Design Milk

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Led by a renowned team consisting of Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto , landscape designer Christophe Gautrand , and interior architect Gwenaël Nicolas , the collaborative design includes a new pavilion of stone and glass, nestled within a public sculpture garden that champions local biodiversity. Photography by Raul Cabrera.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For its debut, MUSE features original works by celebrated Catalan-Spanish artist Joan Miró. It’s a true feast for the senses, as artistic presentation is found not only on the plates but on the walls too. Layers of texture make the compact restaurant seem larger. Subtle curves grace furnishings upholstered in plush velvet.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

With a background as a tattoo artist, Tom Strom is an emerging American illustrator whose images will draw you in and perhaps give you a little scare. 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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Creative Boom

MARCH 23, 2023

Originally from Wuhan, Flora moved to New York four years ago to chase her artistic ambitions. Ever since I was a child, I've always dreamed of becoming an artist," she tells Creative Boom. "I This creative freedom led to Flora taking her drawings, sculptures and paintings and applying them to American art schools.

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Creative Boom

JULY 3, 2023

Acclaimed designer, architect and visual artist Simone Brewster is here to boldly challenge those assumptions in a new design commission, The Shape of Things , at NOW Gallery in Greenwich, London. It draws on the concept of 'intimate architecture': the effect of texture and three-dimensional form on memory and emotion.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 23, 2023

But for digital artist and illustration graduate Lily Lambie-Kiernan, food is an immensely rich source of broader cultural imagery. And she explores these meanings in her lurid yet softly textured editorial work for magazines and websites. "I Sometimes the colours and textures take the lead on a food illustration project," she adds.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 16, 2024

From thousands of plastic bags, nets, and hanks of yarn, Indonesian artist Mulyana ( previously ) illuminates the fragility of marine ecosystems. Mulyana painstakingly twists, knots, and wraps plastic netting, cable wire, and plastic yarn into sculptures and wall hangings resembling coral and cartoonish sea creatures.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For the Collaborative Series, the brand is tapping into these relationships and flexing their own creative skills in tandem with ceramicists, industrial designers, and artists. For the series, her signature celestial ceramic half-moon shaped sculptures are reinterpreted as functional cabinet pulls on two large scale cabinets.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

Originally from China, Megan Du is a London-based artist studying illustration at the University of the Arts London. Dreams are never straightforward things to achieve, though, and it was while pursuing her artistic aspirations in her home country that she ran into obstacles. "I Speaking of colours, bright pink is Megan's favourite.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

© Alicja Kozłowska Polish artist Alicja Kozłowska goes to great lengths to create marvellously mundane objects to highlight mass consumption and overproduction. Some people may underestimate the power of embroidery, yet textile artist Alicja Kozłowska is here to prove that quite literally anything is possible with a needle and some material.

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Design Milk

MAY 23, 2024

Brick Stools, Table, and Chandelier Brick Stools, Table, Chandelier, Chairs, and Hanging Mirror Comprising a chandelier, benches, a desk, chairs, a coffee table, stools, a mural, and sculptural totems, as well as standing and wall mirrors, Wubben’s functional art balances utility with aesthetics for a design imbued with purpose and meaning.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 9, 2023

Courtesy of DCG and the Artist On the eve of his upcoming solo exhibition 'Let This Be A Sign', Nigerian artist, painter and sculptor Samson Bakare tells Creative Boom about his inspirations, process and unique approach to re-envisioning the history of Africa. Courtesy of DCG and the Artist Songs of Hope, 2023 © Samson Bakare.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2024

Hideki's team also crafted sculptures that surround the car, which are physically identical but use internal lighting with different textures to represent the idea of personalisation. The work features a to-scale representation of the LF-ZC, powered by solar energy captured through organic photovoltaic cells.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Susan Maddux Shares Her Vintage Textiles, Art Collection + More Los Angeles-based artist Susan Maddux makes works that are an incredible three-dimensional experience drawing. Her origami-inspired technique transforms paintings into oversized wall sculptures through experimentation with proportion and patterning.

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Design Milk

MAY 7, 2024

Devotion is the loom with which artists weave craft, steadfastness, and personal conviction, for a meaningful creative practice. Filipino-American artist Paolo Arao explores this concept – metaphorically and physically – with his second solo exhibition on view at the David B. Smith Gallery until May 11.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 30, 2022

Growing an audience, Nikita started receiving commissions, and it wasn't long until he began working with his favourite music artists and exhibiting worldwide. Then, everything is "thrown" into 3D software for him to start picking the colours and textures. "I I often use photographs I make as textures. And there we have it.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Photo: Courtesy Mennour Gallery Prismes et miroirs: Haut-relief-DBPF by Daniel Buren Conceptual artist Daniel Buren is known for his minimalist mirror motifs. The artist assembled and reworked various pieces together to make the bird house look like a natural form, then beautifully embellished the piece in an ultramarine blue hue.

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Sangmin Oh I’m fascinated by this artist/designer who creates the most unusual sculptures out of textiles. He is pushing the boundaries on what you can do with fabrics, manipulating them into different textures and freeform shapes.

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Design Milk

JUNE 17, 2022

The display featured the first Lexus dedicated battery-electric model – Lexus RZ – as a suspended wire-frame sculpture along with colorful pendant lights created in collaboration between Germane, Aqua Creations, Lexus. This may be considered controversial, but I never call myself an artist. Today, Germane is joining us for Friday Five!

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 23, 2023

I think a great deal of my engineering background has allowed me to become the artist I am today. It's not a new commonality either, as he points out that even during the Renaissance, many artistic breakthroughs came from mathematical sources. This has also made it easier for him to pick up skills across 3D modelling and animation.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Folk and Flora Collection , designed by artist and vintage curator Carmen Nash of Loft and Thought for Troy Lighting , is earthy elegance embodied. Similar to how stories can play off of one another, the collection’s lamp designs differ while also forming a cohesive group that feels related, all thanks to tones and textures.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Multi-hyphenate artist Christopher Gentner – a formally trained metalsmith responsible for re-creating Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House gates – employs his expertise and Chicago-based studio in an exclusive collaboration with Kelly Wearstler to debut Mock , his first collection for her digital Gallery.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Unlike minimalism, which strives for visual restraint, maximalism encourages designers to layer textures, combine multiple styles, and create a sense of abundance. A minimalist logo with a splash of maximalist color or texture gives brands a modern yet bold identity.

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Design Milk

MAY 25, 2023

The Flower Power collection comprises 13 sculptural chairs and benches inspired by tropical flora seen in the mountains and forests surrounding Wolston’s adopted Colombian home. Courtesy of the artist and The Future Perfect. Others are embellished with oversized flowers and leaves that he sculpted and molded by hand.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The former Schellens Fabriek in Eindhoven became Something.bigger for Dutch Design Week 2023 – a creative hub for designers, artists, and makers as residents and host to Nothing Happens If Nothing Happens by the digital and physical design platform Isola.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Through these less-than-perfect qualities, he’s able to turn what was once considered flawed into gallery-worthy sculptures. Appiagyei embraces the individually of each piece in his practice, exploring its rawness and texture. All of these elements and more come together to push the artist forward in his creative journey.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This month in New York, artist Antonio Santín presents shockingly hyperreal oil paintings that depict life-size undulating ornate rugs. Each painting is also a play between illusion and real physical depth: though the folds of the rugs are an illusion, the paint itself is sculptural. Detail photographs by David Behringer.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Throughout her career, Ju’s work has swing between scales and creative disciplines, borrowing from sculpture and architecture to create unique brand experiences that are functional and visually enticing. You can sense the artist’s presence in every stroke. Art/Photo: Miki Kim 1.

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Design Milk

JUNE 15, 2021

San Francisco-based Zai Divecha is an artist transforming plain white paper into geometric works made by repetitive folds and pleats. The monochromatic palette makes the patterns and textures pop simply by how the light hits them, hopefully leaving viewers feeling “centered, quiet and focused.”

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Design Milk

MAY 23, 2022

This collection also highlights independent artists, who create illustrations to be featured on the furniture. These sculptural pebble-like pendants from ANDlight seem to move within the space around them, presenting differently from every angle. Casa Kids had a great show this year, featuring thoughtful storage for kids as they grow.

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Design Milk

MAY 16, 2024

Another set of sitting lamps, featuring sculptural glass shapes on unglazed ceramic bases, are displayed on tables and floors. These pieces, created by glass artist Nancy Callan in collaboration with Adelman, use black, clear, and gold-leaf covered glass. Their open flames and swinging nature introduce an element of unpredictability.

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Design Milk

JULY 29, 2022

Studio Pretext crafts modern, sculptural mugs out of raw ceramic, bringing an earthy look and natural texture to your kitchen and tabletop. Accented by hand built geometric forms in lieu of conventional curved handles, Studio Pretext mugs are equal parts simple, yet sculptural staples artfully designed for daily use.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A symphony of rich textures play while gossamers dance in the sunlight of Ulla Johnson’s Los Angeles, California, flagship store designed by Kelly Wearstler whose repertoire of collaborations with furniture makers, craftsmen, and artisans give the space its local gusto. The shift adds to the impact of revisiting a double-height volume.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 10, 2022

He is also an avid collector of large-scale art, and his plans for a sculpture trail across the estate really appealed to our fundamental belief in the need for places to have culture at their heart.". There's a particular smell, a particular colour to the low glancing light and a particular texture to the stone.

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Design Milk

JUNE 7, 2023

The limited edition series was created by Ezra Ardolino, founder and designer of digital fabrication studio Timbur , that produces large, custom commissions for artists and brands. N90N is inspired by Ardolino’s overall fascination with geometric shapes and his interest in the limits of sculptural wood formations.

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Design Milk

APRIL 13, 2023

The space was once a private library before becoming an artist’s studio, prior to du Chalard calling it home. Paintings, sculpture, photographs, textile; I connect with many mediums. Paintings, sculpture, photographs, textile; I connect with many mediums. I feel similarly about furniture.

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