Inspiring : Cheerful Madness {Nathalie Jean-Bart}

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Nathalie Jean-Bart has carved out a career for herself as an animator. But animation wasn’t enough and she started searching for other ways to express herself. So about 10 years ago, she started writing stories and illustrating them. But it still wasn’t...

Icon : Stig Lindberg

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Icon: Stig Lindberg Hellooo!!! I can spend hours ogling and sighing over the beauty of things from artists and makers throughout the ages, especially the amazing proliferation of items and artworks since the industrial revolution. So it is with the incredibly talented...

Inspiring : Heleen Van Buul

surface design

Looking at Heleen Van Buul’s geometric patterns, it may come as no surprise that she originally studied to be an industrial engineer. But she says these patterns are often more inspired by nature than anything else – yes there’s symmetry, but there...

Inspiring : Renato Crepaldi (part 2)

surface design

When I first discovered Renato Crepaldi’s marbled papers, I have to say I swooned a little. The colours and patterns are so deliciously seductive that I couldn’t resist featuring them on the blog in December last year. The technique of marbling paper is...

Surface design : Hey Tangerine {Caitlin Meara}

surface design

I love these large scale repeats by Perth-based designer, Caitlin Meara. There’s something about the possibilities of engineering a cut so that it adds meaning to the clothing that makes me just a bit giddy. Yes, I’d like to look like something out of Star...