Society6 x Pattern People
Take us with you wherever you go! You can now buy Pattern People iphone cases, laptop cases and skins. Pretty cool huh? Oh, and we also have art prints in four different sizes available. Check it out on Society6.
Let us know what you think, if you have requests for certain types of designs, or any comments on the products you’ve bought.
Runway Roundup | AW12 Checkerboard
Preen | Marc by Marc Jacobs x 2
Ports 1961 | Miu Miu | Dries Van Noten
From over-scale size blocks to abstract interpretations, the graphic checkerboard appeared across the AW12 runways. Pick your favorite size and be a part of the game.
Interiors | A slice of the studio
Images | Spacecraft
Working in screen print can get very, very messy. Studios are often packed with fabric and paper to control and confine the mess into dedicated areas which grows over time like layers of dried paint. Spacecraft have turned this build up of colour and design into the most beautiful form of print – backing cloth artwork.
After 3 months of constant printing, the backing cloths which protect the printing tables become so saturated with colour that they have to be replaced. But rather than throwing them away, Spacecraft save the visual accumulation of ideas and mistakes into pieces that reflect the history and progression of their studio.
Working with portraits, botanics and 3D styles, the wall hangings offer a mixture of colour, texture and stages of many ideas all in one piece. I love the that there is so much to look at and texture to unravel and think they would make the ultimate piece of art for any print enthusiast. Which is your favourite?
Color | Candy Sweet
Pastel Cats | Ruined Polaroid | W Korea | Painting by Yago Hortal | POP Hair | Ombre T-shirt
Pattern Report | Floral Denim
Pattern Report | Floral Denim
Topshop | ASOS | Citizens of Humanity | Alexander Wang | 7 for All Mankind | Current Elliot
What better way to get ready for spring, then by combining spring’s staple of ‘floral prints’ with ‘casual denim’. These floral denims are great for achieving a femininity that is comfortable too! You can be ready for the garden party or the beach. As we saw in Andi Bakos Paris fashion report, we can always count on florals for spring, but we are seeing them used in new and fresh ways. We are seeing skinny jeans and shorts printed in sweet pastels and more edgy versions printed on dark backgrounds. These are great to mix with solids or push the envelope with floral on floral, or other pattern mixing.
Runway Roundup | Florals on Dark
Osman, McQ, Osman
Steven Alan, Manish Arora, Valentino
Osman, Lela Rose, Kenzo
Last week, Andi wrote about about all the florals on dark backgrounds she was seeing on the streets of Paris, and this trend was very much alive on all the runways, from Steven Alan to Valentino. This was an especially big story at Osman, where classic opulent florals popped and became modern on black.
Art | Markus Linnenbrink
Artist Markus Linnenbrink caught my eye with an installation he did in a prison tunnel in Germany. His work in the prison appears to be the more organic version of Craig & Karl‘s hallway. The layers and hidden content in his work make it interesting, and his attention to the weight and elements of his environments is really well done.
- Jen Lorentzen | Clutched Key Collective
Interiors | Au Vieux Panier Les Chambres
Eugénie Bergeon | Land Of The Moon
Mass Confusion | Purgatory Palace
Matthias Olmeta
Philippe Baudelocque | Fusion
Tilt | Panic Room
When you’re decorating a bedroom, the theme is usually light, serene and dreamy, but not so for guests of the Hotal Au Vieux Panier, Marseille. Updated annually by bold, imaginative artists, the small hotel with 6 themed les chambres has become a European mecca for lovers of art and design with money to spare.
The most recent addition is ‘Panic Room’ by Tilt, a group of graffiti artists who divided the room down the centre with clean white on one side and chaotic graffiti on the other. More of an installation than decoration, Tilt designed the space to exaggerate graffiti culture with “too much tags, too much drips, too much sentences, too much throw ups, too much drips”, giving it the feeling of an abandoned, disused place.
Street Trends | Paris Fashion Week | Floral Prints
I know what you’re thinking: floral prints in Spring? Real shocker, I know. It sounds boring and so “done before”…. but then why do these floral prints (as seen here at Paris Fashion Week) look so fresh? Is it because they’re grounded in black, which gives them some edge? Or maybe it’s the range of silhouettes that these florals have been applied to: motorcycle jackets, tapered pants and jumpsuits? Or could it be the layering of florals on florals..and sometimes even more florals? Whatever the case, these florals really pack a punch and I’m hooked on florals for spring.
Andi Bakos - Fall 2012 Paris Fashion Week
