, quite literally. Chinneck, who became known for his 2013 'sliding house' in Margate, returns here to familiar material language but adds new layers of accessibility and interactivity.

Sculpture