It seems fitting today that I’d planned to share Artifact Uprising, a Colorado-based photo book company inspired by “the disappearing beauty of the tangible” – especially poignant given the recent destruction of all things tangible in Oklahoma’s tornado tragedy yesterday. Their story is one that reverberates the exploring and shifting and re-building of dreams; one
I own multiple pieces of Leah Duncan’s – pillow covers and tea towels and prints – all perfectly patterned in today’s most coveted color stories. Glancing at her work, she appears to be a highly-trained, playful artist with a slight Southwestern flair – perhaps evident of summers spent in New Mexico with a grandmother and
I recently shared the creative journey of Bryony Shearmur – a musician-turned-photographer-turned-author-turned-designer (are you as exhausted by that title as I?), and she mentioned something that has reverberated in my ears ever since – the idea of a creative ecosystem. The realization that our creative lives and passions and dream jobs are the sum of
The Solv clothing label was born to promote the long-last values of consuming – loving, caring and passing along what you own to those you love. “But as the business grew, it became more and more difficult to hold on to our core values,” Mari writes. “Visiting our retailers and seeing our beautiful, timeless garments hanging on last-minute sales racks made us feel as if it were shampoo and toiletries we were selling.”
To press ‘pause’ on today’s fast food cycle, São Paulo and London-based designers Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves of Studio Swine designed a fast food restaurant where the diner is taken on a journey picking vegetables and baking buns to construct a hamburger before reaching the dining table. As a result, the act of consuming food is transformed into a ritualistic ceremony.
Michal creates her vessels by shredding a foam cube with her bare hands, digging and peeling and forming – a process she calls “barbaric.” And I find it so very metaphorical that, to create something new, Michal has to destruct the old. She has to carve away the excess, removing and re-shaping and molding a new form entirely – transforming the very existence of the original state.
We are what we eat, indeed. Which means that today, I’m a massive plate of avocado toast, inordinate cheese servings and – as of five minutes ago – a whole lot of mindless Internet morsels. I’m certainly not anti-Internet, but I have been making strides to better monitor my information intake. In a sense, I’m
One of my personal goals for this site is to focus on the process, not the product. The story, not the store. It’s easy to peruse blogs and websites and storefronts and see a beautifully displayed collection of objects, tangible whispers of the things we are or aren’t or aspire to be. Yet these days,