Every now and then the FT Weekend gets their fashion, print and pattern spread really right. The most recent collaboration with artist, photographer and stylist, Damian Foxe is a mind blowing example. Equal parts commercial and artistic, Foxe works with several traditional wallpaper houses to create life-sized paper dolls.
Wallpaper houses included in this spread include: Timorous Beasties, Sanderson, Lewis and Wood and Designers Guild.
For our readers who relish combining dueling styles, today’s feature is for you. Whether you’re a fine artist, a print and publications designer or simply a reader or creative consumer, it’s hard to ignore the collage-effect that’s been surfacing for a while now.
We’ve all gotten used to seeing Perez Hilton‘s infamous scrawl on celebrity photos. Though it’s easy to discern his mass appeal from the fine art fabrication of Butch Anthony’s curiously eerie skeleton and skull drawings (a few of which are hanging at Stag Men’s store in Austin), it’s important to note the illustrative effect.
or truly literal old meets new product shots, Horacio Salinas and Stellene Volandes recent collaboration for Departures Magazine takes the style to the next level, proving 2D meets 3D can be brilliant when modernized and deconstructed.
Over the past few weeks we’ve been noticing a new trend in the the retail sector. Everyone from Custo Barcelona, Anthropologie and Isabel Marant has been experimenting with string. From florescent sharp edges to crafty corks and quirky block heads, each display reveals a precise and economical take on the brand. Using linear paths to lead the eye, these installations remind us of a recent feature in Theme Magazine. The artist uses electrical tape to construct optical vanishing points, a throw back to the basics and a reminder of what we all learned in art class.
This beautiful project just appeared in my Percolate feed and all of you should know about it. In collaboration with Anomaly, Unit 9, Breed, Blinkart, Dutch Uncle, Jelly, Ben Kay, Acco Ozawa, Rebecca Gaon, Picasso Pictures, Tess Birch and many other kind and giving illustrators, One Thousand Cranes for Japan was born.
A beautiful Japanese tradition tells that a wish may be granted in response to someone with the devotion to fold one thousand origami cranes. This project seeks to draw on that ancient healing and show that the emotional blow received can be responded to through the strength of solidarity and human compassion.
Artists have created beautiful designs that can be made into origami cranes. A donation to the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund will allow you to download a design with instructions to guide you in making a crane.
The balance between nature’s organic lines and the sharp geometry of its specimens is a beautiful thing to capture when done well. Elke Kramer, a Sydney-based graphic designer, illustrator, jewelery designer and art-director merges both extremes with ease and sophistication. Combining vivid foliage with mosaic-like repetition, her color palettes and textures resonate across all mediums. Check out her portfolio for a window into a world of soulful synthetics and organic textures.
On the heels of this morning’s Moki post, it seems relevant to highlight two paralleling works. The Standard Hotel, Vanessa Beecroft, Guest of a Guest and Playboy presented the installation, Nude is Muse at Art Basel Miami. It was a huge hit (big surprise). Mimicking this dreamlike state of still haziness, Moki’s ghosts emit a similar vibe. While each image refers us to opposing climates, both landscapes appear lonely, surreal and isolated. Emerging from their environments, both the girls and the ghosts are one with nature, still and stunning.