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Friday Quick Links!




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1. Michelle Armas’ new abstract works via design-milk
2. Intriguing body casts by Daniel Ramos Obregón via The Jealous Curator
3. Make your own floral chandelier! via design*sponge
4. Melissa Zexter’s embroidered photographs via Design Crush
5. Adorable new goodies from Studio Arhoj via Miss Moss
6. Jazz up your floor with electrical tape! via Jezebel
7. Adorable mobiles by Kim Baise via Oh Happy Day
8. Are pineapples the new owls? via SF Girl by Bay
9. Weave a wall hanging via Honestly WTF
10. Interview with ceramicist Sarah Schembri via The Design Files
11. Digging these framed lightbulbs via Present & Correct
12. Sliced glass paintings by Loren Stump via Colossal

Contributed by Emily Gup

June 13, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Hannah Waldron's Woven Art




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When I see a project like this, my jaw drops. It’s one thing to design an intricate layout in illustrator or photoshop where your planes are 2D and your toolset is smooth and mathematical. It’s another thing to translate that work of art into a 3D woven masterpiece. Behold, Hanna Waldron’s latest creative endeavor, Cloud in Hand.

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Waldron has been studying textiles for the past two years in Sweden, at Konstfack, and has recently presented her Master’s project, a woven poem…bringing Patti Smith’s The Coral Sea to life.

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My Master’s project, an intricate weaving based on the poem The Coral Sea by Patti Smith, is a tapestry for the present. My design celebrates Smith’s luminous crafting of words to convey the physical world and aims to translate the tactile qualities of the poem into the tactile medium of weaving.

I believe that there is a need now in contemporary society for greater material knowledge. This work aims to put value into making and investigate interdisciplinary approaches to sharing material knowledge.

 

June 13, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

The Physics of Pattern Making




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Watch this, I promise it’ll amaze you. It’s the visualization of frequency and sound waves through the use of salt.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that patterns and symmetry lay the foundation of life. This demo’s a nice reminder, simplifying complex equations for everyone to understand.

 

June 11, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists revive craft techniques and discarded objects, giving these forms a new life and story.

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1. Adia Millett’s Objects of What Remains uses components of craft, including materiality, texture, layering, architectural façades, and repetition, to investigate memory and the concept of ghosts at Mixed Greens
2. In My God, It’s Full of Stars, collaborative team Kevin Cooley and Phillip Andrew Lewis expand the production of a common object, a vinyl record, into a metaphor for the cosmos at Pierogi
3. Henrique Oliveira’s cavernous series of tunnels crafted from reclaimed wood at Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade
4. A group of intrepid artists are working to reclaim the photograph as a unique and handmade object, through an entirely unexpected medium: embroidery at Robert Mann
5. In his Quilt series, Sanford Biggers appropriates antebellum quilts from the American South and renders them with acrylic, spray paint, silkscreen, embroidery, and fine art paper. The result depicts aggregate symbols from the Underground Railroad and sacred geometry, particularly the mandala at David Castillo Gallery
6. Jacob Magraw’s embroidered pieces are stations for thought and interpretation at Park Life Store

June 10, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Artist Profile: Chyrum Lambert




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I recently got a note from the artist Chyrum Lambert, and subsequently fell into a fifteen minute vortex of collage and muted storytelling. Lambert lives in LA and creates beautiful textured layouts that appear abstract from afar, but get more directive the longer you stare. Using ink, dye, stain, acrylic, wax, epoxy, and oil, the works stand on their own, but simultaneous work as a collective unit.  Lambert’s style seems easily transferrable to fashion or editorial…I’d love to see his art grace the pages of The New Yorker or perhaps, even a Marni skirt.

 

June 9, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Friday Quick Links!




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1. Soviet housing throughout Hungary by Katharina Rogers via Present & Correct
2. A peek inside the studio of K&R Ceramics via design*sponge
3. Taking a classic game and simplifying it with the use of color via Design Crush
4. Sweet DIY embroidered wooden box via Honestly WTF
5. Lovely ceramic and copper wind chime you can DIY via Poppytalk
6. The Sock Drawer’s awesome art socks via Miss Moss
7. Amanda Brazier creates her own paint from soil via The Jealous Curator
8. Digging these contemporary Indian Rugs via Trendland
9. Whip up some super adorable fruit cupcakes via Oh Joy!
10. Jim Bachor mends potholes with mosaics via Colossal
11. Illustrator Adriana Picker via The Design Files
12. Love this patchwork furniture by kith&kin via design-milk

Contributed by Emily Gup

June 6, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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