West Elm and Shaw Contract have teamed up to create a rug collection with residential warmth and commercial durability. West Elm x Shaw Contract fills in another missing piece to the hybrid work/home life we’ve been living. And it also proves workspaces can be made to feel more livable. It began when West Elm approached Shaw Contract to...
“All That Has Come Before” (2022). All images © Hanna Lee Joshi, shared with permission With long, elegant fingers and brawny limbs, the women that define Hanna Lee Joshi’s gouache and colored pencil works move through the unknown and indiscernible with strength. The Vancouver-based artist renders anonymous figures in motion, whether dancing together or gracefully gliding through water,...
Image © Ryota Murase. All images courtesy of the Mosaic Tile Museum, shared with permission In the Gifu Prefecture of Japan, a nucleus of creativity blossomed in Kasahara Town, Tajimi City, more than a millennium ago. Known for its history of ceramic production, the region celebrates its distinctive heritage with a spring and autumn festival, a ceramics-themed park,...
June is Pride month, and with it arrives a deluge of Pride-themed designs across industries, each marked to communicate representation to employees and customers alike across the LGBTQIA+ community. Pride is perhaps most openly and vibrantly represented within the tech industry, with the LGBTQIA+ community playing an important role both internally across industry departments and across their user...
All images © Jeremy Mayer, shared with permission Jeremy Mayer challenges the notion that typewriters’ creative output is confined to the written word. The artist scours shops and trash bins near his Bay Area studio for analog processors in disrepair that he then disassembles, sorts, and reconstructs into metallic sculptures. His previous works include symmetrical assemblages, anatomical recreations,...
When you slide into a pair of new sneakers, you probably don’t stop to consider you’re donning the efforts of countless hours of collaboration tying together work of numerous designers, material engineers, and increasingly, 3D modeling specialists spanning cities or even countries. German sporting gear and fashion brand Puma is utilizing photorealistic 3D product rendering and augmented reality...
With warmer weather in full effect, there’s no better time to host a little outdoor soirée of your own. If you’re a Miami dweller like myself, you’ll know that the price we pay for a tropical climate all year round are sporadic rainstorms that often push outdoor festivities indoors – making the right portable lighting (and a flexible...
Tau Lewis. All images courtesy of Phaidon, shared with permission Across nearly 450 pages, PRIME: Art’s Next Generation offers a broad and insightful survey of the Millenials defining the future of the art world. As its title suggests, the massive tome is a primer on the innovative, subversive, and category-defying works that are captivating curators and art professionals....
If you think about how many things our hands touch every day and how many germs that would love to take up residence on our digits, it’s, well, gross. With constant hand-washing comes never-ending dryness. My dry hands go far beyond winter months and 2+ years of a pandemic, as I’ve always been one to constantly freshen up...
In 1928, iconic French artist Yves Klein was born in Nice. The leader of the Nouveau Réalisme art movement and a pioneer of minimalism and performance art, Klein’s work transcended traditional forms of artistic expression, capturing feelings over form. His contributions to the art world are immortalized through his seminal monochromatic paintings and most popularly, through his signature...
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