Friday Quick Links!

1. Stunning Australian fungi via Colossal
2. Michela Picchi’s fantastic bright colors and fun graphics via Design Crush
3. Painted diamonds are a girl’s best friend via The Jealous Curator
4. Beyond adorable ceramics from Meyer & Lavigne via Honestly WTF
5. Jeff Martin Joinery’s hand-painted credenzas via design-milk
6. Flower Queens in Madrid, a medieval tradition via Creative Boom
7. DIY abstract photo frames via design*sponge
8. Colonization of lichens via Trendland
9. Dig this idea of wood burning wooden utensils via Poppytalk
10. Simone Truong’s lovely melancholy paintings via Artsy Forger
11.Love these delightfully quirky rugs from GUR via Miss Moss
12. An amazing kaleidoscope playground via Yatzer

Contributed by Emily Gup

May 29, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

Book Review: Behind Collections

Graphic Design in branding and communication has always been important. Something well designed can create customer loyalty, monetary benefits, and an edge on competition. Insert pattern and texture into this conversation and you’ve elevated it, giving the audience more visuals to identify with.

Behind Collections is an encyclopedia of the best graphic design and promotional materials in the fashion industry today. It hits a certain aesthetic that’s quite popular at the moment, and reveals the varied methods of achieving a luxurious brand through color, embossing, typography and photography.

It includes promotional design from ACNE, HONOR, AKIN, Vogue, Hermes and more…and an index of the creative studios behind the work.

Here are a few spreads that that caught my eye. If you’re looking to add another book to the library, I highly recommend investing in this one. Click here to purchase.

May 28, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

Doors Throughout Morocco

I was recently telling a friend about my travels throughout Morocco, and she said that her father used to buy old Moroccan doors and ship them to America. The endeavor sounded equally arduous and enterprising.

All throughout the country, multicolored patterned doors fill the streets. There are engravings, paintings and metal work that nod to the rich cultural roots.

Here are a few snaps from Fez, Essaouira and Marrakesh. Compared to their textiles, the designs are tame, but on their own, they stand as incredible works of functional art.

May 27, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks

This week’s artists explore their creativity in everyday materials and experiences.

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1.Michael Zelehoski takes found three-dimensional objects like pallets and police barricades and restructures them into two-dimensional space via Mike Weiss Gallery
2. Exploring the Rules of Vandalism at Le Paris Urbain
3. In her exhibition Attention Shoppers, Lisa Hoke invites the eye to a smorgasbord of color and form sourced from the printed packaging that contains and advertises processed foods at Pavel Zoubok
4. Kacper Kowalski’s striking aerial photography at The Curator Gallery
5. For Passage, Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee intermixed stained coffee filters and hand-drawn patterns on torn rice paper. In addition to the botanical imagery found in both artists’ individual oeuvre, the piece references landscapes from Allison’s work as well as Korean symbols and motifs common in Lee’s work at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
6. Rick Begneaud aptly combines paint, collaged with fabrics to create abstracted, angular shapes pulsating with rich color at Woodward Gallery

May 27, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

Friday Quick Links!

1. Tehran transforms billboards into art via The Guardian
2. Inside the studio of Hoi P’loy via Miss Moss
3. An exquisitely colorful and luxurious hotel in Jaipur via Trendland
4. Fantastic terracotta ceramics from Sharon Muir via The Design Files
5. Melissa McCracken paints music via WeTheUrban
6. An abandoned house in Detroit is covered in flowers via My Modern Met
7. Pip & Pop’s sugar crafted world via The Jealous Curator
8. Zemer Peled creates her sculptures from ceramic shards via Honestly WTF
9. Lovely new wallpapers & tiles from Grow House Grow via design*sponge
10. Jenny Acosta’s delightful series of illustrated food puns via iGNANT
11. Vintage postcard landscapes combined into new sculptures via Design Crush
12. Art history in contemporary life via Colossal

Contributed by Emily Gup

May 22, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

Crowded Spaces + Flat Design

There’s an interesting optics play going on here. We have two very talented graphic designers creating varying crowds. While one feels like the Barnard graduation, filled with promising young women, the other has a metropolitan rush hour vibe. You can feel the hustle and bustle through the pattern blocking. The drawing on the left is by Alessandra Genualdo, an Italian illustrator living in London. I came across the layout while on a trip to Toronto. It was on the cover of Double Dot Magazine. The black and white crowd on the right is a piece by the Japanese artist Hisashi Okawa, who I recently discovered on Pinterest. It’s a beautiful juxtaposition, no?

May 21, 2015 | By: Shayna Kulik

Friday Quick Links!

Book Review: Behind Collections

Doors Throughout Morocco

Tuesday's Gallery Picks

Friday Quick Links!

Crowded Spaces + Flat Design

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