Leigh Bagley creates some of most fun and vibrant geometric prints I’ve seen. The Edinburgh-based artist has a keen eye when it comes to color choices that he uses in his limited edition prints and greeting cards. The repetitive patterns and hues that he implements make my modern art-loving heart really happy.
This art project by Emily Grundon would probably be perfect for our Skim Milk column but I couldn’t wait. Called Nonspace, the projects aims to highlight the architectural geometry of space through a study of light and shadow. Looking to the corners, Emily puts the focus on the lines and angles of the art gallery itself – as opposed to that displayed within it. She hopes to draw more interest to the details that often go unnoticed, and as she says, “hopefully creating a quiet but intriguing view of the simplicity and value of architecture.”
This month, Design Store(y) goes a little farther downtown, and across the bridge, to brownstone-filled Brooklyn to tour Module R, an architect-owned and curated enterprise that specializes in, you guessed it, modular art and design products. Indeed, all the items in this red-fronted shop on the border of Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill can be reconfigured, customized, stacked, nested, and otherwise personalized. That’s what we call focus. We chatted with the man behind the movable pieces, owner Donald Rattner.
We stumbled upon the work of Christopher Marley while at High Point Market this year and we’re sure glad we did. His Pheromone collection incorporates everything from insects, fossils, crystals, and even feathers. For 15 years, he has been collecting and arranging these pieces by hand. Each insect or object is laid out symmetrically and become studies in both color and scale.
It’s hard to believe that each one of these used car tires is hand-carved by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. The collection of tires features intricate pattern work with various motifs, like floral and Art Deco. He does an incredible job working with the original shape of each tire when designing each pattern. I can’t imagine how much time and patience each one took.
Hosted in Milan’s Ventura Lambrate, RCA Paradise challenged students to “contemplate the discovery of something or somewhere more wondrous.” The products they presented are all inspired by a “quest for a better future.”
These paintings by Kristy Gammill, which are literally dripping with color, are making the rounds on Pinterest art boards of late. They’re sort of impressionist meets abstract, with a bit of ethnic patterning thrown in. The mix of bright and pretty colors, with a pop of neon, make them an appealing candidate for a Colourlovers palette workup.
Hesus is a rocking horse that gets back to basics. Designed by J.Key Schneyorson, it’s built based on the repeated shape of the sector of a circle but at various scales.
This week’s Design Milk Dairy roundup features our favorite geometric shape: the triangle. And where better to have a triangle than on your iPhone. Here are some of our favorite triangle-covered iPhone cases over on Society6.
You might remember that last year I was asked to be a part of an event called Break-Down: Design in Your Hands with Stylefactory at Bobby Berk Home in Soho and it was really successful – we had somewhere around 400 people come through the store. This year, I decided I really wanted to plan my own event and Bobby agreed to host it again this year, so I would like to invite you to the first (hopefully of many) official “Design Milk Presents” event and exhibition: Reinvention; Writing History in Aluminum. I’m so excited!!!
Join Design Milk and Bobby Berk Home celebrate as Brad Ascalon and Frederick McSwain (AM) and Neal Feay Studio unveil a new breed of objects, lighting, and furniture at Bobby Berk Home on Saturday, May 19th from 6-9PM. Through a rich visual vocabulary of texture, color and form, viewers are invited to actively explore and discover the inherent subtleties of each design. Reinvention; Writing History in Aluminum runs through May 27th.
You can RSVP to the event on Facebook or just stop by. Everyone is welcome!
What: Reinvention; Writing History in Aluminum
When: Opening – Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 6-9 PM; Exhibition – May 19-27, 2012
Where: Bobby Berk Home Soho, 59 Crosby Street, New York, NY
A special press preview will be held on Sunday, May 20th from 9:30 to 10:30 AM where you can speak with the designers and Neal Feay Studio. Please RSVP for the press event to info@design-milk.com.
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