After leaving university, Lynnie Zulu quickly established herself as a freelance illustrator, capturing the attention of the London fashion world with her brightly coloured, African inspired illustrations. Using inks and a heavy brushstroke style, her work has been commissioned for textile prints with fabulous results by London label Fanny & Jessy. Her mother grew up… Read more »
[iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/53834950″ width=”700″ height=”481″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe] ARCHIE ROACH INTO THE BLOODSTREAM CONCERTS from Speaker TV on Vimeo. Recent years have seen Australia’s beloved singer-songwriter Archie Roach suffer a number of hardships. His recent album Into the Bloodstream has been a process of calm and healing. The live show was in many ways the… Read more »
Mad scientist Lara Cross looks to Fibonacci spirals, Chaos and Theory and the endless correlation between art and science for ideas. What was the main source of inspiration behind your textile & fashion designs? My latest range of designs were based on an Art vs. Science theme. I wanted to find the science in the… Read more »
Melanie Pankau is a Chicago-based artist. Working with acrylics she creates these beautiful paintings, carefully mapping out their layered compositions using colour gradients to form interesting 3-dimensional images. Her colour palette is carefully researched to find collections of colour that are balanced, yet contrasted.
Sometimes it easy to lose your enthusiasm for photography as an art medium. How many low-fi photos of girls, cacti, interiors or anything really can one person take? But when you stumble across the work of a photographer like Jessica Backhaus faith is restored! Something different, something you wouldn’t have noticed, something real, but something… Read more »
Josefine Brodd is the Swedish textile designer, and recent graduate, who was the runner up for Think’s textile competition. We interviewed her on her design inspiration and plans for the future. What was the main source of inspiration behind your textile design? As is the case with a lot of my designs, DRAKE was influenced… Read more »
Jim Naughten is a London-based artist, whose book “Conflict and Costume” is soon to be published. In anticipation, he has released a series of portraits of the Namibian tribe of the Hereros. A colony of the Germany Namibia has a tumultious history, which is what makes the tribe’s choice to wear Victorian dresses and parliamentary… Read more »
Ukrainian artist and fashion designer Masha Reva has collaborated with SYNDICATE of Kiev to create a collection of limited edition digitally-printed sweaters.The collection juxtapositions immersion in the rapid pace of contemporary life, gadgets and social networks with a yearning for our natural environment, explored as a metaphorical botanical garden of Photoshop layers and loading bars.