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.
Japanese kimonos are undoubtedly one of the world’s most famous textile traditions. During the early 20th century Japan rose to prominence on the world stage with a rapid increase in wealth and industry. This particular period was a special time for kimonos with artists commissioned to create individual kimono artworks. We found this incredible collection… Read more »
Alison won the Sponsor’s Choice Award for our furnishing textile competition with her amazing illustrated African tribal print. As the latest crop of design students have graduated, Think Positive has taken the opportunity to catch up with handful in a series of interviews to be posted over the next few weeks. Alison shares with us… Read more »
Chen Chen and Kai Williams (Chen Williams) are two industrial designers that met while studying in New York. Both have gone on to work at some impressive companies: Chen at New York’s Moss and Williams started his own a CNC fabrication company Somewhere in the land between art and industrial design Chen and Williams create… Read more »
In 1965 this beautiful Modernist home was built by architect Ray Kappe for his family. What an incredible example of design to still be relevant today. Strong use of colour, space and light make this home warm, inviting and truly timeless. For more on this house and Ray Kappe read this article in Dwell.
Eight years ago, we hatched a plan with UTS to run an annual tie and scarf print design competition, challenging students to put their creativity to the test with a real brief, rather than designing something for themselves. What began as a casual call for entries is now firmly embedded as a part of the… Read more »
Pink isn’t the earthiest of colours. Musk sticks, fairy floss, lipstick, strawberry milk; these are the things that spring to mind when thinking of the colour pink, not large expanses of salt lakes. Collected over a period of 3 years photographer Steve Back has taken these aerial photographs of Hutt Lagoon on the coast of… Read more »