Just a short post today…here’s an incredible piece of artistry woven into a regular fence. Yalla Yalla is a Beirut Street Food Market in Shoreditch, London. Welcoming you into the space is this patchwork sculpture that’s almost invisible, until you’re up close, inspecting the menu, deciding whether or not you want to enter. It feels like wire crochet. Does anyone know who’s responsible for it?
Here are a few favorites from the bunch- sharing printed and woven textiles ranging from baby to indie to art to home wear. Enjoy!
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1. Beauty in geometry and mid-century monochromes.
2. Gina Rockenwagner’s sharp and playful quilts.
3. Discovering Alabama Chanin’s placemats at Heath Ceramics.
4. Remarkable art & sculpture made from curled paper.
5. Jacob Magraw’s embroidered pieces are stations for thought and interpretation.
6. Super cool Matisse x Tata Naka mash-up.
7. Illustrative and feminine florals of the surreal and literal variety.
8. Optics made with acrylic on woven textiles by Samantha Bittman.
9. Adorable bunny sheets for the babies in your life from Blabla.
10. Woven collages from Janelle Pietrzak and Robert Dougherty.
Every few weeks, we’re churning out tangram posts. It’s longevity mirrors that of the skull trend, as they’ve been around for years and aren’t disappearing anytime soon. Today’s feature highlights the 3D connectivity that occurs when you bring these triangles to life. I snapped the the top photo while at Anthropologie last week. The notebook’s a nice translation of the aesthetic and palette, by Papier Tigre, and the model’s wearing a rather intricate and impressive design by Sandra Backlund. Just below, we’re sharing a very special project by the folks at Pattern Makers. The art represents an info graphic about the frequency of blood groups in Singapore’s donor population. Amazing.
German artist Mike Meiré‘s latest exhibition, Economy of Attention, presents a series of large-scale works on paper alongside ceramic sculptures that embrace the medium of newsprint and highlight its structural beauty.
His latest body of work follows a series of singular paintings on newsprint, which examines existing grids in newspaper layout and reflects on the prioritization of information through graphic design.
Meiré’s background as an art director along with his intrinsic understanding of this medium allows him to strip the compositions to a bare minimum.
Central to all of Meiré’s work is a delicate interplay between the highly refined and mundane everyday materials. The juxtaposition of organic and often sexually explicit or gender-orientated ceramic objects alongside anodyne geometric elements play an increasingly important role in Meiré’s work.
As one line of work continues to inform the other, Meiré’s paintings and ceramic sculptures reveal a profound understanding of popular culture. It is this knowledge, which allows the artist to explore the deep-rooted neurotics that inhibit today’s societies and in turn challenges these through his work. Click here for more info.
Bartha Contemporary Ltd.: 25 Margaret Street, London W1W 8RX
Book Art is a stunning 220-page compilation of art, installation and design created with and from books. The content is diverse in narrative and ranges from old printed pages wound into creative threads to laborious works of art, decomposed into organic matter. 
The fascinating range of examples is proof that—despite or because of digital media’s inroads as a source of information—the book’s legacy as a carrier of ideas and communication is an impressive one. Click here to buy online.
Alison Foshee sees the beauty in everyday objects. With meticulous attention to detail, she directs thumbtacks and pushpins to explode into extravagant floral arrangements, staples to trace the jagged contour of a leaf and office labels to spin out in hot, firecracker explosions. Over the past 15 years, she’s created her own distinct style in revealing something about each material’s original function in the shape and content of her creations.
To Alison, the entire process of creation is both art and adventure: “In search of my muse, I enjoy scouring our urban city centers, like an orchid thief in the Amazon, for weird and marvelous products like the next generation of folder dividers or the latest technology in bendable pencils. I find these readymade oddities ever fascinating because of their dual nature as consumable goods. They are simultaneously indispensable and without value; perhaps, a not-so-subtle metaphor for culture’s subjective/plastic definition of what is precious.”