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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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Brighton-based paper artist Lisa Lloyd pushes her work in new directions with Flux, a fish-themed sculpture created with the help and craftsmanship of printers at Barnard and Westwood. Three-dimensional paper artist Lisa Lloyd takes inspiration from the natural world when creating her beautiful paper sculptures.

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Design Milk

APRIL 1, 2025

The Belgian furniture designer has spent years perfecting his craft, creating pieces that balance raw materiality with sculptural elegance. Crafted from American walnut and burl wood, the Fira Bar Cabinet features four-panel doors made from pictorial root veneer, highlighting an intricate interplay of pattern and texture.

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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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Design Milk

JANUARY 22, 2025

Yet this series of three pieces, designed by Eliza Redmann , were inspired by the sculptural artists experiences after a car accident changed her life forever. Redmann, for example, sees swimming or undulating patterns when she looks at a brick wall, tile floors, or striped shirts.

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Creative Boom

JULY 29, 2024

The international art collective teamLab is taking immersive art to the next level. If you're involved in the creative world, by now you're probably aware of the concept of the immersive art show. But in the art world, nothing stays the same for long. And I've got to say, I was blown away.

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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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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 278

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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Design Milk

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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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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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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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Design Milk

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In fact, the Danish designer characterizes his work as the art of finding the shortest distance between function and aesthetic. Unlike faux stone surface coverings that look too artificial, this unique overlay mimics the natural patterns and textures of travertine. My father was running a small art gallery and was a part-time painter.

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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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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Key Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Design Practices in 2025 The Role of Technology in Sustainable Design The Benefits of Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Design Practices The Future of Sustainable Design Trend 10: Glitch Art and Digital Deconstruction What is Glitch Art? What is Maximalism?

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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 459

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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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2023

In a new show at London's Jealous Gallery, artist Adam Bridgland brings together wild hues, dynamic patterns and the powerful pull of nostalgia in an alluring visual display. We sometimes forget how much of a role lyrics play in our love of popular music.

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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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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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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Stocking Fillers Grumpy Ant plush toy by Aysha Tengiz If you have a friend who makes (or just appreciates) good art, check out the online shop of Aysha Tengiz, a London-based artist working within illustration, animation and textile design. It's packed with great products such as this plushie with a difference.

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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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Design Milk

MARCH 25, 2022

Shop Now >> Use Art, Rugs + Furniture as Anchors. In decorating her color-filled dream home, artist and designer Angela Chrusciaki Blehm did just that, saying “I take color cues from the art in the space and go from there, with a preference for big color blocks in my furniture and walls to complement the art.”

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Design Milk

JANUARY 8, 2024

Can art inserts become a seamless part of the volume?” Visitors make their way to a vestibule seemingly carved out of stone, with ledges that serve as seating for rest and shelves to accommodate shoe storage, before turning the corner to be greeted by an art wall. Can we use this process to create a warm work culture?

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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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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

On show at Eames Fine Art Gallery in London next month, the striking artworks feature women who meet us posed, positioned and postured in a dazzling array of attire that invites us to consider that most portable form of expression – fashion. But they beg the question, what to wear? From the series, Ensemble © Susie Stone.

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Fashion Fine Art Gallery Patterns 326

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Returning this month to Saudi Arabia is a unique art exhibition set in an ancient desert region of the Arabian Peninsula, using only the natural landscape and surroundings as inspiration. Dana Awartani Desert X AlUla 2022, photo by Lance Gerber. The backdrop of the orange desert and the bright blue sky only adds to the drama.

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Design Milk

JUNE 15, 2021

She makes the intricate works by folding or pleating paper to form patterns of light and shadow. The monochromatic palette makes the patterns and textures pop simply by how the light hits them, hopefully leaving viewers feeling “centered, quiet and focused.” Zai Divecha working in studio.

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Design Milk

MAY 7, 2024

Smith Gallery , aptly named Devotion , in a showcase of new textile works alongside collaborative totem sculptures that pull on patrons’ heartstrings. The lyricism of Devotion plays out in textile drawings where geometric patterns are hand stitched into appliquéd patchworks in a symphony of color.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 26, 2021

These CNC-altered works often cut into the objects they contain: wood African sculptures with uncertain authenticity, exotic animal skulls, and the headlight of a Tesla. The “African” sculptures offer the most complex questions. It’s an ever-shifting discovery with every step. Gemsbok Transpose, 2021. Gemsbok Transpose, 2021 (detail).

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Sculpture Exhibition Tourism Art 264

Design Milk

AUGUST 11, 2021

The latest exhibition by German-Iranian artist and designer Siba Sahabi titled “Imaginem Sui” is inspired by the relationship between European and Middle Eastern art and how they have historically influenced each other. With these repetitions of pattern, Sahabi’s sculptural works are reminiscent of Middle Eastern arabesque.

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Exhibition Sculpture Patterns Art 264

Design Milk

JULY 2, 2024

From the gilded molding found in Parisian interiors to the decaying tin ceilings of New York’s postindustrial discotheques, these precious panels build new architectural realities as they marry art and envelope. Gentle lines, bold curves, and undulating volumes create a sculptural interior membrane.

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Arts and Crafts Patterns Architecture Production 306

Design Milk

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A biology student turned typo/graphic design graduate, the designer’s early fascination with microscopes inspired him to magnify and dissect patterns and images in his work – creating the brands’ iconic graphic designs that double as wearable and usable art. “Color is at the heart of everything we do,” says Zuzunaga.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“The Puglia region has always been a place of natural excellence, which has grown thanks to its unique geographical position between Europe and the Mediterranean,” say Enzo Maiorano and Rossella Arena – Co-founder of Archiproducts and Art director of Autentico, and account manager of Archiproducts and event manager for Autentico, respectively.

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Design Milk

AUGUST 16, 2024

As a child I was mesmerized by the swirling patterns of hand-braided cotton area rugs, woven from the last use of hand-me-down fabrics.” I have the perfect arrangement in my living room, sitting at my black satin piano against an undulating white plaster wall sculpture. Today, David Oldroyd joins us for Friday Five !

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 10, 2024

Bold and Eclectic: Embrace a symphony of patterns, colors, and textures. The Art of Layering: Combine overhead lighting with floor lamps, table lamps, and strategically placed sconces to create a warm and inviting atmosphere. Play with color and pattern to create a cohesive look.

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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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