On Monday night the results of Think Positive’s annual student textile competition were announced at the opening of the exhibition for this year’s talented design and fabric printing graduates from Ultimo TAFE, appropriately titled ‘Sensory’. This year is the first year for Think Positive’s print design competition, inviting students to submit an original textile print… Read more »
Sometimes it’s hard to explain why you like what you see. When you look at the work of Parisian photographer Quentin de Briey his photos have a soft and gentle quality to them; they seem of the ordinary, yet somehow striking and special. But mostly they just make you wish you were there too.
Malin Gabriella Nordin is a Swedish artist whose beautiful work is worthy of a whole other post entirely. Upon sifting through the collections of sculpture, paintings and collages on her website, we found a very special project that she has being working on this year that warmed our hearts. Titled Private Language, Malin invited children… Read more »
Each season Something Else works with artists, illustrators and textile designers to develop their collection’s original print art and placements. Something Else art director George Barnes carefully selects the artists, briefing them on the collection’s concept, with mood board images and a written brief which they are able to freely interpret. This season Spanish painter… Read more »
How beautiful are these hand-dyed scarves by Tokyo textile designer Yukio Fujisawa (b. 1989)! As most of her site is in Japanese there isn’t much information, but we think her artist statement is enough: “I always express “the invisible” by textile. Invisible is the thing that exist as a concept, not to be touched or… Read more »
John Chamberlain (1927-2011) was an American sculptor who worked with recycled steel and old car parts to create jagged sculptures painted in bright metallic gradients of colour. Using crushed old car parts, his work was often interpreted with having a violent energy, likened to car crashes. Chamberlain used bright colours in a rejection of this… Read more »
Nathalie du Pasquier is a French artist who has lived in Milan since 1979, where she has worked as a part of the Memphis collective. Memphis was a group of architects, industrial designers and artists who collaborated in an effort to shake up the 1980s Milan design scene. The collective worked against the rigid rule… Read more »
Hassan Hajjaj is a Morrocan photographer who lives in Marrakech for half of the year (and the other half in London), where he spends time photographing the people he meets. He began taking the photographs for his first series My Rockstars: Volume 1 in 1998. Hajjaj carefully constructs each image, often dressing his subjects in… Read more »
Jenny Kee‘s exhibition of her latest work opens this weekend at the Hat Hill Gallery in the Blue Mountains. A homage to her personal totem the Waratah, eighteen 60 x 60 cm acrylic paintings on board will be on display. The collection is vibrant and rich in colour – in true Jenny style – and… Read more »
[iframe width=”760″ height=”515″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/G-OVrI9x8Zs” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] Want to know what happens when a squid listens to Cypress Hill? They go insane in the chromatophores! This video was produced by Backyard Brains who conducted a series of experiments on the giant axons of the Longfin Inshore Squid (loligo pealei). The colour-changing nature of the squid’s skin is… Read more »
Eamon Donnelly is a Melbourne-based, illustrator and all-round creative, who moonlights as a passionate Australian archivist. He recently launched his new site The Island Continent – a homage to the colour, lifestyle and humour of Australian culture. Featured on the site so far are collections of photographs of Australian subcultures and local icons, including a… Read more »
Faig Ahmed is the Azerbaijani artist reinventing the carpet. Well not really, he’s merely just challenging “its habitual and visually static qualities”. Ahmed explores the traditional craft culture of his country (bordering Iran to the north, in case you were wondering), creating 3-dimensional installations using the patterns and motifs of Azerbaijani carpets.