A girl with a floral surname, designer Sandra Di Giacinto specializes in highly unusual works of art. She uses recycled and recyclable materials to craft handbags and rings, necklaces and bracelets that are so delicate and skillful that at first glance you can't guess what exactly. So, her last collection of jewelry can never be called paper, if you do not know this from the beginning
It is not at all necessary to be a designer or an artist to create, entertaining yourself and loved ones in different ways. It is enough just to come up with some funny idea and implement it, and then show it to everyone. Someone will surely be delighted
The 21st century works wonders. First, our mothers and grandmothers learned how to use mobile phones, then they risked getting to know a computer, and now they are decorating the streets with unusual graffiti. Moreover, their "victims" are not only walls and fences, but also monuments, benches, lamp posts, trees and even flower beds
Every year, thousands of animals around the world are killed just to use their skins to create stuffed animals. The process of making stuffed skins is called taxidermy. The artist Shauna Richardson is also involved in taxidermy. But she does it without harm to nature - with the help of knitting needles and woolen thread
British artist and designer Mandy Smith is an extremely creative person who loves art and mathematics, and therefore, she is crazy about solving complex problems that she herself sets for herself. Mandy Smith is happy to take on any project where you need to work really hard and hard. The main thing is the result. And he's perfect
Artist Lizzie Thomas's incredible paper installations fit easily into a simple wooden box. They are surprisingly compact and can even be carried in a regular pocket if desired. When closed, it is a simple rectangular box, but if you open it, this ordinary thing becomes a work of art, a mysterious, fabulous world
We all know this picture: before major holidays, a huge flotilla of people storms supermarkets in search of worthwhile gifts for family and friends. Dodie Eisenhauer is one of the few artists who managed to combine business with pleasure: it's not a shame to donate her creations and they won't gather dust on the shelves like unnecessary trash, it's nice and useful! And most importantly - very beautiful
Ukrainian artist Tatiana Vornovitskaya has been engaged in unusual creativity for ten years now. She paints pictures … with patches of colored leather. And she does not get abstractions, but portraits, landscapes, still lifes that are quite familiar to the eye
The wise cat Matroskin said: "to sell something unnecessary, you need to buy something unnecessary." But if there is already something unnecessary in the house, it can be creatively processed to get something beautiful, original - and necessary not only for the author, but also for all other hand-made lovers. So, someone processes clothes or furniture, someone processes plastic bottles and parts from broken computers, coffee makers and watches, and an American artist, acting under the pseudonym iRI5, works with
The moon and the stars, surrounded by a light halo, the firmament, which consists of circles and spirals … "Starry night" is a sin not to lay out something rounded (many connoisseurs of Van Gogh use bottle caps for this). But how did no one think to make a copy of the famous painting using the quilling technique? However, why didn't I guess. The masters of paperwork are not asleep. American Susie Myers expressed her admiration for "Starry Night" with curled strips of paper
What happens to a book when its mission to teach, tell, and advise is complete? At best, it gathers dust on a shelf, in a suitcase in the mezzanine or in the attic. We will not talk about the worst. It is known, however, that people with skillful hands and irrepressible imagination use old literature, which is hardly useful for posterity for creativity. BookOfArt is another way to turn a book into an art object without using a knife and scissors
She has created thousands of them over the past few years. From semiprecious stones, natural leather, nails, buttons, bearings … But whatever Cathy Burg uses to create fashionable designer items - great buckles
The world of human hobbies and interests is incredibly diverse - some of us love cats and dogs, someone Ozzy Osbourne and Elvis Presley, someone loves cool mugs. London-based company Takkoda, specializing in unusual gifts, decided to combine it all. Now we have the opportunity to drink coffee in the morning with Ozzy Osbourne, who looks like a dog
There is never a lot of money. But if, nevertheless, you have a sufficient amount of small change in your piggy bank, which you are reluctant to spend and keep in the piggy bank no longer has the strength, you can follow the example of the American designer Johnny Swing, who made a whole sofa out of several thousand nickel coins. can be used as "real" furniture if desired
Tory Hughes is the author of original jewelry solutions. They make products from polymer clay. She has been working in this field for over 35 years. Tory's work is one of a kind and tells the story of her travels around the world
Christmas holidays in someone initiate a desire to spend as much money as possible (in a shopping center in Santa Monica, even a Christmas tree from baskets was created for the holidays), someone has a desire to drink as much as possible, and someone has a desire to be creative. Conceptual artist Peter Eudenbach, who created an unusual Christmas ball called Chimera, belongs to the last people
Knitting has become a popular trend not only in design but also in art. So, more and more often we observe interesting art projects related (there will be a pun here) with knitting. Take, for example, the recent knitted skeleton, or knitted and embroidered sandwiches, or knitted dresses in the form of food. Textile artist Cynthia Ray also seems to have a lot of respect for delicious food. And at his leisure, he creates knitted counterparts of his favorite dishes
While most computer users no longer see the use of floppy disks in their daily lives and ruthlessly throw them into the trash cans, artist Diana Ritter argues that the possibilities of floppy disks are truly endless. Not as information carriers, of course. But as materials for creating works of art
Love for all ages. Including - love for needlework. In order to be convinced of this, it is enough to look at the stunningly beautiful collection of temari balls, which was embroidered by a 92-year-old grandmother
It is not easy to make a doll with your own hands, but it is even more difficult to breathe life into it, to make it so that those who look at it see not just a beautiful piece of porcelain, plastic or a well-cut piece of cloth, but something more, "alive", real. This happened with the dolls of Oksana Mironova, which we wrote about quite recently, and with the porcelain girls of Siu Ling Wang … But it cannot be said about those babies that are made by the artist Tia Fada that they are alive. No they
You can make a Christmas tree with your own hands from a variety of materials. The most original Christmas trees go to exhibitions, and their authors receive prizes for the best work. Protectors of nature rejoice at such crafts of people, because the forest does not suffer from such trees
Young aspiring artist Oksana Mironova from St. Petersburg adores her dolls. No, she does not play with them - she invents and creates them. Creates images, gives them faces and names, clothes and shoes, and also mood and character. And it seems that these are tiny little people who froze, immersed in their thoughts, but in a minute they will come to their senses - and again rush about their business
Flocks of tiny hummingbirds created from paper by the Korean author Cheong-ah Hwang probably dream of flights and a clear, free sky, but … But they are not destined to see clouds - who in their right mind will release from the hands of these stunning paper sculptures of the finest work?
In late March - early April, the Final Cut exhibition was held in the Indian city of Mumbai, where amazing carvings from local craftsmen were presented, who, in collaboration with German artist Tobias Megerle, created a series of unique skateboards made in the traditional colonial style
Creating is better than destroying. American artist David Palmer decided to remind us of this old ingenuous truth. To do this, he began to create portraits of celebrities on spent cartridges. The author of the weapon art depicts only famous people who died from gunshot wounds. The triptych on spent cartridges consists of portraits of Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon and John F. Kennedy. In general, make art, not war ("do art, not war")
In a couple of weeks, it will already be Halloween - a holiday when everyone wants to dress up in something unusual, extraordinary. However, not everyone has enough money to buy a special outfit or want to buy it. But check out the extraordinary paper crafts by a Hong Kong artist named Linus Hui. Perhaps you don't need to buy anything? After all, you can do everything yourself
There is nothing more beautiful than mutual understanding between people, a sort of idyll in the world of creativity. Despite the fact that this world is so wide and extraordinary, there is always room for new fresh ideas and inventions. Unusual designer toys from the "EN" Workshop are a symbiosis of the creativity of a pair of young artists: Elvira Shaburova and Nikita Melnikov
Modern and well-read beauty experts - THIS - would designate the exotic word "erotica", which is hardly accessible to all of us, people of the Russian people. But, our ancestors even "from the time of O BUT" were molded from clay by the date of the summer solstice "from June 21 to 22 (and when:" less girl, more woman ") on the night of Ivan Kupala" - figurines (chicks ) "Dude" and "Dude", in poses that were not even dreamed of by the then Euro-speaking "don-Guans" and other "kama-sutrists"
We write a lot about what kind of designers are dreamers, how many ideas come to their minds, but very often this is what happens - a company, agency or magazine give a designer a task or a topic, and only then the creation process begins. It happened in this case too
With the appearance on the network of lessons and manuals for creating hand-made jewelry made of polymer clay, people, mostly girls, rushed to sweep plastic from the shelves, rush around the cities in search of pasta machines and other devices for sculpting and baking ready-made jewelry. However, despite the popularity of the hobby and the number of master classes held, not all craftsmen manage to achieve such success as the Russian jewelry creators working under the pseudonym Del-Moro
What new can be brought to such an ancient sphere of arts and crafts as handicrafts? The search for themes, forms and, most importantly, materials does not stop. Seattle-based artist Adrienne Antonson has found both an unusual theme and non-standard material: she makes insect figurines from … human hair
It is difficult and very long, but interesting and incredibly beautiful: this is how you can briefly but accurately characterize the art of origami, which first conquered the east, and by leaps and bounds moves westward, captivating and enchanting everyone, young and old. And it is not surprising that an American of Japanese descent, a young man named Shuki Kato, was fascinated by the art of folding paper as a child, so that from it they turned into figures, and in several years he achieved incredible success
This is not to say that an artist named Ed Bing Lee from Philadelphia suffered from a lack of food, or, on the contrary, was a constantly chewing glutton. He just likes to create knitted food: mouth-watering cakes and pies, hot dogs and hamburgers, Coca-Cola and popcorn. Although, no, not knitted, but created with macrame
A resident of Washington named Rania Hassan says that her creative career is entirely due to her friends, who once taught her to knit. Very quickly, the girl became interested in this activity, so much so that she simply fell in love with the soft fluffy yarn, the intricacies of threads and knots, and, of course, with the results that delighted not only her, as the author-creator, but also the family and friends whom the girl presented with your knitting. However, Rania Hassan had another fascination
There are many works from Fimo's plastic, jewelry and toys are made of it, the Internet is full of lessons on working with Fimo, but no one handles it as masterly as Jon Stuart Anderson. He creates his works in the same way that ancient masters created their mosaics and drawings on stained glass windows. The artist applies the resulting drawings to stencils prepared in advance, made in the form of animals. The result is very beautiful figurines that breathe something oriental
If you love nails, polishes, and you are a fan of geek hobbies like Pokemon, Nintendo games, or Hello Kitty, you simply must check out this selection of uber-geek nails
We have already written about creativity related to knitting several times. The authors have long ceased to perceive handicraft only as a way to create clothes or interior decoration items and enthusiastically use it when creating installations, sculptures and other art projects. Another example of custom knitting is in front of you
In childhood, of course, we all willy-nilly engaged in applique work. But in adulthood, even the most creative people somehow do not even remember about this form of needlework. It is tacitly considered frivolous art. But this status does not at all prevent the Lobulo studio from making real masterpieces out of paper
Despite the fact that minimalism is a corporate style of Apple, many owners of its products are trying to make their favorite gadgets unique. For example, using stickers
To depict what we want, we do not always need sheets of paper and a pencil with brushes. Designers know how to create without such trifles, we were convinced of this more than once. Even if the result does not always coincide with our expectations