by Grace Jeffers | Oct 24, 2018 | Materials, Thought Leadership
ESTHETIC ACTIVISM Recycling her company’s own goods Eileen Fischer buys back old clothes from clients and reinvents them into a collage of scraps. This act twice gifts the world with beauty, first as a garment and then as an artwork. This is aesthetic activism where...
by Grace Jeffers | Sep 5, 2018 | Materials, Thought Leadership
London is the epicenter of design that is exploring materiality. I wanted to learn more about emerging trends and approaches to research so I flew to London to check out the scene. I met up with Instagrammer Karin Skogund, a materials librarian at Materialities and we...
by Grace Jeffers | Aug 29, 2018 | Materials, Thought Leadership
The best thing at NeoCon wasn’t actually at NeoCon; it was at the Art Institute of Chicago. The chair is one of the holy grails of design. British Designer Max Lamb has created more than 400 of them using a variety of materials, both precious and inexpensive, natural...
by Grace Jeffers | Apr 30, 2018 | Materials, Thought Leadership
In April, I was part of the Modenus DesignHounds trip to Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy. This was my first time attending this event and from the hundreds of exhibitors at the fairgrounds for both Eurocucina and the International Bath Exhibition to the city, I now...
