Sewphie did a great job with this stumpwork eyeball – it even glows in the dark!
See the original Craftster post here, and be sure to come back next week for another great pick from the forums!
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Friday, 11 January 2013
Craftster Pick of the Week – Sewphie’s eyeball!
Craftster Pick of the Week – Sewphie’s eyeball!:
Time for another look at some of the great work featured in the forums at Craftster. Note: Although they’re the pick of this week, they may have appeared before this week.
Sewphie did a great job with this stumpwork eyeball – it even glows in the dark!
See the original Craftster post here, and be sure to come back next week for another great pick from the forums!
Sewphie did a great job with this stumpwork eyeball – it even glows in the dark!
See the original Craftster post here, and be sure to come back next week for another great pick from the forums!
Bubble and Speaking
Bubble and Speaking:
>> Some of you may have seen that I've started to pen a column for the much-respected (and rightly so),the Business of Fashion entitled Bubble and Speak (geddit, geddit?) I'm not sure who to credit for that bit of clever punnery but it makes for a catchy title for a column about introducing young designers. For my first bit of Bubble and Speaking, I talked up the knitwear duo Leutton Postle aka Jenny Postle and Sam Leutton, who caught my attention ever since Jenny Postle's Central Saint Martins graduate MA collection in 2011.
During the summer, whilst the duo were working on their S/S 13 collection, which they showed as part of Vauxhall Fashion Scout in September's London Fashion Week, I went to visit their wonderful cavernous studio. It was a hive of knit trick activity. I've stored up all these photos of a real work in progress, which don't necessarily relate to the final S/S 13 collection that was shown. Ideas get scrapped. Decisions change. Directions can swerve in the course of the build-up to the final collection. However, these pics do show that Leutton and Postle are constantly experimenting with a combination of hand and machine knit techniques, incorporating different yarns together as well as materials. When I went to visit, they were fixated by hammer beads, the sort that you meld together into different formations when you're a kid. A lot of these experimental samples didn't make it into the final collection. It's hardly a wasted effort though. What didn't work this time round is kept in Leutton and Postle's big basket of sample squares and could potentially be bought out for future collections. The sketches shown here were also initial ideas for S/S 13 that were then scrapped. To me they look like fertile ideas to pursue later down the line. Leutton Postle are evidently in the fortunate position of having excessive creative output, which they can then edit down when it comes to the final collection.
They even had time to knit a wonderful baby blanket in anticipation of the birth of Mary Portas and Melanie Rickey's baby (Rickey gave birth in September). Read the full article on Business of Fashion to find out more about this knitwear duo. Suffice to say, I believe them when they say there's so much more experimentation to come.
During the summer, whilst the duo were working on their S/S 13 collection, which they showed as part of Vauxhall Fashion Scout in September's London Fashion Week, I went to visit their wonderful cavernous studio. It was a hive of knit trick activity. I've stored up all these photos of a real work in progress, which don't necessarily relate to the final S/S 13 collection that was shown. Ideas get scrapped. Decisions change. Directions can swerve in the course of the build-up to the final collection. However, these pics do show that Leutton and Postle are constantly experimenting with a combination of hand and machine knit techniques, incorporating different yarns together as well as materials. When I went to visit, they were fixated by hammer beads, the sort that you meld together into different formations when you're a kid. A lot of these experimental samples didn't make it into the final collection. It's hardly a wasted effort though. What didn't work this time round is kept in Leutton and Postle's big basket of sample squares and could potentially be bought out for future collections. The sketches shown here were also initial ideas for S/S 13 that were then scrapped. To me they look like fertile ideas to pursue later down the line. Leutton Postle are evidently in the fortunate position of having excessive creative output, which they can then edit down when it comes to the final collection.
They even had time to knit a wonderful baby blanket in anticipation of the birth of Mary Portas and Melanie Rickey's baby (Rickey gave birth in September). Read the full article on Business of Fashion to find out more about this knitwear duo. Suffice to say, I believe them when they say there's so much more experimentation to come.
We Make Carpets
We Make Carpets:
When I came upon We Make Carpet’s site I was blown away by these intricate beautiful carpets “woven” out of everyday throwaway objects.
-Claudia
When I came upon We Make Carpet’s site I was blown away by these intricate beautiful carpets “woven” out of everyday throwaway objects.
-Claudia
Cross-Stitch Installation at Patria Restaurant
Cross-Stitch Installation at Patria Restaurant:
As a confessed textile nut, it makes me weak in the knees to think about covering an entire wall with 17,000 stitches. This incredible installation at Patria Restaurant was created by Commute Home, a Toronto firm. The cross-stitch portion is actually a screen, created by Laura Carwardine, which was laid over a two-story feature wall designed by Marlo Onilla of Biography Design. The full process took over two months to complete, and Commute created an awesome time-lapse video of the project so you can see the hard work that went into it. I love the idea of laying screens over a wall like this; it would allow you to take the piece with you if you ever left, and it would allow any artwork or paint beneath it to be cleaned or repaired if needed. The pictures really say more than I can, so I’ll let them do the talking. I’ll just take a moment to give Laura, Marlo and everyone at Commute a big digital slow clap for this amazing project. Visual inspiration like this is my favorite way to start a morning. xo, grace
More photos after the jump . . .
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As a confessed textile nut, it makes me weak in the knees to think about covering an entire wall with 17,000 stitches. This incredible installation at Patria Restaurant was created by Commute Home, a Toronto firm. The cross-stitch portion is actually a screen, created by Laura Carwardine, which was laid over a two-story feature wall designed by Marlo Onilla of Biography Design. The full process took over two months to complete, and Commute created an awesome time-lapse video of the project so you can see the hard work that went into it. I love the idea of laying screens over a wall like this; it would allow you to take the piece with you if you ever left, and it would allow any artwork or paint beneath it to be cleaned or repaired if needed. The pictures really say more than I can, so I’ll let them do the talking. I’ll just take a moment to give Laura, Marlo and everyone at Commute a big digital slow clap for this amazing project. Visual inspiration like this is my favorite way to start a morning. xo, grace More photos after the jump . . .
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Friday, 16 November 2012
Chapel Street Installation by Studio Twocan
Chapel Street Installation by Studio Twocan:
I truly believe that collaboration is one of the best ways to make any business successful. It allows you to constantly change and grow and lets you share and exchange audiences with another artist. I particularly love stores embracing collaboration with local designers — it always adds so much visual interest to a space. In celebration of their latest collection, Australian fashion studio Cylk collaborated with local designers Twocan (sisters Maddy and Becc Sharrock) on an installation for their flagship store on Chapel Street in Melbourne. Twocan created a sculptural installation that combined natural and recycled materials, including pieces of copper pipe and colored thread. I’ve got a weakness for just about anything combined with copper pipe, so this is going on my dream decoration list. Click here to see more images on Cylk’s Facebook page. Thanks, Maddy and Becc! xo, grace
More images of Studio Twocan’s installation after the jump . . .
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I truly believe that collaboration is one of the best ways to make any business successful. It allows you to constantly change and grow and lets you share and exchange audiences with another artist. I particularly love stores embracing collaboration with local designers — it always adds so much visual interest to a space. In celebration of their latest collection, Australian fashion studio Cylk collaborated with local designers Twocan (sisters Maddy and Becc Sharrock) on an installation for their flagship store on Chapel Street in Melbourne. Twocan created a sculptural installation that combined natural and recycled materials, including pieces of copper pipe and colored thread. I’ve got a weakness for just about anything combined with copper pipe, so this is going on my dream decoration list. Click here to see more images on Cylk’s Facebook page. Thanks, Maddy and Becc! xo, grace More images of Studio Twocan’s installation after the jump . . .
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Bubble Chandelier Made from Post-Consumer PET Bottles
Bubble Chandelier Made from Post-Consumer PET Bottles:
Souda, a new NYC-based product design company, created a stunning chandelier from post-consumer PET bottles. The bottles were collected by homeless individuals in an effort to raise money for the non-profit SURE WE CAN, which runs the only homeless-friendly can redemption center in the NYC area.
After collection, the bottles were brought to Souda’s studio to be cleaned, cut and riveted together to create a dome-like lighting fixture using upwards of 60 upcycled bottles.
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© 2012 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime Derringer in Home Furnishings | Permalink | No comments
Souda, a new NYC-based product design company, created a stunning chandelier from post-consumer PET bottles. The bottles were collected by homeless individuals in an effort to raise money for the non-profit SURE WE CAN, which runs the only homeless-friendly can redemption center in the NYC area.
After collection, the bottles were brought to Souda’s studio to be cleaned, cut and riveted together to create a dome-like lighting fixture using upwards of 60 upcycled bottles.
Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook.
© 2012 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime Derringer in Home Furnishings | Permalink | No comments
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