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Disharee Mathur Turns Damaged Sinks and Toilets Into Vases and Accessories

Design Milk

Disharee Mathur is a graduate of the MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering program at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College, London. We use these pieces as a raw material for NewBlue in the Jaipur Blue Pottery workshops – they are used as a strengthening ingredient. These are processed using the existing workshop equipment.

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Take 5: Lamp-Making, Basket Weaving, Metal Art + More

Design Milk

The Philadelphia-based marketplace and design studio Lostine, helmed by husband-and-wife duo Natalie Page and Robert Ogden, gave fellow journalists and myself a chance to indulge in this inclination during their lamp-making workshop hosted in their studio. Motion design and brand development firm Revie.co

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Gabriela Basin on developing her style, finding inspiration, and the importance of embracing your own creativity

Creative Boom

I decided to choose the creative path: I studied fine arts, got a degree in graphic design, and also did a very nerdy and theoretical specialisation in Communicational Design at Universidad de Buenos Aires, where I investigated the relationship between gender theories, power and illustration," she explains. "I

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Varied Patches of Color and Textured Stitches Delineate Expressive Embroidered Portraits

Colossal

Brenda Risquez is deliberate in her use of texture, density, and color in her boldly embroidered portraits inspired by friends and pop culture icons. Currently, she teaches at Workshop Granada and is exploring a variety of techniques involving fabric painting and pattern design. All images © Brenda Risquez, shared with permission.

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Bauhaus Graphic Design: Past, Present, and Future

Inkbot Design

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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August 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

AAP Magazine 42 Shapes (International) All About Photo is seeking cohesive bodies of work for its 42nd issue centered around shapes and “the elements that abstract into light, texture, shape, and shadow.” Chorus Arts ‘Featured Artists’ 2024/2025 (U.K.) Deadline: September 3, 2024. Deadline: Septemner 8, 2024.

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14 Mysterious and Macabre Home Furnishings in Defense of the Dark

Design Milk

For me, it’s more about tone and texture, the interplay of shadow and light, and slightly twisted forms,” says Nicole Ficano, Workshop/APD’s Director of Interiors. “It’s more about thoughtful restraint and materiality. Dark and mysterious doesn’t have to be ugly or rough.