It's great to find a place that offer very original T-Shirts, I like to surprise my friends with the most funny ones. On Fashionable Geek we can find more than T-Shirts, but I think they have a very nice collection of printed shirts. If you like this examples, maybe you can visit their site latter.
This two are my favorites!
Via compradicción.
Do you remember an old post of mine about HYPERBOLIC CROCHET CORAL REEF? Well, this is completely different idea, but in the same textile technic. It's just amazing what it can be created with crochet. I'm starting to think that there are not limits for our imagination.
At etsy, we can find great examples about food on crochet. Some shops like NeedleNoodles or Stripeblue offer to us, a variety of sweets and salty dishes, that have turned in a big tentation. Even if you want to try to do it your self, because they also sell the patterns.
There is only an important problem about this kind of food... and that's it, we cannot eat it!
Via Yatzer.
Ladies and gentlemen please let me introduce to you the great textiles products made by Lama. A very creative design studio that likes to explore new technics and innovate with originals shapes for your home or modern office.
I simply love the rugs of Lama! If you take a look carefully, you will notice that they includes led lights inside the fiber, so now we are talking about "light rugs".
And if you want to go further, for example: you like the Lama products, but you are very creative too, so you want to use their textures on your own project... That is ok. They sell you the texture that you need, in the correctly size. So, they think in everything.
And believe it or not, Lama also have other products out of textiles, I mean furniture and lamps. Take a visit to their site to get involve with the Lama's style.
Wow, I am fascinated.
Via Ponoko blog.
It's been a busy year already with some big (huge!) events and plenty of inspiration, so it takes something special to jump out at you from an inbox full of goodness. If it hadn't been for a tiny but intriguing thumbnail image, I would have skipped straight past any mention of tensile structures, because those two words don't really instill any great level of excitement for me. Now to be fair, there's an entire body of work dedicated to tensile structures, and much of the work is quite beautiful, but when the only example you see in your everyday life is a series of torn, tattered vinyl sails, it's easy to forget how amazing these structures can be.
New York-based Fabric Images has provided a welcome reminder. With a portfolio of corporate imaging, exhibition fit outs, installations and lighting, it's exciting to see how versatile tensile structures can be when they're not merely an afterthought.
From soft and fluffy lights that just beg to be poked, to sleek modern lines that are both lightweight and solid...and that's just the lighting.
I'm especially intrigued by the notion of lightweight, luminous walls, with endless choice for transparency, opacity, pattern and texture. The images below are geared towards a more sustainable exhibition industry, and frankly it's a welcome change given the amount of trade exhibitions full of companies that preach "sustainability" with one-off displays full of new and non-recyclable components (or "recyclable" components that will never actually be recycled!)
But forget the exhibition industry, what about the rest of us? Imagine open-plan work spaces being humanised with some cosy little corners and lush yellow chairs! No wait, forget work, what about in our homes?! Perhaps as a way to make a study nook more cosy and private, or a dining room more lavish. Or even outdoors, with luminous walls to create your own little back yard labyrinth (or just hide an aesthetically-challenged water tank or garden shed!)
And perhaps I'm already missing the hot weather now that Sydney is finally starting to cool off, but I can't help but imagine these mesh shells creating an amazing setting for an informal beach party or perhaps even a casual beach wedding. After all, why should offices and temporary exhibitions have all the fun?
Just when I was beginning to get over my phobia of display plates, it appears that all things knitted, weaved and crocheted are making a resurgence too. Not that it hasn't been a long time coming, celebrities have been flashing around their knitting needles for quite a while, and even your grandma was in on the craze before you were.
So it's no surprise that earlier this month at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, it was the unlikely union of tubular steel and weaved textiles (clothed polyurethane foam to be precise) that grabbed the attention of many. The design of new architecture/design trio Imaginary Office, the Pleats-Pleats Sofa is an unexpected combination of precision steel and squishy handicrafts.
Outdoor furniture is in on the craze too. These crocheted poufs from Ineke Visser are made from UV resistant polyester yarn that is reportedly as soft as cotton. Perhaps even less expected than weaves and tubular steel however, these pouf covers are designed to be pulled over rubber tyres. In the event that this isn't an ingenious means of reusing car tyres, Ineke has also designed crocheted pot plant covers to even out the green scorecard.
This latest trend for handicraft/homeware hybrids wouldn't come as any surprise to Rotterdam-based Christien Meindertsma, who has been creating hand knitted poufs under the banner of FLOCKS for the last few years. Christien collaborates with knitters, spinners, farmers and felters from around the world to create her bespoke range of knitwear, and although she focuses primarily on fashion, her hand felted, hand knitted poufs are practically a classic. Yes, a classic pouf. You heard it here first.
I know what you're thinking. Hand knitted? Those must be some BIG knitting needles she's got there.
And you're absolutely right. Grandmas and A-Grade knitting celebrities alike would be hard pressed to fight back feelings of severe knitting needle envy.
So get your hands on a weaved sofa, a knitted pouf and a crocheted pot plant, and while you're at it, hang your favourite plates on your walls too! Everything old is new again, and Grandma would be proud.
This exposition is amazing! Imagine, the most beautiful sea creatures from the Great Barrier Reef, all made now in crochet. All this huge artwork have an ecologic reason: Global worming. Do you know that many sea species, like coral, are dieing because of this? If we don't stop this serious problem now, soon we will have to forget about this incredible submarine world.
This exposition was designed and curated by Christine and Margaret Wertheim, Co-Directors of The Institute For Figuring (TheIFF). All the crochet work are a great testimony of feminine handicraft in our times.
If you want to see this exposition, there still are a few days, because it starts on january and will end at february 21, 2009. Where? Track 16 gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Via Ray of light.
We are great about recycling our wine and champagne bottles, but what are we supposed to do with all those corks?
It'll cost you a little postage, but Yemm & Hart Ltd, a small green building company in Missouri, will gladly take them off your hands....and with 15 billion corks in circulation around the globe each year, it might not be a bad idea.
What does Yemm & Hart do with all those little poppers (one and a half tons of them to date)? Floor tiles, of course, and they'll even return a complimentary sample. Check out the website link for further information on the program or mail your corks to:
Wine Cork Recycling: Yemm & Hart Ltd., 425 North Chamber Dr., Fredericktown, MO 63645
From Barcelona Spain, this design studio creates prints and patterns for wallpaper, textiles, appliances, furniture and more.
Their website, www.alanthegallant.com, is creative as well as chock full of all the patterns and colorways you could ever hope to think of as well as ways to use it. They offer endless designs in four different ways: commissioned upon brief, final product on demand, creative consultancy and pattern licensing.
From handmade designed wallpapers to lithograph artwork, all objects come in limited edition series. Seen in the New York Times as well as having made the round of many of the major design blogs, Alan the Gallant's prints and pattern ethos crosses that divide from 70's wallpaper into modern design.
New to the scene, we've only just begun to hear from the creative minds of Alan the Gallant.
Introducing two new rugs from 2Modern & Emma Gardner Designs. The Blossom rug (pictured right) was designed by Jennifer Sitko for 2Modern and manufactured by Emma Gardner Design in a limited edition of 10.
The Knots & Grain rug (pictured left) was designed and manufactured by Emma Gardner Design for 2Modern. Both are hand-tufted using 100% New Zealand wool.
