Wishing you all the best this season, and in the new year to come!
Here at Seed, we’re suckers for wool, especially when the artist or designer working with it experiments and thinks “outside of the box,” or “outside of the chair,” as in this case.
We discovered Claire-Anne O’Brien’s site and it was love at first sight. She embraces the natural beauty of wool, but her approach and methodology is much more inventive and unique.
See for yourself…
yellow stool
group of stools
chairwear
chairwear
via: http://www.claireanneobrien.com/
Materia…New materials present opportunities for fascinating innovations.
Materia stimulates and inspires architects, designers and producers to apply these materials to their designs. The company is a knowledge centre for developments and innovations in materials, and their applications for architecture and design. Materia is familiar with many innovative materials from all over the world, as well having knowledge of their specific characteristics. This knowledge is published worldwide by Materia using various media. http://www.materia.nl/
Robin Reigi…
Transparency affords Environmental Responsibility.
Robin Reigi provides designers with the most unique architectural materials available by introducing them to talented manufactures eager to bring their innovative products to market. Consistently bridging the gap between talented makers and would be users has earned Robin Reigi the position as the most trusted source for fresh ideas in the material world.
Robin Reigi considers transparency to be a critical step toward environmental responsibility. Robin Reigi provides full disclosure of the environmental status of our all of our materials whatever shade of green. They strongly encourage all of our manufacturers to publicly address the environmental impact of their products. http://www.robin-reigi.com/category.php
During a recent trip back to Ecuador, I (Tracy) was inspired by all of the graffiti art in some of Ecuador’s largest cities: Cuenca and Quito. The difference in style, though, was huge. In my mind, if Quito is the middle-aged, business suit wearing/metropolitan/fast paced capital, then Cuenca is the artistic/eclectic/laid-back/cultured city that feels more like a town. No matter where we wandered in Cuenca, there was a scene to be photographed. But what caught my camera’s eye the most was the street + graffiti art. I’m not about to get into the debate as to whether this type of art is really art or not. I’m here to say that what I saw was inspiring, colorful and adds a sort of creative vibe to the fabric of the city. Of all of the people we met in Cuenca, nearly all of them have an art of some sort: graphic design, dj/music, culinary, clothing design, painting, hat making, etc…signifying the pervasive nature of the arts + culture in this part of the country. So, it’s not a surprise that we would find images like these around every corner…
universidad de cuenca campus
universidad de cuenca campus
word on the street
on the streets
building
"grow. think. create. no metafórico sino literal..."