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Italian artist Moneyless, known for his 3D geometric installations constructed from yarn and string, was in San Francisco recently for the Linear Empires show at White Walls Gallery. Evidently he took some time to ramble around the Bay Area and craft some uncommissioned works in the great outdoors. The angular sculptures consist of straight clean lines arranged in spatially organized webs that......read more
For fashion heads, Assembly New York is one of Manhattan's must-hit retail spots. But there's a lot more going on there than designer clothing. Like, for example, these handwelded glass and metal terrariums, created by Assembly in collaboration with a sculptor in Philadelphia. Inspired by abstract architectural forms, the Mini Geometric Terrariums come in a variety of shapes, each......read more
John Sardari is a Portland designer who shapes these geometric wood planters out of local woods. Each planter is unique in that the wood grain and layers of wood are distinctly different. We fell in love with these as soon as we first discovered them. Contemporary lines with the warmth of a true craftsman's hands. Each planter is approximately 15" X 15" and 5" tall Please note: planters......read more
Estudio Guardabosques is the studio of Caro Silvero and Juan Elizalde, a Buenos Aires-based couple who collaborate on papercraft projects for both editorial and artistic purposes. From the pair's impressive portfolio comes Paper Mammals, an ongoing sculpture series depicting mammals in geometric paper forms. The paper works show off some amazing craftsmanship, with both well known and......read more
A graphic designer by trade, Erin Lightfoot has ventured into ceramics to create unique pieces of porcelain jewelry patterned with her own geometric prints. Lightfoot's dynamic approach to color and composition is on full display in her range of bangles, featuring digital patterns inspired by Edwardian tiles and the 1900 Exposition Universelle. Each piece is fired three times, then hand......read more
Here is a really cool short from Tao Tajima featuring footage from the streets around his Tokyo home. In Night Stroll, discovered on Colossal, we see geometric shapes made of light interspersed throughout the darkened streets of suburban Tokyo. The animated shapes were created (we think) by tracking the footage with 3D computer graphics software before adding CG shapes and reflection.......read more
Jack Tatum's Wild Nothing project is back and set to release a 7-song EP, Empty Estate, May 14th on Captured Tracks. "A Dancing Shell," our first taste of the EP, goes straight into 80s pop territory, all warm synths, funky basslines, and laid back vocals. The chilled-out track comes complete with a colorful animated video courtesy of London-based illustrator and animator Hayley Akins.......read more
When Dave Hartley isn't manning the bass for War On Drugs, he stays busy recording orchestral, layered pop songs under the Nightlands alias. "I Fell In Love With A Feeling" is a shimmering, horn-adorned track from Nightlands' latest release, Oak Island, and it now has some surreal visuals to go along with it. The two-minute clip, directed by David Kessler, follows the silver-painted Hartley......read more
Danish experimental folk outfit Efterklang returns with a new video for the opening track off of Piramida, their fourth studio album due in September on 4AD. Directed by Oodls (creative duo Jakob Steen and Christoffer Frandsen), the clip for "Hollow Mountain" is appropriately expansive, exploring sweeping natural landscapes via a series of photographs that hang from the beams of a......read more
In an increasingly urbanized world, it's great to find photography that celebrates the beauty of the built environment. These pics from Jared Lim definitely do just that. From his home base in Singapore--a country that's entirely urban--Jared travels the globe to capture images of city structures and forms. His series Urban Exploration reveals the the geometric collection of curves, lines,......read more
