Design You Trust

APRIL 29, 2022

“When I recreate an animal, I want to recreate a feeling,” says Canadian artist Laurence Vallières. Her recycled cardboard sculptures express human emotion in animal form, exploring relationships, communication and political issues through innovative use of materials and with a hearty dose of humour.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The online art market boomed during the pandemic, and there’s no sign of it slowing down anytime soon. As people adjust to spending more of the workday at home, the need for art and access to an art collection becomes more apparent. That’s where online art buying comes in. All images by Artsper.

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Design Week

AUGUST 4, 2020

The Royal Mint advisory committee – a panel which includes art and design historians – firstly decides “what is most relevant to be represented” on a British coin. The most recent redesign was in 2015, by in-house designer Jody Clark. How does the team work?

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

“There are many ways to tell a story or to document and share research and discoveries,” says artist Ellie Hannon, one of 54 artists who has embarked on a unique residency organized by the Schmidt Ocean Institute ( previously ). ” He is thrilled by the apprehension of so much more.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Over the past two decades, preeminent gallery fair Design Miami has led the charge as a vital platform for the ever-evolving collectible design industry, one forged out of the vintage furniture sector and to complement the fine art market.

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Gallery Arts and Crafts Presentation Exhibition 201

Colossal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

All images © DelMonico Books, shared with permission “Historically, books about contemporary Native and Indigenous art have often been composed of academic essays illustrated with artworks by Indigenous makers,” Jeffrey Gibson ( previously ) says in the introduction to An Indigenous Present. Find your copy on Bookshop.

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Colossal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Beginning with a copper armature, the North Carolina-based artist stretches vintage paper or patterns of scanned objects across a minimal metal form and stitches the edges together into a geometric patchwork. via Women’s Art ). “Jackrabbit” (2015), pigment print on paper, copper rod, 27 1/2 x 26 x 9 inches.

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Patterns Animation Print Artist 93

Creative Boom

MAY 18, 2023

The LA-based artist conjures magical worlds and invites us to explore them together "like a shared dream". In this exhibition, my work veers into territory that could be considered Visionary art and a number of the paintings incorporate archetypes from the tarot. Creating this was an incredibly interesting journey for me," he recalls.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ceramic sculptures by Butaoxi Kao of First of May Studio build upon this history and express emotions and connection through strings of pearls. Examining how emotions connect us to one another and to our past, the artist uses pearls in various shapes and sizes, which leak from eyes or link to other figures.

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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).

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Architecture Arts and Crafts Portfolio Artist 137

UX Collective

JUNE 19, 2023

The world may have never heard of the Dimensionism movement if no one had taken notice of his unpublished copy, which attracted the biggest names of 20th-century art, such as Joan Miro, Hans Arp, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Alexander Calder, and Bauhaus designer László Moholy-Nagy.

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Colossal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A collaboration between La Caixa Foundation and the British Museum , Revered and Feared: Feminine Power in Art and Belief considers how spirituality has informed notions of gender since time immemorial. via artnet ) Zanele Muholi, “Somnyama IV” Oslo (2015). “They personify desire and passion, chaos and harmony.

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Feature Shoot

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Camera creations by Brendan Barry , courtesy the artist. “For the past 28 years, I have been exploring the photographic and sculptural possibilities of homemade cameras,” the artist Heather Oelklaus tells us. How delightful that this art form can facilitate such a remarkable union!

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Arts and Crafts Photography Print Artist 93

Design Milk

JUNE 13, 2023

“My paintings teeter on the edge of sculpture and my sculptures are mostly painted,” said Czechoslovakian contemporary artist Jan Kaláb. His view on the evolution of his own art, from what began as lettered graffiti, is interesting and a real story of following what’s possible.

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Art Sculpture Gallery Artist 307

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Courtesy of the artist. An imaginative new art show points to how the horror genre influences rebellious artists and helps us to understand a chaotic world. In this way, the last five decades of British history are recast as a story of cultural shapeshifting, told through some of our most provocative artists.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Each December, the city’s infrastructure is pushed to its breaking point by Miami Art Week. The festival is anchored by Art Basel (an art world extravaganza perfectly encapsulated by this year’s Goya , a four-metre tall tornado sculpture by Alice Aycock), but it also encompasses dozens of other art and design fairs.

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Feature Shoot

JANUARY 2, 2020

Deity I, 2015. So much of Black history around the continent and across the diaspora has been whitewashed or erased, much like the noses hacked off the faces of Egyptian sculptures to destroy evidence Black power and leadership — but as Malcolm X wisely observed, “Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”

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Design You Trust

JUNE 26, 2021

Sasha Katz is an artist born and raised in Moscow, Russia. She graduated from the British Higher School of Art & Design in Major –Illustration. Today Sasha Katz is formerly employed as editorial designer by Afisha Mir magazine and works as a freelance illustrator and GIF artist. More: Instagram , Twitter.

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Digital Sculpture Exhibition Freelance 68

Design Week

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This project from Icelandic designer Siggi Odds is a lovely example of high concept album art, meticulously designed and created. This inspired a “garden of sculptures”, which itself centred around a baby wolf carved out of basalt by sculptor Matthías Rúnar Sigurðsson. Non-event posters, by Lydia Leith.

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Inspiration Arts and Crafts Print Sculpture 94

Design Milk

JUNE 7, 2021

It was late July in 2015 when news emerged ceramicist Ben Medansky’s world had literally gone up in flames. The charred remnants of Ben Medansky’s Downtown Los Angeles studio in 2015. “To The remnants of his studio were practically still smoldering when the organization reached out to the artist directly.

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Colossal

AUGUST 18, 2020

Artist Wang Ruilin ( previously ) visualizes nature’s interconnectivity by literally imprinting a rocky terrain or ice cap onto the bodies of wild animals. His recent copper-and-paint sculptures include a panda with a black back stripe and limbs that are covered in a mountainous ridge and a white blanket of clouds.

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Sculpture Animation Artist Art 101

Design Milk

MAY 13, 2022

Jean currently teaches at her alma mater, Parsons School of Design, and has served as a guest lecturer and critic at Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Tama Art University in Tokyo. I visited the monumental art museum Glenstone a couple years ago and could not get over how beautiful and moving the experience was.

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Helen Violet, a hyperrealism artist from Canada, creates astonishingly lifelike pet sculptures and pencil drawings that capture the essence of each animal with breathtaking accuracy. Her intricate handmade sculptures look so real that you’d have to look twice to be sure it’s not a living pet.

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Sculpture Artist Animation Art 81

Colossal

JULY 8, 2024

Uppal Bhupa Village, Jalandhar District, Punjab, 2015. Image courtesy of the artist and PHOTOINK Visit the rural villages of Doaba, in India’s Punjab state, and you’ll likely encounter enormous sculptures of airplanes, tanks, and soccer players perched atop homes. Daulatpur Village, Nawanshahr District, Punjab, 2015.

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Sculpture Architecture Artist Publishing 96

Design Milk

MAY 14, 2021

First released in 2015, the piece has been created in both white Carrara and Nero Marquina marble editions. All works made of metal are, on the other, hand made in Germany in a state of the art production facility that also makes works for Jeff Koons. It’s an installation from United Visual Artists. Mornings With my Dog.

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Colossal

AUGUST 7, 2024

All images © Tomohiro Inaba, shared with permission In Tomohiro Inaba ’s intimate metal sculptures, majestic animals and gentle humans are the stuff of dreams and fairytales. Find more on the artist’s website and Instagram. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Colossal

JANUARY 12, 2024

All images © Maskull Lasserre, shared with permission Behind the hammers and pins of most upright pianos is a hard mass of spruce, maple, or mahogany, what artist Maskull Lasserre ( previously ) refers to as a “secret volume of solid wood.” Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Colossal

MAY 8, 2024

It’s also an apt title for a poetic exhibition of sculptures blending beastly and botanical forms by the late Claude (1925-2019) and François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008). Having worked as a guard in the Egyptian and Assyrian galleries of the Louvre, the artist often referenced ancient mythology and hybridity in his figures.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“I have always viewed the body as a transitory object,” writes artist Christina Bothwell. The artist’s subject matter is rooted in the ethereal and embodies the delicate ways spirits and physical figures change over time. “Mother and Child” (2020), cast glass, ceramic, and oil paints, 18 x 27 x 7 inches.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Since establishing her eponymous studio with engineer Philip Watkins in 2015, Li’s creative output has consistently upended traditional lighting design. For the Pilar lighting series collaboration both Fiore and Li were informed by the “quiet strength” of the Endless Column by Romanian sculptor and artist Constantin Brâncusi.

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Sculpture Arts and Crafts Artist Textures 98

Colossal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Sol Calero, “La Escuela del Sur (The School of the South)” (2015), mixed media, installation view. Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now , forthcoming from Phaidon, spans 352 pages of contemporary and historic paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, performances, and more. Photo by Andy Keate.

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Artist Sculpture Gallery Art 84

Colossal

AUGUST 10, 2022

What do an injured Kelley O’Hara and “The Incredulity of Saint Thomas” by Italian Baroque artist Mattia Preti have in common? Since 2015, Rader has been cleverly pairing photos from professional sports with art historical works. Left: A photo of Bill Russell by Dick Raphael. ” Top: Photo by Tom Stillman.

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Sports Art Sculpture Artist 92

Abduzeedo

AUGUST 1, 2021

Shane Griffin is an Irish born Director & Artist. His work spans a broad range of disciplines, from animation and live action, to sculpture and CGI. Shane has created work for some of the worlds leading brands & agencies.

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Colossal

MAY 21, 2021

A monumental patchwork wolf, warriors sparring with a fang-bearing snake, and an abstract woolen tapestry made of restored blankets comprise Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, which opens this weekend at the Denver Art Museum. Cannupa Hanska Luger, “Every One” (2018), ceramic, social collaboration, 12 x 15 x 3 feet.

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Colossal

JUNE 21, 2024

All images © Xenobia Bailey, courtesy of Venus Over Manhattan, shared with permission From bright yarns, pony beads, and cowry shells, artist and activist Xenobia Bailey hand-crochets elaborate shooting stars, suspended shelters, and sacred forms. Her work appeared in Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing (1989), in which Samuel L. .”

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Pinaffo & Pluvinage , have worked together since 2015, fascinated by the physics, mechanics, and even pyrotechnics of our ever-evolving technologies. Pinaffo & Pluvinage construct large-scale kinetic sculptures from modest supplies like paper, cardboard, and wooden battens. Four details of “Sfumato” (2023).

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Colossal

APRIL 15, 2024

All images © Thandiwe Muriu, courtesy of Chronicle Chroma, shared with permission In 2015, Thandiwe Muriu ( previously ) began CAMO , a series that takes a kaleidoscopic view of the lives of contemporary African women. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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