Toronto-based Amanda Happé is decidedly gifted in the painting and drawing areas of life. (As well as in the beautiful-long-red-hair area, but that’s another story.) Not one to shy away from color, Amanda embraces it wholeheartedly through all of her work. Her latest is a series referred to as Runes Water, full of stark imagery and simple shapes on clean white backgrounds.
ROW 1: Baggu Backpack in Canvas // Square Backpack in Mustard // Minimal Nude Backpack
ROW 2: Yami Backpack // The Whitepepper Graphic Print Canvas Backpack // Wherever You Wander Backpack in Pink
ROW 3: JanSport Heritage Jayhawk Backpack // Hershel Supply Co. Heritage Mid-Volume Backpack
ROW 4: The Twill Snap Backpack // BURTON Tinder Pack 
ROW 5: Cognac Leather Canvas Caravan Backpack // The Transport Rucksack // The Kane Backpack in Pink and Mint
Lorna Simpson is a very accomplished artist, having created everything from large scale photo and text works to her latest – manipulated photographs from the 1950s. All of Lorna’s work confronts and challenges conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory, while each piece explores interactions, relationships, and experiences in contemporary America.
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Posted In create, mixed media
I’ve always been fascinated by space, so why not make room for it in my kitchen? Italian designers Diesel Living and Seletti’s eleven piece Cosmic Diner Collection is made of porcelain and decorated with realistic images of the planets, the sun, and several moons. I love that several of the pieces could pass for abstract if you didn’t know what you were looking at.
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Posted In house and home, kitchen, living
Yung Cheng Lin‘s manipulated photography is attention-grabbing, that’s for sure. Her latest series strives to bring attention to female body modification through a digitally imposed piece of red string threaded through her subjects’ skin.
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Posted In create, photography
If you were to create a modern lamp with old-fashioned telephones as inspiration, you might end up with something like this ceramic lighting collection from ENTLER. Sturdy bodies support elegantly curved necks and all is covered with a glossy finish, making me feel like I could lift one up for a conversation.
(via Design Milk)
Posted In house and home, lighting, living
Columbian artist Johan Barrios works in graphite and watercolors to create some of the most beautiful mixed media results. The finished pieces leave me feeling as though I’m looking at washed out film that’s been dipped in a series of chemicals. But nope, just raw talent.
This week on Design Crush:
Check out these ten fresh art prints for your dose of Print Edition: August.
I took a trip to Kennywood for the first time since 1999!
Tessa Horrocks‘ pebble-centric art has me looking for the nearest stream.
Canopy beds done right.
I’m ready for fall, thanks to Lieke van der Vorst.
I’m getting so much use out of my DIY modern shower memo board!
If Drew Tyndell styled up the outside of my home like his art I wouldn’t mind.
These slivered marble hooks are so pretty and handy.
Loving the summery paintings of Seth Smith.
While I realize we technically have over a month of summer left it also feels as though we’re crawling towards the finish line. That’s what Seth Smith‘s paintings feel like to me, the last few days and week of warm weather before school and other obligations start to creep in.
I’ve walked out of my house without my keys or sunglasses more times than I care to admit this summer. I’d love to hang one or two of these small slivered marble hooks near my front door as a last minute reminder to please grab me now lest you regret it later.
