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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Contemplating the nature of ourselves and of the environment in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. The tremendous innovation of Japanese fashion designers who have revolutionized the way we think of fashion today is the focus of this special exhibition,”Future Beauty” at Seattle Art Museum
2. Held In Air presents new works by Danielle Rante, stemming from her time in residence in northern Iceland, where geographic extremes exist in this small land mass have profound effects on earth’s surface, hundreds of thousands of miles away at K. Imperial Fine Art
3. Striations, featuring new work by Kia Neill and Margaret Withers, explores the way in which form and pattern shape the natural world at G Gallery
4. “Sin Fronteras”, a collection of works by Mexico City’s Neter Collective at Antler
5. Sylvia Ji’s “Interwoven” features new acrylic paintings on wood inspired by Mexican textile and female figurative elements at FFDG
6. Blending into their surroundings and changing the landscapes at chashama

August 6, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Book Review: Pattern Magic 2




Not long ago we covered the fashion cult favorite, Pattern Magic. If you enjoyed delving into the intricacies of the unique patterns Japanese designers are known for, you’ll love the second volume, which was recently released in English.  Here you’ll find even more fascinating designs and instructions on how to manipulate your own patterns into unexpected shapes and forms. Crack this book open for instruction and inspiration into the beauty, art and architecture that is fashion design.

March 23, 2011 | By: Shayna Kulik

Book Review: Pattern Magic




If you’re interested in fashion design, at some point you’ve probably pulled apart clothing from a fancy department store trying to figure out how it was made. Once you start to understand the fascinating process of pattern making, all the separate pieces required to create a garment start to make sense.

You can look at a piece of clothing and mentally visualize how it was created. Sometimes, though, even the best pattern makers are stumped by fantastical avant-garde manipulations. This is where Pattern Magic can give you a hand. Created by Tomoko Nakamichi, a professor at Japan’s Bunka Fashion College, the book has gained a cult following with its detailed instructions on how to create extremely intimidating designs.

Whether you’re interested in the technical processes or simply getting a glimpse at the “magic” behind some mind-bending designs, this book is sure to be a treasured piece for any fashion devotee, especially now that its being produced in English.

February 2, 2011 | By: Shayna Kulik

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