Scott Burton was an ingenious sculptor/furniture maker who established a unique body of work that functioned as both sculpture and furniture. Burton’s sculpture-installations often functioned as ...
Read ArticleNational Packaging Design Day was first observed in 2015. Design Packaging, a company known for crafting creative and functional packaging, established this day to honor the designers who bring produc ...
Read ArticleContemporary video games, like those designed by artist Pippin Barr, are the direct descendant of the combination of film and artworks that occurred widely starting in the late 1950s and early 1 ...
Read ArticleWhen thinking about the impact Scandinavian modernism had on furniture design, it is impossible to not consider the work of Hans Wegner. He was a prolific designer of all types of chairs, many of whic ...
Read ArticleThe history of African American artists goes back to the earliest days of the US. There are numerous art forms that can trace their lineage back to the African ancestors of African Americans, who carr ...
Read ArticleKenneth Cobonpue is a contemporary designer of furniture and other household forms who is dedicated to the use of natural and recycled materials, the natural materials often coming from his native ...
Read ArticleSato’s poster work shows just how fully Japanese graphic designers have absorbed Western modernist aesthetics and combined them with traditional Japanese sensibilities. Japanese poster art d ...
Read ArticleÉdouard Vuillard was a pivotal artist in the transition from representational and abstract art. He was a member of the Nabis group of painters, "nabi" a Hebrew word for prophet, i ...
Read ArticleAnders Ruhwald is an artist whose works blur the line between sculpture and design. One of his key interests is in the contrasting of textures of different materials. ...
Read ArticleKenichi Matsuzaki exemplifies the richness of the contemporary ceramic art of Japan. His rough surface stoneware works pay tribute to the centuries old traditions of Japanese ceramics, one of the ...
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