Thursday, 30 December 2010
Camille Cortet
Camille Cortet is a French designer based in Amsterdam that recently graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven. Nature is one of her biggest inspirations when it comes to fashion. More specifically, she is challenged by the idea of transformation and tries to find the parallelisms between animals and humans. The transformation project looks at the way animals change their color and skin or the behaviors they use when they want to capture the attention of their love companions. This includes a series of body-ornaments that are an attempt to adapt animal behaviors to our culture and to create new gestures and new body languages within clothing and ornaments.
Friday, 24 December 2010
itunube
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Claire Scully
Claire Scully (AKA The Quiet Revolution) graduated from the MA Communication Design degree at Central Saint Martins in 2006. She takes her inspiration from the often overlooked within everyday life and puts it through a process of mutation and subversion to create a mix of playful humour with sinister undertones of conflict. Using a mix of drawing, painting, screen-printing, photography, digital and more recently moving image, Claire’s personal work depicts the relationship between both herself and nature with her urban environment.
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
New Power Studio
Monday, 29 November 2010
James Long
James Long is best know for his knitwear and use of mixed textiles. His S/S 2011 collection features gradients on loose knits and psychedelic dip-dye shirts, a colourful and laidback collection inspired by a recent trip to Woodstock where spirited people inspired him.
Sunday, 28 November 2010
Manish Arora
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Lorenzo Petrantoni
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Tina Berning
Olivier Kugler
He was led to become an illustrator by comics he read as a child and was also encouraged by his artist father. The artists Hergé, Jean Giraud, Loustal, Otto Dix, George Grosz and David Hockney inspire him. His interest in travel and reportage photography is evident in his work style.
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Nienke Klunder
Nienke Klunder is an artist who offers a provocative look at modern American popular culture. Born in California and raised in the Netherlands, Klunder has used her role as both European and American citizen in providing an outsider/insider stance on pop culture, giving her audience a one-of-a-kind perspective on women and their roles in society. Known for working in series and sequences (what she calls “visual essays”), Nienke Klunder tells stories in a cinematic fashion with her photographs. She also creates sculptures and drawings that are sprinkled into her exhibitions to fully communicate her stories.
Friday, 5 November 2010
C-Neeon
Berlin based fashion company C-Neeon are Clara Leskovar (textile designer) and Doreen Schultz (fashion designer). Their women's wear collections make extensive use of engineered digital prints; previously these were often very geometric and graphic, but recent collections have been more textured or softer.
Petra Borner
Assume Vivid Astro Focus
Assume Vivid Astro Focus is the alias of Brazilian Eli Sudbrack who works from a New York base; it's also the name of the collaborations he does with other people. His own site is here and you can also check out the gallery that represents him (his wallpapers are particularly recommended, although the images are a bit small to really do them justice) and some of his international projects. Minimal this isn't...
Friday, 29 October 2010
Aminaka Wilmont
Aminaka Wilmont is a design duo made up by Maki Aminaka Löfvander and Marcus Wilmont. Maki is from Japan and Sweden, Marcus from Denmark. The designers met while working for Robert Cary-Williams. They studied at Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins and University of Boras. Their design signature includes use of graphic prints together with soft draping and hard edge tailoring.
RAMÓN GURILLO
- Ramon Gurillo is a designer know for his beautifully crafted intricate knitwear. Many of his garments possess a cobweb-like intricacy with a hint of punk, romantic, and sexy modern combined. He shows his craftsmanship by creating all his designs by hand. He works with a wide range of color, but concentrates on black or beige. For Winter 2010 collection he has constructed sculptural garments that consisted of many separates, textured knits, fringe, layering, and deconstruction.
Iris Vanherpen
Iris Vanherpen is a Dutch born and based fashion designer. She graduated with a fashion degree from the HBO, ARTEZ Academy Arnhem, the Netherlands, in 2006, before going on to exhibit her collection ‘Fragile Futurity’ at Tokyo Fashion Week 2007.
Iris has worked on the fashion shows of Alexander McQueen and Viktor & Rolf in Paris. Iris Vanherpen
NOTCOT
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Pringle of Scotland and artist David Shrigley
Pringle of Scotland has commissioned artist David Shrigley to create a humorous short animated film about life behind-the-scenes at Pringle to celebrate the brands return to Milan Fashion Week.
Lacoste shirt by Li Xiaofeng
Friday, 15 October 2010
David Shrigley
Artist David Shrigley, based in Glasgow, is probably best known for his drawings and cartoons, which have been highly influential, particularly on illustration. He's also done music videos for Blur and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and been involved in a wide range of other art projects. There's lots of examples of his work on his website, including this which has made me smile for 14 years.
Friday, 8 October 2010
Angel Chang
Angel Chang is a New York-based designer who works with print and fashion. She has explored the possibilities of smart fabrics and garments, including clothes with built in electronics (that mp3 players dock to, for example - the garment shown has speakers in the hood) and recent print developments such as thermochromatic dyes.
Florence Manlik
Florence Manlik is a French graphic artist and illustrator who works in a highly detailed linear style, combining abstract and figurative elements. Her work features regularly in surveys of contemporary design and she has worked for a wide range of fashion related clients including Robert Normand, Selfridges, Cacharel, Fenchurch and Hermes.
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Lika Vilkova
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Koji Horigome
Shoe label Koji Horigome is based in London, UK and launched in 2008.
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Mary Katrantzou
Erdem Moralioglu
Friday, 24 September 2010
Kustaa saksi
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
The Trend Forecaster's Handbook
The Trend Forecaster’s Handbook, due to be published in October, provides a good overview of the world of trends, trend forecasting and consumer-insight techniques.
This is of particular relevance to L5 TD4Fers doing the Think Tank unit. It was written by Martin Raymond, who is the is a co-founder of The Future Laboratory.
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Marithe + Francois Girbaud
Marithé François Girbaud is an international French based clothing company founded in 1964 by husband and wife, François and Marithé Girbaud.
The company specializes in casual clothing using unique styling and fabrics. Year after year, they redesign and rethink the Jean, inventing new industrial processes, technical designs in harmony with morphology and the movement of the body.
Balenciaga
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Rodarte
Rodarte
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Keep and Share
Monday, 13 September 2010
Abraka
Abraka is Carine Abraham, a French designer who works for a range of different end uses including fashion and pattern design. There's a clever mix of traditional and contemporary imagery going on in her work, with some great illustration and art direction.
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Robert Ryan
Friday, 10 September 2010
Jakob Schlaepfer
Swiss fabric company Jakob Schlaepfer design and manufacture fabric with extraordinary levels of sophistication, quality and originality. They create textiles for couture, pret-a-porter and interiors. If you're looking for a definition of high-end, this is it.
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Lucy and Bart
LucyandBart is an experimental fashion collaboration between (Australian) Lucy McRae and (Dutch) Bart Hess. According to the site, it is "described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression."
If you haven't seen this stuff before, make a cup of tea and prepare to be deeply inspired. You can also check out the individual sites of Lucy McRae and Bart Hess.
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Alison Willoughby
Superbad
Superbad is a web art project by Ben Benjamin, a San Fransisco-based graphic design (not the song by James Brown or the film featuring McLovin). It was started in 1997, and is a sprawling maze of imagery you click on to move through. Sometimes it seems like you're going round and round in circles, sometimes it seems completely chaotic.
If you're interested in web design, most of pages are actually very simple. The site is essentially a huge collection of linked random images and text. It is probably the complete opposite of what Jakob Neilsen promotes on his UseIt site - a rather draconian approach to making web sites as user-friendly as possible.
Monday, 6 September 2010
Inspirational people Li Edelkoort
Brian Dettmer
Brian Dettmer is an American artist who uses books to create art, cutting into the pages to use the illustrations to make 3D pieces. His home page is here and his Flickr space is here. Other examples of paper art can be found on the Web Design Ledger, which has loads of other inspirational stuff for designers in general.
Friday, 3 September 2010
Jo Angell
David David
David David is the fashion label of London based designer David Saunders. It features his signature geometric prints on ready-to-wear garments for women. The image here is from his Spring Summer 2010 collection; earlier designs can be seen here.
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Etro "Cooked" Shirt
Etro, the Italian fashion company, have a presentation on their site that gives a number of different recipes for applying colour to a men's white shirt with food. This includes blueberries (shown above), coffee and salt. No mention of any washing instructions, mind. You can download it as a PDF via the save button at the bottom left-ish of the webpage.
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Maxalot Wallpaper
Maxalot is an Amsterdam-based gallery that regularly commissions surface pattern work for their stunning Exposif collection of Designer Wallpapers, produced in collaboration with leading names in graphic design, photography and illustration. These are available to custom-order for walls of any size or shape. The example above is by Kenzo Miniami; the site also features Timorous Beasties, Florence Manlik and Jon Burgerman.
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Anna-Nicole Ziesche
www.anna-nicoleziesche.com/index.htm