Stories on Design // Textile Installation Art.Fabrics and textiles are often associated with upholstery, clothing, or linings, and very rarely do we think of textiles as an "architectural material". Sure, we make shades and other types of stretched structures from them such as tents,...
‘Silver Linings’ Soft Furnishings Collection by Cakebread Studio.Australian textile designer & artist, Elise Cakebread, of Cakebread Studio has been creating original designs driven by a love of the tactile, the colourful and the frivolous. Extending upon traditional textile techniques, her latest...
Leather & Bamboo Silk Rugs from Cloak.With roots in Scandinavian design tradition, Swiss company Cloak offers a new collection of exclusive leather and bamboo silk rugs of the finest quality....
Jorge Penadés Transforms Offcuts From Leather Factories into Structural Skin.Jorge Penades devised a new production method that transforms the apparently worthless waste from leather factories, into an innovative material that is made 100% from an animal source. The result is Structural Skin, a material-based...
Kustaa Saksi’s Rug Collection Inspired by Family Member’s Hypnopompic Hallucinations.'Hypnopompic' by Finnish designer Kustaa Saksi is a collection of limited edition jacquard woven tapestries developed and produced in the TextielMuseum Tilburg’s TextielLab. In many ways, these rugs are like fairytales for adults,...
Yellowtrace Spotlight // December 2014.Once again the Yellowtrace Spotlight rolls around for the month, presenting exciting submission, projects, upcoming exhibitions as well as some amazing new local products we must bring to your attention. So welcome to the December 2014...
‘LUCAS GROGAN x SKARFE’ Debut Collection of Wearable Art.Although the good old 'C' word has been trashed from overuse in the last couple of years, we still can't help but love a good Collaboration around here. Fewer things are better than when two or more heads from completely different...
So Hot Right Now // String & Thread Installations.Lately I've been noticing a whole heap of amazing installations that redefine spaces, utilising modest materials such as strings, threads, ropes, metal chains etc. These interventions often allow colour and light to manipulate their...
Video // The Unseen Air by Lauren Bowker.Lauren Bowker has developed a reactive ink that changes colour according to different fluctuations in the air, demonstrated in a couture capsule...
