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Amy Cushing + Lara Sparey Explore Intersecting Crafts With DIORAMA Sculptures

Design Milk

DIORAMA – a series of three freestanding mixed media sculptures by artisans Amy Cushing and Lara Sparey – distills a variety of multidimensional scenes into an amalgam of colored glass and black metal artifacts to offer respite from the din of existence. Fresh colorways and designs are in progress due to launch February 24, 2024.

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

Art and fashion have always had a tumultuous and unpredictable relationship. A founding figure in the mid-century New York School movement, Philip Guston helped pioneer a modified form of representational art known as neo-expressionism. Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers.

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Celebrating collaboration: Blackburn’s National Festival of Making

Creative Boom

Four new commissions have come through the festival's Art in Manufacturing programme, positioning Lancashire as a hub of creativity and craft. The Art in Manufacturing residencies began in 2016 and take place between November and July. The finished work will be exhibited at Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery.

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Top 10 Friday Five Posts of 2024

Design Milk

She draws from two decades of experience in the graphic arts to inform fresh objects in the realm of ceramics and surface design. Whats more, her work builds on a storied tradition of West African art and textiles while referencing the Black Arts Movement and the early 20th century Harlem Renaissance.

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A 2,700-Pound Concorde Sculpture Soars Above the Peninsula Hotel London

Design Milk

The new Peninsula Hotel London is likely to become a popular destination of jet setters, which may partially explain why there’s now a 2,700-pound scale sculpture model of the Concorde hanging overhead inside Brooklands , their rooftop dining destination inside the classic-era British aviation and motorsport inspired space.

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Tree.ONE Branches Out to Take a Sculptural Approach to Cleaner Air

Design Milk

Numerous researchers and designers are looking toward biomimicry to tackle pollution and climate change utilizing several mechanisms already found in trees and other photosynthetic species, including architecture and design innovation firm ecoLogicStudio’s towering tree-like sculpture aptly named, Tree.ONE.

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Joe Doucet Serves in Monumental Design for Tennis Hall of Fame Trophy

Design Milk

The sculptural artifact is an exercise in semiotics, distilling the tennis rackets iconic shape into a simple silhouette and blending it with that of an arch here, understood as a signifier for the Arc de Triomphe, which symbolizes victory.