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Sea-Inspired Sculptural Jewelry by Mariko Kusumoto Blossoms from Gossamer Fabrics

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.” All images © Mariko Kusumoto, shared with permission Exquisite bulbs, florets, and playful silhouettes emerge from delicate fiber in the jewelry and sculptures of Mariko Kusumoto ( previously ). Kusumoto is currently working on a public art installation that will be installed in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, this November.

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Lily Lambie-Kiernan draws out the metaphors surrounding food in her deliciously surreal illustrations

Creative Boom

And she explores these meanings in her lurid yet softly textured editorial work for magazines and websites. "I I enjoy pulling the rich tones and textures out of the food I’m drawing," she tells Creative Boom. "I Sometimes the colours and textures take the lead on a food illustration project," she adds.

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A Knotted Octopus Carved Directly into Two Pianos Entwines Maskull Lasserre’s New Musical Sculpture

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The resulting sculpture connects through a tangled, textured knot of octopus tentacles, of which the eight arms correspond to the eight notes of the octaves available within the keyboard. Lasserre is currently working on a large public work in Squamish, British Columbia, which you can find preliminary photos of on Instagram.

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Top 10 of 2022: Our Favourite Public Spaces

Azure Magazine

When we came up with this multifarious grouping of our favourite public spaces, we thought of the variety of projects that have enlivened and bettered our shared realms. Forest Pavilion, Winnipeg, by Public City Architecture. Across Canada and the United States, parks seldom feel like they truly belong to the public.

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Hand-Dyed Paper Seeds Flow Through Sculptural Landscapes and Portraits by Ilhwa Kim

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South Korean artist Ilhwa Kim describes her meditative sculptural works as analogous to living architecture, “a live plant or the tree in (an) urban or natural space.” “But I’d like my works to have a far stronger life presence in the physical surroundings as a sculpture.” Seedsystem detail.

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Edinburgh Park: Scotland's new cultural destination gets an exciting brand courtesy of dn&co

Creative Boom

He is also an avid collector of large-scale art, and his plans for a sculpture trail across the estate really appealed to our fundamental belief in the need for places to have culture at their heart.". There's a particular smell, a particular colour to the low glancing light and a particular texture to the stone.

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Pentagram brings to life the world's most-hyped technology with a nature-inspired identity

Creative Boom

Even advanced, accessible tools like Cohere need an approachable appearance to appeal to the public. Our cells became detailed, sculptural balloons. Our Voronoi plains became textured pebble structures. This all sounds well and good, but if there's one hurdle that trips up AI's ability to connect with the masses, it's branding.