Design Milk

JUNE 11, 2024

Canvas House’s innovative design and sculptural facade set it apart, making it a noteworthy addition to Toronto’s architectural landscape. The wave-like movement of the brick ebbs and flows, showcasing both organic forms and natural patterns. Photography by Younes Bounhar.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 10, 2024

If you’re looking to breathe new life into your living room and create a space that reflects your unique style, this guide is packed with inspirational living room décor ideas to suit every home. Bold and Eclectic: Embrace a symphony of patterns, colors, and textures. Play with color and pattern to create a cohesive look.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 4, 2024

A custom metal bookcase in the living room, which holds a mix of books, objects, and plants, is mounted onto black and white patterned Reda tiles. A cobalt blue cabinet clad in Reda’s Sport 60’s tiles lives under a sculptural mirror by Elisaveta Solonitsyna, also made of ceramics by Reda.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We love it when a specific illustrator's inspirations and influences have been distilled down into their unique illustration work." We have recently signed an artist, Seo Hyojung, who uses coding practices to create beautiful patterns based on mathematical formulas.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Inspired by the Porsche Macan’s intricate body detailing, thousands of perforations punctuate the aluminum skin. By day, sunlight filters through, creating ever-changing patterns of light and shadow. One of the pavilion’s most dynamic features is its play with light.

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Design Milk

JULY 19, 2024

There, Sende was encouraged to work with different media and techniques, finding his sweet spot in modularity, visual patterns, optical effects, light phenomena, and kinetic experiences. Your interests will be peaked by the stories each piece tells. Where will his talents land next?

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Design Milk

MARCH 27, 2025

Psychedelic patterns, plush carpets, and syncopated beats are among the pop-culture elements plucked from the 1970s that continue to captivate global audiences with the same nostalgia-packed power that crackling vinyl has over a new generation finding its groove.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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. This throw blanket takes inspiration from the bold, graphic designs of French artist Sonia Delaunay and translates those elements into a geometric color-blocked pattern.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 4, 2023

Our cells became detailed, sculptural balloons. Our custom-designed typeface became vastly customisable with each letterform being able to be split at any point." "Gradient atmospheres are an extension of the colour palette, providing more texture within the layouts without being as visually dominating as 3D cells or patterns."

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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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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It is also a testament to personal creative exploration, as the patterns are born from my experiments and drawings beyond commissioned work." After initially selecting the themes and styles together, she was largely left to her own devices, besides the odd consultation on colours and pattern designs.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We love it when a specific illustrator's inspirations and influences have been distilled down into their unique illustration work." We have recently signed an artist, Seo Hyojung, who uses coding practices to create beautiful patterns based on mathematical formulas.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 3, 2023

We spent a happy hour chatting with Nolan to discover more about her creative passions, inspirations and experience of working for the respected design studio. Nolan recently sat down with Creative Boom to share more about her creative process and how she finds inspiration from fashion, art, and literature. Can you tell me about them?

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Her origami-inspired technique transforms paintings into oversized wall sculptures through experimentation with proportion and patterning. 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.

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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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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Like a miniature, imaginary city, these one-of-a-kind creations draw inspiration from architectural elements that have been smoothed over in modern times. Handcrafted from metal and wood, each piece is painstakingly shaped using artisanal patterns, custom molds, and even homemade tools that achieve the intricate details that define them.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Handcrafted from wool felt in forest green, white and mustard, this pennant flag would be a great addition to a child's bedroom, and inspire their sense of adventure. Mini Stories was inspired by the studio's love of history and story-telling, and they delve into the back stories of many of the common things that surround us.

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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. It hopes to bring artists, curators and international and local communities together in a shared vision that takes the desert as its inspiration.

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Design Milk

MARCH 25, 2022

Between the industrial nature of the powder-coated steel material and its modern curves and color ways, Lennart Lauren’s Paperthin Bench is oozing with color inspiration. Another key in Buckley’s color manual – be mindful of patterns. This ultra-modern bench will be the fun and stylish focal point of any room you put it in.

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

After seeing the colors she chose, we got inspired to find ways to bring them into our own homes. Take a look at 8 picks for the home inspired by fashion muse, Iris Apfel. Pop in any color of candles you want to create a cool tablescape with this modern + sculptural design in black. U Candle Holder by Tina Frey Designs.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

How AI-Powered Generative Design Works The Impact on Visual Design Applications of AI-Powered Generative Design The Future of AI in Design Challenges and Ethical Considerations Why AI-Powered Generative Design is One of the Top Visual Trends for 2025 Trend 3: Biophilic Design and Nature-Inspired Aesthetics What is Biophilic Design?

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Design Milk

JANUARY 8, 2024

A sculptural reception table pulls focus then moves the eye opposite to a sinuous curve wrapping around the waiting area and casual seating, which is flooded with daylight. The intervention is composed of 5 layers of 5mm thick brown glass that creates a halo effect when activated by daylight.

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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. I carry color within me,” Arao adds.

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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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Design Milk

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Maybe it’s the range of soft color options or the organic topiary-like shape, but the Sculptural Candle Holder ($74) by Extra&Ordinary Design is a perfect match for Tim Burton’s eerily cookie cutter suburban neighborhood. Small Sculptural Candle Holder by Extra&Ordinary Design. Photo: Still from Edward Scissorhands.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Photo: Matthew Gordon Photo: Matthew Gordon For their January drop, Wooj is leaning into textures found in nature and biomorphic forms inspired by previous designs. The new Coral Lamp takes inspiration from the cerebral-looking brain coral, as well as the one-of-a-kind pattern of a fingerprint.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Installation view, Antonio Santín, MARC STRAUS Gallery, New York I’m Only Happy When It Rains, 2023 I’m Only Happy When It Rains, 2023 (detail) I’m Only Happy When It Rains, 2023 (detail) The largest paintings here span over seven feet across and depict geometric and floral patterned rugs in space.

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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. Orange Cross Floating Framed Textile Artwork 1X004 by Amelia Ayerst.

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Design Milk

AUGUST 16, 2024

David Oldroyd Oldroyd’s own inspirations take many forms, yet his love of classical music, nurtured by his parents, is a mainstay. 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.” Today, David Oldroyd joins us for Friday Five !

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Design Milk

AUGUST 2, 2022

While some area rugs are designed to play a supporting role in your home’s interior, bridging the gaps between decorative elements to tie the room together – art inspired rugs by Ruggism are made to take center stage. This print inspired by the imaginative world of Roald Dahl plays up the bright, primary color palette in Magic Circles 2.0,

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A Lighting Collection Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Architecture This series includes representations of some of the architect’s original masterpieces in the form of lighting, honing in on Wright’s refined style that highlights the relationships between natural and manmade elements. It’s now available in four new colorways.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Archiproducts – an online portal and community for inspiration or sourcing of all things architecture, product, and design – is one of many key players facilitating this endeavor. Italia , and Trame di Pietra , with artwork by rising Pugliese photographer Piero Percoco in correspondence with each booth.

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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. “We precisely placed bricks to look like waves,” the studio says in a statement.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It features a sculptural shape that offers the perfect amount of support through its curves and contours, instead of various mechanisms to adjust. LA-based Elyse Graham handcrafts a collection of plaster vessels that have patterns with soft edges and flowing, organic designs. Elyse Graham Shares the Process Behind the Hydro Collection.

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