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Wild Animals by Rop van Mierlo

franklintill — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:46:26 +0000

Wild Animals is a self-published book by graphic designer Rop van Mierlo who recently won the Dutch Design Awards for ‘Best Graphic Design’. His playful illustrations are made with water colours to create wild and colourful creatures from blotched paint.

Extra Ordinary Gentlemen

franklintill — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:07:42 +0000

Extra Ordinary Gentlemen is a film collaboration with Nick Knight, stylist Alister Mackie and artist duo LucyandBart. The film captures a series of hand crafted sculptural body extensions in a fusion of craft, fashion and installation art. Watch the video here

Stretch Out Home Wear by Jolien Hanemaai

franklintill — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:17:29 +0000

Jolien Hanemaai’s Stretch Out Home Wear is a portable indoor tent kit which allows you to construct your own personal micro shelter whenever and wherever you want. The kit consists of tent poles, textile panels and accessories to make your tent feel like home. Watch her video here

Trade Union by Rachel Griffin

franklintill — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:09:32 +0000

Fascinated by the divide between craft and industry, Rachel Griffin has created a series of traditionally woven baskets called Trade Union. Using a combination of willow, reed and a industrially-produced biodegradable plastic made from potato starch, the project explores the bridge between industrial chemistry and traditional techniques.

CMYK LAMP by Dennis Parren

franklintill — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:00:37 +0000

Dennis Parren’s CMYK light plays with the mystery of light and colour. “It is the light that colours the world” says Parren. The lamp creates a pattern of lines in cyan, magenta and yellow light projected from the shade and onto the ceiling and walls. “Designed not to be understood but to show that light is the only rightful owner of colour.”

Chen Chen

franklintill — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:19:36 +0000

Brooklyn based artist and product designer Chen Chen creates wondrous objects exploring material and textile contrasts. From vases made with expanding polyurethane foam trapped within fabric, glass and rope to stones embedded in cement. Each piece beautifully communicates a story about it’s material composition.

Sarah Maycock

franklintill — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:57:50 +0000

London based illustrator and artist Sarah Maycock creates whimsical illustrations using water-colour, mixed media, typography and print. Her Bits and Bobs design for iPad app Granimator allows users to interact with her work via a digital collage kit, playing with offcuts and colour tests to create abstract and playful wallpapers.

Job Dispensers by Francois Dumas & Erasmus Scherjon

franklintill — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:48:05 +0000

Job Dispensers by Francois Dumas & Erasmus Scherjon presented a small-scale production system where the audience became both the worker as well as the consumer. After paying an exploitation fee to the manager visitors set to work with, tools, molds and templates on a small production line. Once they had completed a piece of work they got paid and their work was sold in the shop.

Alex McLeod

franklintill — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:32:36 +0000

Hyper-realistic, fantastical computer generated 3D worlds are constructed by Canadian illustrator, Alex McLeod. Inspired by romantic landscape paintings, McLeod’s otherworldly dystopias act as hybrid landscapes that seamlessly combine the past and present, real and virtual, natural and artificial.

Andreas Verheijen

franklintill — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:13:33 +0000

Flower engineer Andreas Verheijen dreams up proposals for new varieties of botanical hybrids. His Engineering Series should be primarily been seen as a floral laboratory, experimenting with colour, shape and texture. Engineering is an ongoing project for Verheijen, his wondrous sculptural creations often resemble mystical creatures or surreal exotic beasts.