icons, surface design, the crafted object
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...
surface design, the crafted object, tutorials
Well OK OK OK, Gestalt NEARLY rhymes with Salt, but it depends a bit on where you live in the world and who taught you about it. Anyway the question really is, what IS Gestalt and why is it important to design? Gestalt theory came about in the 1920s when a group of...
opinion, small biz, the crafted object
{all images are linked to their respective shops} There has been been a debate raging ever since Etsy decided to change its policies on what constituted ‘handmade’ late last year. Those policies now allow designers and makers to outsource a substantial...