Alexander McQueen pushed boundaries and made you think beyond the clothing.
Feb 18, 2010 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: Alexander McQueen, dark, design, fashion, theatrical | Leave A Comment »
Simon Evans was always doodling and sketching as a child yet shunned the thought of formal art training. He spent time skateboarding on the streets of London.
Feb 01, 2010 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: Adobe Books, collage, diary, Gulliver's Travels, inventory, Jack Hanley, London, map, Mission School Art, Paul Klee, SFMOMA, streetskating | Leave A Comment »
Daydreaming happens when we look at the mesmerizing images of Petra Borner.
Dec 11, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: collage, fashion design, illustration, pattern, Sweden, textile art | 4 Comments »
This strange young Scotsman who wandered the land talking to rocks and flowers became an American hero – the “Father of the National Park System”.
Oct 28, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: John Muir, Ken Burns, Muir Woods, National Park Service, Sierra Club, Stephen Mather, Theodore Roosevelt, Yosemite National Park | Leave A Comment »
Chicago resident Jenny Beorkrem, founder of Ork Design, celebrates this unique urban buzz with a series of cool typographic neighborhood posters – better known as Ork Posters. She has taken the utilitarian messages of a map and smartly spun them into deceivingly functional and striking diagrams.
Sep 02, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: Boston, brooklyn, Chicago, DIN1451, graphic design, Great Lakes, Harvey Milk, Los Angeles, Manhattan, NYC, Philadelphia, portland, poster design, San Francisco, screen-printing, Seattle, soy ink, Toronto, typography, Washington DC | Leave A Comment »
BIG is an architecture firm based in and practicing mainly in Copenhagen that has been churning out some pretty innovative ideas.
Sep 01, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: architecture, color, Copenhagen, Denmark, design, graphic design, lighting, parking, public spaces, Scandinavia | Leave A Comment »
The art of crochet has become an inspiring modern design element.
Aug 03, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: contemporary art, crochet, design, fashion, furniture, jewelry, lighting, trend | Leave A Comment »
Now, don’t you wish you were right here, right now taking a lazy summer’s nap in this dreamy hammock?
Jul 30, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: design, Ieva Laurina, nest hammock | Leave A Comment »
KAWS has become an important figure in the movement of underground graffiti culture into the mainstream of gallery art.
Jul 13, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Leave A Comment »
We love edgy fashion. Especially the kind that blurs the line between creepy and beautiful.
Jun 25, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: accessories, Bjorg Jewellery, charm, creepy, design, DESIGNER, edgy, elegant, fashion, German, jewelry | Leave A Comment »
Jun 24, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Leave A Comment »
Todd Oldham and Amy Sedaris show you how to make decoupage tables.
Jun 24, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: Amy Sedaris, decoupage, design, funny, how to, pattern, print, Todd Oldham, video | Leave A Comment »
We’re growing really fond of these fun fabrics from Eley Kishimoto…
Jun 19, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: Eley Kishimoto, fabric, fashion, floral, print, textile, upholster, upholstery | Leave A Comment »
We are wild for this designer we just stumbled upon…
Jun 03, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: edgy, Europe, fashion, gathers, girly, kate towers, Latin fashion, portland, romantic, ruffles | Leave A Comment »
Handmade in Brooklyn under the watchful eye of the Statue of Liberty the designs by “ruffeo hearts lil snotty” are hittin’ perfectly on the pulse of the moment.
Jun 01, 2009 | Categories: Design Trench | Tags: brooklyn, color, fashion, underwear | Leave A Comment »
