Student and Graduate

Earlier this week I wrote about RCA textiles student Ya-Wen Chou‘s The Hidden Beauty project. More recently she has been taking inspiration from the traditional patterns and culture found in her native Taiwan.

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These unusual, sculptural vases by Kobe Design University student Nobu Miake are designed specifically for displaying dried flowers.

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Anyone who read the post about my trip to the mineral room at the British Museum will know that I like a nice sparkly rock or two. So these mixed media works by Taiwanese textile designer and RCA student Ya Wen Chou are right up my street. Read the rest of this entry »

This stool concept by Japanese student Hiromi Manabe from Kobe Design University has me wishing I’d never thrown out my old knits and that I’d had a Rollin Rollin device to turn them into fluffy upholstery.

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