Surface Design : Teja Jamilla Williams

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  One of Teja Jamilla Williams’ first memories is of drawing peacocks with teeth. “I remember my parents laughing at me when I’d drawn them (as I just assumed they had teeth in their beaks). More often though, I spent my time as a child drawing...

The crafted object : Elinart – crochet lichen & mould

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Moldy fabric. Enough to send a shudder through my very being and leave me gasping with the tragedy of it all. But Elin Thomas, hailing from Bristol in the UK, utilises the forms of lichen and mold in her delicate crochet, using them to richly decorate  purses,...

Surface Design + Product : Kelly Massey – Pretty Penny Designs

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  What do you do when you have a burning desire to draw and paint, but you also have the uncontrollable urge to make things? Well of course, you do both. Kelly Massey of Pretty Penny Designs not only designs her own fabrics, she then turns the printed fabric into...

Design How-to : Tone

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  Welcome to the next post in my series on the Elements & Principles of Design! The purpose of this series is to get makers/designers/artists of all descriptions to think about exactly what it is about their work that they love, and what could be improved....

Surface design : Sandra Darling

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Sandra Darling is a surface designer who comes with a background as a photographer and painter. Her large format designs are digitally manipulated through colour enhancement and overlay to produce intriguing images that can be and have been used for everything from...