Pattern Pulp

Friday Quick Links!




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1. Mats crafted from marine rope via design*sponge
2. Adoring Frida Wannerberger’s illustrations via Style Bubble
3. A neat way to grow your own food via Design Milk
4. Adore these pots by Studio P.S via Present & Correct
5. Nicole Van Beek’s paintings remind us a bit of tie dye via The Art Cake
6. The ceramics of Sophie Moorhouse Morris via The Design Files
7. Digging these abstract city maps by Jazzberry Blue via Colossal
8. Adorable DIY Liberty print backpacks via Purl Bee
9. Works by Jesse Moretti for Meet Me at the Horizon Line via Little Paper Planes
10. A positively gorgeous array of florals via Miss Moss
11. Play with your food via Oh Joy!
12. Masha Reva fuses fashion design with art, graphics, photography and styling via Yellowtrace

Contributed by Emily Gup

July 26, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Trend Tracking: The Rounded Row




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Every designer’s got an eagle eye. We’re always watching and consuming, noticing the details. Thoughts like, her eyelashes uncharacteristically long, to woah, the brim of that hat’s asymmetrical in an 80’s-kind-of-way, to boy, the tip jar’s fuller than usual – maybe it’s the pop culture reference, are on constant loop during my daily commute.

Designers are trained to catch the obvious and less apparent commercial trends, then track their origins. Today’s feature pulls from yesterday’s instagram reel. We have rounded overlapping rows in three varying scenarios: as a vibrant leather clutch from Antik Batik, as a silk 2D tunic on the street in Soho and as a crochet basket from Calypso Home. Sometimes it’s easiest to document, review then compile. What’s your strategy?

 

July 24, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks explore journeys and the trials that lay within.

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1. Joshua Podoll ‘s paintings become energized through the bravado and angularity of brushwork and intensity of color and contrast at Christopher Grimes Gallery
2. Roy Lichtenstein Expressionist works at Gagosian
3. Cut ‘n’ Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City revisits early uses of collage to trace its evolution as both an aesthetic technique central to architectural representation and a cultural practice of layering, juxtaposition, and remix that configures the city at MoMA
4. Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet reveals a rare cross-cultural artistic dialogue among three prominent artists at Parrish Art Museum
5. Phil Frost’s “The Solace of the Sword” references the struggle with the solitary confinement required to create at Ace Gallery
6. Andrew Schoultz’s work generates a high-energy impact with an overpopulation of meticulous renderings and controversial themes that resonate with cataclysmic force at  The Monterey Museum of Art

 

July 23, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Home Goods from Paris & Japan




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This post is more eye candy than informational, as I sadly don’t have most of the sources to share with you. That said, it’s spot on in terms of home accessory highlights coming out of Paris and Japan. Everything from the asymmetrical screen prints to the fluorescent stars, to the crochet seating, pastel palettes, geometric poufs and linen pouches overlap both locales. Does anything speak to you? I’d buy that rug in a heartbeat…

 

July 23, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Friday Quick Links!




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1. Totally loving Sara Cwynar’s color studies via Design Crush
2. A summery painting for this sweltering week via Poppytalk
3. A very colorful church via Plenty of Colour
4. Lovis Caputo & Sarah Kueng’s captivating concrete via LIttle Paper Planes
5. Cheese and marbled paper via Present & Correct
6. Ernesto Caivano’s complex, interwoven language of patterns via Art Hound
7. Alejandro Bombín;s awesome glitchy paintings via The Jealous Curator
8. DIY your own wallpaper! via A Subtle Revelry
9. Louise Paxton’s incredible mixed media artworks via The Design Files
10. How delightfully adorable are these cases via Miss Moss
11. It’s hot out there – go make yourself a spiffed up hat! via Honestly WTF
12. Lovely interview with Sophie Morichi of Archivio Picone via Coolhunting

Contributed by Emily Gup

July 19, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Textiles & Art Gone Angular & Optic




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Paintings mimicing graphic design always have appeal (at least in our book). There’s a complication and prolonged execution that forces the viewer to appreciate the balance and contrast. From Piero Passacantando’s restricted palette in his RGMBW series to the printed textiles and homewares in Mae Engelgeer’s shop, the selections are just jarring and beautiful enough to remind us of geometry’s wonders.

 

July 18, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tracking Repetitive + Awesome.
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