Creative Boom

AUGUST 7, 2024

Who doesn't love an art fair or creative market? They're a great way to find cool, quirky, and unique pieces: everything from limited edition prints, postcards, greeting cards, handmade jewellery, candles, or even full paintings and sculptures. In fact, it's pretty much a universal rule. Perhaps you're giving off the wrong vibes.

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Marketing Marketing Artist Illustrator 483

Design Milk

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In the name of examining creation and impermanence, Abarbanel uses forms and natural patterns evocative of biological, botanical, geological, and even mechanical structures. ” Mega Reef 02, seen above, was commissioned by Art in Embassies of the U.S. Department of State for the lobby of a new U.S.

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Sculpture Art Patterns Exhibition 131

Design You Trust

MARCH 31, 2023

Asya Kozina, a Ukrainian contemporary artist, has gained international recognition for her unique talent in creating intricate and detailed sculptural headpieces out of paper. Her exquisite pieces of art can be worn on the head like a wig, and they showcase the beauty and versatility of paper as a medium.

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Sculpture Arts and Crafts Art Patterns 98

Design Milk

JUNE 11, 2024

Amidst the stately Georgian homes of Forest Hill in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, stands a square house that’s a work of art designed by architectural firm PARTISANS. Canvas House’s innovative design and sculptural facade set it apart, making it a noteworthy addition to Toronto’s architectural landscape.

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Sculpture Architecture Patterns Art 105

Colossal

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The husband-wife duo carves the soft wood of the copal tree into fantastical creatures that reference Mesoamerican spirituality and Mexican folk art, including the sculptures known as alebrijes. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Sculpture Patterns Animation Art 73

Colossal

AUGUST 13, 2024

.” All images © Patrick Cabral, shared with permission Elaborate paper sculptures continue to emerge from Patrick Cabral ’s Manila studio, including a roiling cockfight that took more than a year to complete. Layers of lace-like patterns, stripes, and other frills adorn the birds shown pre-fight with wings splayed and claws bared.

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Sculpture Textures Patterns Artist 88

Design Milk

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Created with a geometric pattern exhibiting a color block design, this mirror is crafted from 16 aluminum prisms and blue adhesive opaque vinyl, creating an optical illusion of striped rectangular prisms depending on which angle the reflective artwork is orientated. Photo: Courtesy P.P.OW Our ancestors pay the price for who we are.”

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Arts and Crafts Art Sculpture Gallery 123

Colossal

JUNE 1, 2023

All images © Snøhetta and Blanton Museum of Art, shared with permission. Photo by Sloan Breeden Photography The home of Ellsworth Kelly’s iconic modernist chapel titled “ Austin ,” the Blanton Museum of Art has expanded its outdoor art environment with a sculptural installation by Snøhetta.

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Sculpture Art Architecture Publication 87

Creative Boom

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Previously, we've looked at how a love of travel has shaped her art , but in her new collaboration with Lille-based company Babel Brune, she's keeping things closer to home. It is also a testament to personal creative exploration, as the patterns are born from my experiments and drawings beyond commissioned work."

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Arts and Crafts Patterns Travel Artist 424

We And The Color

JULY 25, 2024

Take Cristina Córdova’s online course and learn how to create figurative ceramic sculptures. If you’re an artist, sculptor, or ceramist eager to elevate your craft, Cristina Córdova’s online course on figure ceramic sculpture is a treasure trove of expertise and inspiration. Subscribe to our newsletter!

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Sculpture Arts and Crafts Artist Art 70

Design Milk

JANUARY 4, 2024

Daria Vasilkova , of the Art Group , alongside Oksana Zavarzina and Evgeny Schevchenko, of LakeandWalls , has given life to a quirky, colorful apartment that stands as the epitome of her distinctive style. The red continues throughout the living room covering the baseboard molding and a custom mirror.

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Patterns Color Sports Sculpture 119

Colossal

MAY 16, 2023

All images © Jonathan Hateley, shared with permission Immersed in nature, female figures dance, reflect, and rest in Jonathan Hateley ’s limber bronze sculptures. The subjects commune with their surroundings, greeting the sun or leaning into the wind and merging with patterns of foliage or lichen.

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Sculpture Gallery Art Artist 96

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Patterns of light based, floating in a sea of darkness. Villareal dropped his first NFTs as 1,024 unique tokens collectively titled Cosmic Reef on the Art Blocks platform. How did you first use technology in your art? What do you think is the purpose of art in today's increasingly hectic world?

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Artist Art Digital Coding 470

Colossal

MAY 6, 2024

For French artistic duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel , notions of interlaced strands, patterns, ecosystems, and vessels shape their solo exhibition, T he Weaver and the Spoke, at Antenna Space in Shanghai. Dewar and Gicquel toy with the distinctions between art and function. The Weaver and the Spoke continues through May 11. .

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Sculpture Arts and Crafts Fine Art Art 78

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Usually, when you see darker-themed art, it's also coloured in a way that it feels dark and almost unnerving with heavy blacks, reds and the like. He can and does work digitally if the project requires it, but in his heart, he's devoted to watercolour, gouache, acrylics, oils and even sculpture.

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Illustrator Illustration Textures Theme 464

Colossal

AUGUST 28, 2024

All images © Ann Weber, courtesy of Palos Verdes Art Center, shared with permission From scraps of found cardboard, Ann Weber constructs billowing forms that rise in vibrant patterns—almost figure-like—to greet us. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Sculpture Exhibition Artist Art 79

Colossal

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A former product designer turned bead artist, Jan Huling begins each sculpture with a blank form in the shape of a miniature horse, giant praying mantis, and eager monkey perched on a box. via Women’s Art ). “Hero” (2019), 27 x 22 x 8 inches. All images © Jan Huling, shared with permission.

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Sculpture Color Animation Gallery 93

Colossal

MARCH 30, 2023

Photo by Alix Joiret The soft pile of tufted yarn meets vibrant color in Brussels-based artist Shishi San ’s bold sculptures. Inspired by the shape, hues, and patterns of Chinese vases, she began a series of nine voluminous vessels that draw on traditional motifs in a collection titled Fluffy.

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Sculpture Color Patterns Artist 91

Design Milk

JULY 4, 2022

The sculptures are Ngo’s own “memory palaces,” which bring back her nostalgia for the color palettes, pixelations, hazy gradients, and atmospheres of favorite games like ´Pokémon and Animal Crossing.

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Sculpture Print Art Color 114

Colossal

APRIL 12, 2023

All images © Bayne Peterson, courtesy of the artist and Kristen Lorello, NY, shared with permission As artist Bayne Peterson sketches the voluptuous and sinuous shapes of what will become his vibrant wooden sculptures, he takes cues from organic movement. “I’m thinking less, ‘what does nature look like?’

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Sculpture Patterns Artist Animation 93

Design Milk

APRIL 12, 2024

Known for the origami-inspired technique she uses to transform paintings into wall sculptures, Los Angeles-based artist Susan Maddux’s creativity is incredible to experience. As Maddux explains it, the canvas is painted, folded, and unfolded many times as she experiments with proportion and patterning.

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Art Patterns Artist Travel 119

BP&O

APRIL 3, 2023

This annual migration pattern is one of the many awe-inspiring natural spectacles that make the city so unique. Every year an impressive 40,000 humpback whales travel along the Sydney coastline.

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Sculpture Travel Patterns Brand 215

Colossal

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“ My work is as much an abstract sculpture or design that contains some spirit of life in general, and the bird form seems like a pure way to represent this to me,” he tells Colossal. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. Find more of his work on Instagram.

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Sculpture Artist Exhibition Art 90

Colossal

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Melding the decadence of Art Nouveau and the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland , artist Carol Long ( previously ) transforms humble clay vessels with an array of small spheres, curled handles, and densely laid stripes. All images © Carol Long, shared with permission.

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Sculpture Textures Patterns Artist 78

Design Milk

MAY 5, 2022

Among the new program is Powerful Patterns , an exhibit created in collaboration with Danish fashion designer, artist, and musician Henrik Vibskov. The exhibit celebrates the museum’s most spirited and colorful patterns, like Galleria (pictured above) – a delightfully curvy pattern created by textile designer Barbara Brown in the late 1960s.

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Patterns Inspiration Arts and Crafts Color 94

Design Milk

AUGUST 3, 2021

We’ve long been fans of LA-based artist Joshua Abarbanel , who I recently started following on “The Gram” There’s something mesmerizing about his intricate, layered laser-cut wood sculptures that captivate. See more of his nature-inspired work here. He says: Hull 04, detail.

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Sculpture Exhibition Production Artist 126

Design Milk

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Danish designers Laura Bilde and Linnea Blæhr work to combine functionality and sculptural expression through materials and shapes, bringing together tactility, sensuousness, and enticement for the end result. The six carpet patterns within the collection celebrate talented female artists who have paved the way for those in the future.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Sculpture Patterns 134

Design Milk

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Personally, nothing brings me more joy than sharing great makers and artful objects while supporting the artisans behind their creation. Display the slightly sculptural work on its own to fill a nook, within a cluster of similar pieces for a greater tablescape, or in contrast with darker forms to pull focus.

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Sculpture Color Textures Interior Design 74

Colossal

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For decades, the artist has harbored a fascination with the repetitive, complex patterns of single-cell organisms and the delicately rendered illustrations of Ernst Haeckel , an attraction that manifests in his latest sculptures. . “There’s nothing unnatural about mechanical components,” Jeremy Mayer says.

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Manufacturing Sculpture Artist Patterns 101

Colossal

JULY 26, 2023

“I was also inspired by Ai Weiwei ’s ‘Circle of Animals’ sculpture recreating the 12 animal heads of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing.” Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. “Instead of Year of the Tiger, it would be el Año del Jaguar. .”

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Patterns Animation Artist Sculpture 69

Colossal

OCTOBER 2, 2023

All images © Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, shared with permission In a celebration of global cultural fusion, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA upends Western art historical portrayals of African customs in vibrant mixed-media collages and sculptures ( previously ). Shonibare says: I discovered that Picasso had a collection of African art.

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Exhibition Gallery Sculpture Patterns 81

Colossal

JULY 1, 2024

All images © Paul Villinski, courtesy of the artist and Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, shared with permission From found objects like aluminum cans, bottles, knives, and vinyl records, Paul Villinski frames myriad interpretations of flight. Flight Patterns continues through August 18 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Sculpture Patterns Exhibition Artist 82

Colossal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

All images courtesy of Musée des Arts Décoratifs, shared with permission Water, skeletons, and the origins of life usher in a major retrospective of the exquisite, otherworldly garments of Iris van Herpen ( previously ). Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Fashion Art Sculpture Exhibition 94

Colossal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Beginning with a copper armature, the North Carolina-based artist stretches vintage paper or patterns of scanned objects across a minimal metal form and stitches the edges together into a geometric patchwork. via Women’s Art ). Constellations, butterflies, and bold checkered prints overlay the animalistic forms by Anne Lemanski.

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Patterns Animation Print Artist 94

Colossal

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Swooping overhead and swelling up from the foundation, the monochromatic interior of the Haikou Gaoxingli Insun Cinema & Coffee Bar is animated by light and shadow, a jack-on-jack masonry pattern, and elegant curves to invoke movement. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month.

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Sculpture Architecture Patterns Animation 78

Inspiration Feed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

She has given us color, texture, line, form, shape, balance and patterns. And from all of these come human art forms like drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, mosaics, architecture, and graphics. Mother Nature is actually pretty awesome. And nature is ambiguous too.…

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Web Design Web Design Sculpture Textures 52

Colossal

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Seoul-based artist Yeesookyung ( previously ) fuses Korean and Japanese craft traditions in her elegant, gilded sculptures. Blending ornately patterned vessels with deities and animals, the delicate assemblages meld shards of discarded ceramic into new forms with bulbous sides, halved figures, and drips of metallic epoxy.

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Sculpture Arts and Crafts Exhibition Artist 101