10.20.15
Up and Coming
Macramé Wall Hangings by Himo Art
May Sterchi’s works of rope art and macramé combine a sculptural stillness with a fringy, shaggy flow that feels both of-the-moment and timeless.
10.19.15
Invitation
The Dogs of American Design + A Shinola Pet Giveaway
To celebrate the line of dog accessories Shinola has developed with Bruce Weber, we asked nine American designers we'd spotted Instagramming their canines alongside their creations (like Ben Medansky, above) what makes their dog a hero. See their best dog photos here, then post your own response on Instagram for the chance to win a Shinola leash, collar, rope toy, and postcard set worth $227.
10.17.15
Saturday Selects
Week of October 12, 2015
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. In this week's post: an iridescent side table, a Michael Graves apartment you never knew existed, and a sneak peek at our upcoming Dutch Design Week coverage (pictured above).
10.16.15
Graphic Design
$100 Posters by Graphic Designer Nigel Evan Dennis
Chicago-based Nigel Evan Dennis is one of those graphic designers who does it all, from album art to campaigns for New Balance and Nike. The work we're showcasing today, however, is a series of affordable posters (each one sells for $100 in limited editions of 20) he's designed as part of his personal work.
10.15.15
An Afternoon With
Sight Unseen, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Last month, when the watch brand Mondaine asked for a peek into a day in the life of a Sight Unseen editor, I dragged our trusty photographer Paul Barbera all around the Brooklyn enclave popping in on our friends and shooting future studio visits for the site, from Workaday Handmade to Confettisystem.
10.06.14
American Design Hot List
2014, Part I
This week we announced the 2014 American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen's unapologetically subjective annual editorial award for the 25 names to know now in American design. We're devoting an entire week to interviews with this year's honorees — get to know the first five Hot List designers after the jump.
10.14.15
Excerpt: Magazine
The Houses of Prickly Mountain, from Collective Quarterly 2
Collective Quarterly is a niche journal that deep-dives into a different locale with each issue. In Vermont, the journal pointed its camera lenses at a region known as the Mad River Valley, spotlighting the craftspeople and personalities based in the area, from puppeteers to knife-makers to the brilliantly quirky architects whose profile we're excerpting today.
10.12.15
Up and Coming
Istanbul’s Day Studio Merges Turkish Crafts With Contemporary Design
DAY Studio began as an extension of Doganberk Demir and Yesim Eroktem's ECAL thesis project, in which they channeled their Turkish heritage to work collaboratively with local manufacturers and craftsmen in and around Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, creating reinterpretations of traditional Turkish objects.
10.10.15
Saturday Selects
Week of October 5, 2015
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. In this week's post: Peek at Chamber gallery's newest collection, own an Andrew Kuo artwork for $35, drool over new jewelry by Mociun, and mentally transport yourself to a mind-bending installation in Amsterdam, pictured above.
10.09.15
Graphic Design
Block Print Series by Naomi Clark for Fort Makers
With their repeating triangle and half-moon motifs, the prints represent a natural synthesis of the collective's output to date.
10.08.15
8 Things
The Influences of Mast Brothers Creative Director Nathan Warkentin
Nathan Warkentin has been driving Mast Brothers's creative direction for the past three years, nudging it away from its original Brooklyn aesthetic and towards something more relevant. “In the beginning everything was a little old-timey, with a lot of classic or nautical patterns,” says Warkentin, whose influences we’re profiling today. “I started looking for inspiration in interesting art and architecture movements, and the work of current textile and pattern designers, to make it feel more contemporary.”
10.07.15
Sighted
New Ceramics By Saint Karen
Many ceramicists have day jobs, but few have ones as incongruous as Karen Aragon of Saint Karen, who spends the majority of her hours working as a web developer. Her latest ceramics collection is an attempt to bridge those two interests by pulling influences from her more technical role into her creative one. “I wanted to be able to marry these two parts of my life, so I fed what I learn and research as a developer into my ceramic designs," she explains.
10.05.15
Studio Visit
Los Angeles Textile Artist Rachel Duvall
Since moving to Los Angeles five years ago, the artist Rachel Duvall has been refining an almost scientific approach to handweaving, based as much in foundational considerations like hue and line as in methodical chemical experimentation. She uses only natural dyes and modifiers such as copper and iron to “investigate the subtlety of colors,” she says, though the range she achieves — including a bright neon yellow and purple from fermented lichen she collects herself and then brews in her backyard — is striking.