Pattern Pulp

Custhom's Digital Embroidery




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I always look forward to emails from CUSTHOM. Their collections are unique and boundary-pushing, with meticulous technique and execution. You’re always left wondering, how did they pull that off and why don’t we have a store selling their products in the US? 

Their latest launch, Aves, presents an Otomi pattern rooted in Mexican tradition with modern edge. Digital embroidery’s been used and the final product exists on both wallpaper and fabric. What’s most impressive, to me, at least, is the tonal aspects using a single color- through careful overlap, the objects have a 3D feeling.

 

February 28, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

Homegoods: Design & Divide




The room, that is. Who else is in the process of reinventing their home? I recently moved and am in turbo furnishing mode. Now that my office is also a home office, I’m attempting to section areas off in elegant artistic ways.

Which leads me to Custhom’s newest product collaboration, the modular room divider. They’ve taken their Offset Collection, a beautifully mismatched pattern and applied it to birch-faced ply to create one of the most elegant screens I’ve ever come across. What do you think? How do you compartmentalize your home environment?

 

September 28, 2012 | By: Shayna Kulik

Stitching Your Posters and Pillows




Custhom‘s always up to something interesting. This time around they’re carrying Goldsmith’s collection, a line of embroidered cushions with hand blocks printed on heavy linen.

Then there are these posters. Remarkably simple, yet genius. Taking us back to color basics, they’ve simulated translucent graphics with overlaid stich texture.

Entitled, CMYK, sans K, the embroidered illustrations are sadly sold out. Hopefully they’ll return with another run.

 

May 10, 2012 | By: Shayna Kulik

Homegoods: The Custhom Collection




There’s a beautiful simplicity to the Custhom collection from Thorsten Van Elten. Using thin overlapping vectors, each design is reminiscent of knit patterns and digital gray matter.

Catering to minimalist Scandinavian tastes, this is the first of a series of disjointed pixelated repeats I’ll be posting.

 

November 2, 2011 | By: Shayna Kulik

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