Ziska

Ziska is Harpa Einarsdottir. Born in 1976, lives and works in Atlanta, US. She graduated as a fashion designer in Iceland school of art and design, in 2005, but works mostly as an illustrator and multimedia artist. Among her interests and passions are: art, fashion, photography, and illustration.
http://www.dripbook.com/Ziska/

Patrick Caulfield

1. B Watch me eat, without appetite, â la carte, 1973.*
2. Bathroom mirror, 1968.
3. I've only the friendship of hotel rooms.
4. T Ah! storm clouds rushed from the Channel coasts.*
*From Some Poems of Jules Laforgue,

http://www.patrickcaulfieldprints.com/

'No artist of his generation has contemplated the comedy of life with greater intelligence, wit or courage than Patrick Caulfield.'—Mel Gooding, art historian.

Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005).

"In 1956 he started at Chelsea School of Art, initially doing graphic design then switching to fine art and trying abstract expressionism for a bit. At the Royal College of Art, he developed the essentials of the synthetic handling that was to be his permanent way of painting. Caulfield always winced and bridled at being labelled a pop artist. He saw himself, he said, as "a 'formal' artist". Painting in oils on board, he produced images that Hogarth would have commended as worthy of being displayed as pub signs: paintings with conventionally romantic titles (Battlements, View of the Ruins, Bend in the Road) displaying a taste for cutting the crap and appreciating, besides Gris - the subject of a splendid manifesto-type portrait in 1963 - the Tintin comic strips."

"His paintings are substantiated by wily observation and deadpan wit. The paintings absorbed banalities: the painter rendered them worthy, memorable, cherishable even, as emblems of modern life. They brilliantly encapsulate the ways we are seduced by habit, the way things mutely communicate."—William Feaver.

Subsist

Subsist is the creative output for aspiring graphic designer and art director Michael Kosmicki. A graphic design student at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, currently based in London. Set to graduate 2010.
http://www.hellosubsist.com/
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Johann Rosenmunthe

Anonymous, 2008.
Off, 2008.

"I have been preoccupied by exploring how you might view the world in a slightly different manner. It's human nature to categorize every thing in boxes and turn situations and people into stereotypes in order to comprehend the world. In the wake of globalization we have to include almost every human being on the planet since the natural distance between people has been erased. That means that you invariably will—and have to—reduce people to anonymous stereotypes. Just like others do the same thing to you.

I find it interesting when the philosopher Slavoj Zizek talks about the downside of globalization. He believes we have to develop a new way of distancing ourselves from people we don't know, so that we are able to treat them with the respect a completely unknown person deserves. We can't act as if we know other cultures as well as our and can't criticize them as we can our own culture."—Interview with Ann Bülow, 2009.
http://www.rosenmunthe.com/
http://www.behance.net/

Gert & Uwe Tobias

"Romanian twin brothers Gert and Uwe Tobias create large-scale woodcuts and sculptural constructions. They use the dark mythologies and history of their native Transylvania as their subject, bringing age-old folktales and imagery into the realm of the present—while at the same time referencing modern graphic design and abstract imagery. In their multi-media installations they explore the way in which legends are formed and how objects stimulate cultural memory. Their world is dark, but not without a wry sense of humor." —Bob Niklas.

b. 1973 in Brasov, Romania, they live in Cologne, Germany.
Hochschule für bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany, 2002.

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Destilat

'louise'. light.

Destilat is: Thomas Neuber + Harald Hatschenberger + Henning Weimer

"There is no past, present, or future. There is only that which we make of it. Design is a process without beginning and without end, a field of immense curiosity, a depot of ideas. We move in this creative chaos, somewhere between the old and the new. We are in search of innovation that seems familiar to us, provocation that stirs us, functional seriousness that makes us laugh. We work with all emotions and senses. Step by step, the design process unites customer’s needs, hard technical facts, and aesthetic qualities. The essence of this process is the product: Concentrated, reduced, and distilled. Our name says it all."
http://www.destilat.at/

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Sam Brewster

This cover for a nature themed zine, was created by Sam Brewster and it looks specially good as the background of his twitter account.

"I like to explore the relation of geometric shapes and composition with more traditional observational drawings, often with a surreal twist. I feel I have taken influences from the Constructivists and a lot of contemporary art, design and illustration."
http://www.sambrewster.co.uk/

David Galliquio

http://davidgalliquio.blogspot.com/

Talita Hoffmann

'Campos y antenas'. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/litsy/

Transformer

http://www.transformer.st/

Moroso

Tropicalia chair, 2008 by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso. The design starts off from the same structure as the Antibodi collection, though using weaving techniques. The collection comprises a chaise longue, couch, armchair, chair, outdoor bed, swinging nest.. A tubular steel structure with complex geometrical shapes, embellished with a clever weft of threads that alternate solids and voids to a specific pattern.

Each object in the collection takes on a different personality depending on the material and the colour used. It can be made playful and cheerful by using thermoplastic polymer threads free of heavy metal and recyclable, sophisticated and precious by using leather, simple and elegant by using HT polyester double plaited cords in either one or two colours. The coloured versions are made using three threads combining different colors.

http://www.moroso.it/

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Kose

1. Fabbriches collection: Suburbs, Asphalt, Cloud, Binary, Motion, Smoke, Chalice.
2. Riflessi collection: Chiaroscuro, Ombra, Luce. 2004
3. Scacchi collection: Alfiere, Regina, Rhe. 2002
4. Note collection: Si, Mi, Re, Diesis, Do. 2003

Vases and bottles in Clay designed by Rosaria Rattin for Kose, Milan.
http://www.kosemilano.com/
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Images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Sahnna Kvist

1. Series: Piece of me.
3. Singles: People.

Soft, exposed, cold, organic, flash, mundane, interior, still life, exterior, spontaneous, warm, stark, mysterious.
b. 1986. Stockholm.
http://sannahkvist.se/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sannah/

Max Lipsey

1. Tree branches coat hooks. A product for inside that connect indoors to outdoors.
2. Saltball and Hourglass, salt glow lights. Rotating the lamps moves the salt inside changing the diffusion of light.
3. Object/Interviews: The dissection of an iPod. 'Interview', photography and classification of the parts of an iPod.

Thought provoking design of the american designer Max Lipsey. Based in Eindhoven, his work has a base both in objects analysis and rethinking function and process.
http://www.lipsmax.net/

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Carlo Galfione

1. Nothing but Flowers. 2008
2. Michail Kalashnikov. 2009
3. Happy Birthday. 2009. All on damask wallpaper.

'Portraits frozen in aseptic perspectival cages, grotesque faces whose age is impossible to determine, profane representations oscillating between an altar panel and a magazine cover'.—Galleria dieffe arte contemporanea in Torino.

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Joe Cariati

Joe Cariati is a designer and glassblower from Los Angeles who produces high quality, hand-crafted contemporary glassware.
"Feather-weight, a lot of light transmission and overall clean lines are really what my glass is about. I'd love to see it float off the table. It's extremely difficult to execute this quality in terms of technique, which I find very exciting, it keeps me engaged in the process." "My approach is to craft the glass quickly and efficiently; clean, pure, simple and beautiful."

http://www.joecariati.com/

Follow his work on: Blogger / Facebook

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Chromalab

Clocks by Chroma Lab. Boston, MA
http://www.supermarkethq.com/
http://www.chromalab.net/

Fred Tomaselli

1. Glassy, 2006.
2. Butterfly effect, 1999.
3. Torso, 1999.
4. Laura, 1995.

b.1956 in California, lives in New York. 'Fred Tomaselli is celebrated for the ecstatic fantasies he presents in his pictures—explosions of color, laced with art-historical references, that both invite transcendence and hint at the more toxic, monstrous visions that can accompany quests for the sublime. He uses a range of techniques, including collage, painting and glazing, to make his highly decorative pictures that are often described as psychedelic—particularly since he has infamously included pills and marijuana leaves among his collage materials (which once led to his works being detained by customs officials in France)'.

"I want people to get lost in the work. I want to seduce people into it and I want people to escape inside the world of the work. In that way the work is pre-Modernist. I throw all of my obsessions and loves into the work, and I try not to be too embarrassed about any of it. I love nature, I love gardening, I love watching birds, and all of that gets into the work. I just try to be true to who I am and make the work I want to see. I don’t have a radical agenda."-source

Gustav Gustaffson

Evasive, mysterious, scandinavian realism, quietness, poignancy, humor, thought provoking, reduced, evocative.
b.1983. Lives and works in Sweden.
http://gustavgustafsson.com/

Mikaylah Bowman

"I started to take photographs when I turned Fifteen. I don’t know what it was that made me want to start taking them but I think I felt like I knew exactly what I wanted to have the people around me do in them. Wanted strong blank stares and space. Wanted boredom."

"I just want someone to find everything I’ve done in a bin at Savers and take it home and look at it, get bored, leave it somewhere. Ultimately, I think that would be the most honest thing I could do. I think it might be where it belongs."

b.1984. Texas, US.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikaylahbowman/
http://oldrecipe.livejournal.com/
http://www.theoneswelove.org/

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