Think Positive is very excited to announce the launch of our new online store Penny Lane. Penny Lane emerged as a result of the many creative surface designers – whether they be students, graduates, hobbyists or up-and-coming textile designers – who would walk through the doors of Think Positive with plenty of talent but with… Read more »
Ana Kras is a Serbian artist and designer who lives in New York City. Her work is so simple in design but thoughtfully chosen colours make it so special. Her Bonbon lamps are the most well known of her work. She creates them by weaving thread over a wire frame in colour blocks. Take a… Read more »
While researching strange experiments from the 1950s, Spanish photographer Cristina De Middel stumbled across the Zambian space program – a wildly ambitious project by a Zambian school teacher, Edward Makuka, who attempted to put the first African on Mars in 1964. Makuka put 12 students and one cat through a rigorous training program, with the… Read more »
With a wealth of incredible blogs out there devoted to the world of interiors – including our personal favourite Australian design blog The Design Files – we try to keep a special eye out for homes that use colour and textiles in interesting and innovative ways. Dutch photography duo Inez and Vinoodh’s New York loft… Read more »
Alexandra Valenti is an LA-based photographer and artist. Her photographs have an other worldly quality that reflect her interest in the psychedelic. Bathed in warm light, often in black and white or sepia, she draws over the top of her photos with markers, creating a dream-like dimension with portals of colour and webbed patterns. The… Read more »
We love this beautiful editorial from two of our favourite designers Jenny Kee and Romance Was Born which was published in Russh late last year. Left to run wild in the mountains, with photographer Samuel Hodge, the fun-loving trio created this beautiful spread that echoes their vibrant creativity and free spirit. Filled with Jenny’s unmistakable… Read more »
Edit and Orson & Blake co-curate a blog together called Interiorlist – a homage to beautiful interiors and homewares. But between the two of them they don’t have to look very far. Edit is the brainchild of former editor of Vogue Entertaining & Travel and Vogue Living, Sharyn Storrier Lyneham. Known for the vibrant prints… Read more »
It is amazing the way that colour can trigger human responses and sensations. Red is perhaps the most evocative of colours and has long history of symbolising and inciting the rawest of human emotions: love, passion, aggression, anger, energy, excitement, power. Irish photographer Richard Mosse plays with these basic instincts using a special type of… Read more »
This year designer Kit Willow celebrates the tenth year of her eponymous label. For her A/W 2013 season, she kept a very neutral palette, with two beautiful prints based on taken from the patterns of Italian marble. One is taken from Portoro a burnt orange veined black marble from Porto Venere. The other is a… Read more »
Alexandra Segreti and Kelly Rakowski are two friends and co-creators of New Friends who met on the Internet. One lives in Philaedelphia and one lives in New York. Bonded by a love of craft and textiles they embarked on a project together, creating these little woven artworks in rainbow colours, which they sell online and… Read more »
Christian Gieraths is a photographer, from Cologne, who travels the world searching for calm beauty in the places that you would least expect. From Mumbai to suburban America, Christian’s photos remind us that there is always something beautiful in the ugly and always something ugly in the beautiful. Each photograph is notably absent of human… Read more »