Textile designer Kit Miles first caught our eye at the 2010 Works in Progress Show at the RCA, where he exhibited a rich collection of prints featuring geometric gradient patterns. One and a half years on, and Kit is launching his own collection of wallpapers and printed fabrics for furnishings and drapery.
Here at Lin Morris, we are always fans of a beautiful limited edition design, even if we didn’t think of them ourselves. Thus is the case for this collaboration between Sydney-based motorcycle company Deus Ex Machina and Florida’s Makr Carry Goods. The DEUSxMAKR Tool Rolls are $149 and were made with #10 cotton duck Martexin waxed canvas and premium Horween leather. In a limited edition of 50, this handsome roll makes me want to buy some tools… fix something…find that random hammer beneath my kitchen sink to prove I have tools.
Louise Sass at MINDCRAFT12, Milan
Exhibited this year at Ventura Lambrate during Milan Design Week, Pink Elephants and In the Dark by Danish designer Louise Sass are overprinted cotton textile using a technique where a color scale is created by printing overlapping layers of the three primary colors, red, yellow and blue. Both works are one-off prints executed by hand with reactive dye on cotton textile, dyeing the material with water-soluble, transparent color. The thread creates a texture in the textile, conditioning the color rendition of the fabric.
A video by Spanish designer Jorge de la Cruz of a machine fabricating a wood turned dowel. The process is as smooth as the result.