Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

I recently discovered Bruno Munari, an Italian designer born early in the last century who celebrated the power of simple design to stimulate imagination. His brilliance and unconventional stance influenced visual arts, literature, poetry and even early childhood education. Munari advocated simple shapes such as squares, circles and triangle as awakening the imagination and creating [...]


I recommend anyone serious about patterns to explore the richness of Chiyogami paper (江戸千代紙). Chiyogami, literally “thousand generation paper”, is a woodblock-printed paper that Japanese use to write special letters, poems, wrap gifts, cover books and even make paper dolls or small boxes. Starting in Kyoto’s imperial court, the popularity of Chiyogami spread to Tokyo [...]


I met with Tsang Kin-Wah, one of Hong Kong’s most talked about artists, who has successfully established himself abroad. As we walked through the Hong Kong Art Fair, Kin-Wah explained the idea behind his striking floral text-pattern wallpapers. The underlying theme of his work: challenging social norms and the way we look at things. What [...]



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