In anticipation of Australian Indigenous Fashion Week 2014 we wanted to share some of the incredible work from indigenous artists who will be shown at the event in April next year. Shaun Edwards is a Kokoberrin artist from Pinnarinch, part of the western coastline of Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland, Australia – landscape made up… Read more »
A commitment to a strong colour palette always make a photoshoot so much more striking. We recently posted on the seventies colour palette of Henrik Halvarsson for German magazine Flair, and only yesterday we stumbled across this beauty Julia Noni for Vogue Germany. Another amazing shoot with colours, including mustard, teal, canary yellow, yves blue… Read more »
Victoria Garcia is an artist and illustrator who has lent her talents to likes of Ginger and Smart, Karen Walker, Peter Alexander, Marnie Skillings and more! She specialises in creating hand drawn imagery and pattern using illustration. She references “Wunderkammer’ (or Cabinet of Curiosities) as a source of inspiration – a period during 17th century… Read more »
The following photographs are a selection from Malcolm Kirk‘s collection documenting tribal body art of Papua New Guinea tribes. Once the former assistant of Irving Penn, Kirk took the photographs over 13 years of travel to the South Pacific. Tribesmen and women decorate themselves for social gatherings, the imagery does not necessarily have specific cultural… Read more »
Think Positive was delighted to have a visit from The Bonafide Bedfellows – a creative online journal profiling “those who persistently inspire our fashion, music, design and photography industries”. Think Positive designer Emilie Cacace was their latest subject of interest, interviewing her on her “very big baby” Andéol. Emilie took Bonafide Bedfellows on a tour… Read more »
Deep South is the ongoing project of Melbourne-based photographer Sean Fennessy, capturing the everyday life of Australia’s island state: Tasmania. Banal or beautiful, only the viewer can decide, but Sean’s photos certainly capture suburban stillness, with a calm observational tone. Bake sales, dog shows, the Lion’s Club, each captures a moment of life in the… Read more »
Illustrator Bernadette Pascua created the art for the beautiful soft feminine prints of Stephanie Downey’s Spring/Summer 2014 collection for her label Dress Up. The main design is a hand painted Protea motif in an ink blue and frost grey colorway. A watercolor zig zag stripe based on the leaves of the Banksia plant was created to… Read more »
Xue Li is the Chinese Central Saint Martin’s textile graduate who really caught our eye with his neon tribal collection. Inspired by the Long-horn Miao village – an ethnic minority group in southwest China, whose traditional clothes feature a lot of brightly woven fibers in neon pink and orange. Below are some pages from his… Read more »
Soft Rock scarves are designed by product designer Bethan Laura Wood. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2006, her work includes jewellery, furniture, lighting and installation pieces. Her digitally printed scarves are based on a different rock or mineral. The outer edge of the scarf is dictated by the form of the rock… Read more »