Jennifer Khoshbin creates magnificent book art with a signature circular style. I am also quite fond of her modern trophies, decoupaged wall art in bright hues. via dear ada
A touring exhibit presented by The Jim Henson Legacy and The Smithsonian Institution is on view at the Smithsonian International Gallery, Washington DC from July 12 - October 5, 2008. There are tours, podcasts, a film series, a discovery theatre, Henson biography information and wonderful photographs of muppets and things.
Woolie Originals are artwork created by Jenna Robertson in Portland Oregon. Shecreates lovely canvas like art out of recycled wool sweaters as well as stuffed creatures called "woolies", and wearable accessories.
Sue Lappan the designer of EkoLeeko toys, uses ecofriendly all natural materials to make her plush dolls and baby rattles. The cord and bamboo fleece are hand dyed and print on organic cotton/hemp. All the dolls are filled with kapok fiber, walnut shells for bean bag weight in the large dolls, and buckwheat hulls for sound and play in the rattles.The items are sewn with organic cotton thread and the faces are stitched with soy/wool yarn. That monkey is the cutest!
Back in January, I posted here about the Museum of Modern Art's upcoming exhibition on prefab design. Well, the date is almost here--the exhibition opens July 20th!
The museum commissioned five architects to erect their own prefab dwellings in a vacant lot on West 53rd Street, adjacent to the museum. They have chosen five architects from a pool of about 400 to participate in “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling,” an exhibition opening in July. Prefab homes built off site and then delivered are largely complete when they arrive pose great design challenges but can save resources when built in a factory with modular components. They are a hot topic today in architecture schools and among an upscale segment of the housing market.
The five firms to show at the exhibition will be: KieranTimberlake Associates of Philadelphia; Lawrence Sass of Cambridge, Mass.; Douglas Gauthier and Jeremy Edmiston of Manhattan; Oskar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Rüf of Austria; and Richard Horden of Horden Cherry Lee in London. This is a video of System3 and a pictures of the Micro Compact & Cellophane houses on exhibition at the site.
Cate & Levi is a great company from Canada that I saw in our local artists coop store yesterday. Their recycled wool animals are made from old sweaters. The frog, bunny, bears and turtles in the collection come all sorts of colors.
