please, please let that be spring in the air
with the beginning of march and local weather forecasters projecting temps in the 40s, we minnesotans are beginning to believe that spring could actually happen. and with the impending launch of target’s liberty of london collection, i think i am a believer. because, really, don’t these fantastic prints just ooze relaxed spring style?
i know the blogosphere has been buzzing with images of target’s liberty home collection (see this post from decor8 if you managed to miss them) but not too much has been seen of the clothing collection, which i cannot wait to get my hands on. because i do love an adorable print dress… i sense a big bill at target on march 14. (sigh.)
i found the images above (and more) in this post from demi couture.
I stumbled across Scottish designer Johanna Basford while jumping around on ffffound! today. She has some really beautiful patterns. I love that she only seems to work in black and white. Very nice.
She has a nice little blog as well.
I just stumbled across Bon bon kakku, which appears to be like Threadless for fabric design. Submit, vote, and have your fabric made.
There are some nice fabrics in the store, but from a quick browse it doesn’t look like the competition is too fierce. Any pattern designers out there? Seems like a good shot to get some fabric made.
(via Junesix)
if you haven’t already heard, spoonflower is a new company that will print custom fabric that you design. i have always always been interested in textile design, so if you’re like me and want to see your designs on fabric, here’s your chance! spoonflower only sends out a few invitations a week (so that they won’t be overwhelmed), so get on the list now!!!
These are absolutely stunning.
(via Balla Dora Typo-Grafika)
The computer has infinitely changed the way we look at and think about art and with technology getting better, people are going to continue to surprise and astound us with how they are using it to create beauty.
As an interactive designer, I’m fascinated by “automated” art. Some people might think that it’s cheating, since no one is actually rendering the composition by hand. I find it exciting. The randomness of what can be created. The works rarely tend to turn out as something that anyone would have thought to render by hand.
The well-known example of what I’m calling automated art would be Joshua Davis, whose rendering programs have generated images for companies such as HP, Adobe and BMW. Josh is interesting because his work, created digitally and randomly is often sold as prints or made into murals, taking it out of the digital world and making it part of the physical world.
Then there’s processing an open source programming language that allows digital artists to create beautiful and interactive video projections such as this one that Barbarian Group did for Saturn.
And then this morning I ran across a company called Voiceprints that allows you to talk into a microphone and then based on your voice frequency it will generate patterns. How cool is that?
Computer geeks creating art. What a wonderful world.