[Emily Potts] Last week we were inspired by three amazing artists: Henning Wagenbreth, Sophie Dutertre and Placid. In keeping with the French artist theme, I’m starting off this week’s Creative Chain with an illustrator I deeply admire and respect.
[Kim Rogala] As the Mohawk Show 12 entry deadline approaches (May 31st, so hurry and enter!) we wanted to direct your attention to the Show’s materials that were created by the team at Tether. We asked Stanley Hainsworth, founder and chief creative officer of Tether, to tell us a little about his thoughts behind the designs.
[Alyson Kuhn] Michael Boyd, designer of the PLANEfurniture line, collects modernist furniture, art, architecture and design books, and ephemera. Last year, he decided to create a line of modernist-inspired furniture that “makes you think, holds your body, eases your mind, and sits well within your budget.” That’s a quote from the jacket flap of PLANEfurniture: types + prototypes, designed by Mick Hodgson of Ph.D, A Design Office. I recently sat in some of the furniture and can confirm that it is quite user-friendly.
Brazilian shoe company Melissa, maker of eco-friendly 100% recyclable plastic shoes, teamed up with Post-It to create a unique marketing campaign for a new line of shoes: Melissa Power of Love. The company used 350,000 colorful stickies to create vibrant designs, covering the outside walls of the Galeria Melissa in São Paulo.
The designs morphed and moved during the five-month process, detailed in the stop-motion video above. Onlookers were encouraged to write messages of love, resulting in over 30,000 handwritten notes.
