A few bold and beautiful palettes to illuminate this gray day in New York. Marni’s presenting their 2014 Evening and Resort collections with an artistic, flat video. Using floral vectors for a curtain, the edges are cloaked in busy stillness. The edges allow the viewer peer in ever so slightly, creating a secret garden effect. Here’s a link to the video, if you’re so inclined. What do you think?
1. Maiko Takeda’s otherworldly headdresses via Yatzer
2. Absolutely gorgeous paintings from Georgina Vinsun via The Jealous Curator
3. Dominos to moon over via Plenty of Colour
4. Busts that defy convention via Style Bubble
5. Paul Octavious matches Pantone swatches to real life objects via Design Crush
6. Imagery from “The First Book of Language” via Present & Correct
7. Digging this leather wrap bracelet tutorial via Poppytalk
8. Smitten with Fossik’s rugs and blankets via design*sponge
9. Akio Takamori’s intruiging sculptures via Arthound
10. Katy Horan’s striking paintings beg a close look at the details via The Fox is Black
11. The fantastic versatility of living / working in a warehouse via The Design Files
12. Fabienne Rivory’s unusually beautiful images via Colossal
Contributed by Emily Gup
How do we draw the line between good and bad; who we are, where we want to be…then reflect, create, and disperse our work? Meet Jeffrey Gibson, a Native American artist who’s continually tackling the conflict of design within the confines of cultural identity vs. an unbridled love for modern art. Is he obligated by his roots to pursue the former and deny the right to appropriate the latter? The process has been a path of self discovery and acceptance, and his latest exhibition succeeds in uncovering a unique voice, melding two loves.
National Academy Museum: 1083 Fifth Ave, New York, New York 10128
Father’s Day’s just around the corner and if your dad was the suit and tie wearing type, this card from Sway Space will resonate. Brimming with embossed imperfect textures, there’s a beautiful timelessness to the layout. Click here for more info, or to purchase.
The best retail displays are made meticulously with TLC. Today’s feature highlights the delicate beauty of hanging flowers. Inspired by the drying process, as illustrated in the first photo, flowers are elegant in all lives. Handmade in both instances, Anthropologie‘s paper tulips hang above their home department. Bisous Ciao‘s display, a love of labor by the owner and chef, Tanya Ngangan, is a gradual wave of layered papers. All very season appropriate, isn’t it?
This week’s picks seek to connect the dots of the universe in manners large and small.
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1. Making the real and the imagery pop at La Louver
2. Negar Ahkami’s paintings celebrate Persian art’s connectivity and its contributions to global visual culture at Leila Heller Gallery
3. Marianne Van Lent’s “Cosmologies” is an investigation and a reaction to our fragile position in the universe at The Painting Center
4. Aubrey Williams’s Shostakovich series was created in response to close listening, over a long period, to the symphonies and string quartets, of one of the greatest composers of the mid-twentieth century at Hales Gallery
5. Julian Hoeber continues his investigation of intuitive processes within geometrical compositional systems at Blum & Poe
6. Ian Kimmerly’s softly blurred photorealistic figures slip between abstract gestures while gleaming, thickly impastoed streaks of paint are counterbalanced by bright, geometric pops of color at Dolby Chadwick Gallery