Art
Our articles on art and product design delve into the creative process of makers who explore and experiment with various materials and design styles. We provide a platform for these creators to showcase their work and share valuable insights on their craft.
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Swedish designer Kajsa Willner has collaborated with furniture retailer Olsson&Gerthel and Swedish furniture producer Fogia to create an exhibition that showcases the beauty and potential in waste.
Art, Product Design, Events
The exhibition, aptly named "Crafted Potential," is a stunning display of the possibilities that exist when we reimagine residual materials as a valuable resource.
Kateryna Sokolova designs the “Flock” Lounge Chair and “Freyja” Coffee Tables for Ukrainian Design Company NOOM
Art, Product Design
Ukrainian design brand NOOM has created gently rounded coffee tables “Freyja” as an homage to femininity and natural beauty. These sculptural and sensual tables, named after Freyja, a Scandinavian goddess of love, beauty, and fertility, are designed to evoke a sense of warmth, cosiness, and tranquility.
Single Person Gallery - a boutique gallery in Shanghai - is reimagined by Offhand Practice as a sculpted enclave that echoes the rugged soulfulness of a cave.
Art, Architecture & Interior
The decision to transform this 60-square-meter street diner was made in December, where the client decided to use this venue as a vintage houseware gallery, named “Single Person”. Stochastically, this decision coincided with the designers, Offhand Practice, upon their first visit to the venue.
Atelier Cph creates a series of modern, colourful and expressive prints, titled Fragment
Art, Product Design
For the 2022 collection, Atelier Cph dared to play outside the lines and have created a modern, colourful, and expressive series of 17 prints - created by mixing their love for tactility with a neverending exploration of new techniques.
Exploring the overlapped duality of life with No.29
Art & Culture, Events & Exhibitions
To explore the overlapped duality of life, this mixed-media project records the connections between families and loved ones through manufacturing surreal scenarios and embracing the idea of memories in objects.
Argot Studio x SSENSE
Product Design
Argot Studio is launching its first collection on SSENSE this September. Featuring bio-sourced and recycled materials, these versatile, sculptural pieces are intended to fit your interior and last a lifetime.
Mellow Mushrooms by Jorge Suárez-Kilzi
Product Design
Jorge Suárez-Kilzi was born in Venezuela to immigrant parents of Spanish and Syrian descent. His collection of works is signed under his mother’s last name, Kilzi, which is also often used to describe a person who works with plaster and chalk.
Existence of Abstraction
Art, Events & Exhibitions
Object Momento is delighted to announce the Existence of Abstraction, a solo exhibition of sculptures by the Korean ceramic artist, Lee Nuri, her first show with the gallery and the first in China.
Breaking Paradigms
Product Design
Siete Studio was founded in Mexico City and Australia, arising from a multidisciplinary fusion that seeks to break paradigms and link uniquely with users, creating a concept that they like to call spatial and sculptural design, which is based on creating a direct link between users, spaces, and meaning.
FAINA Gallery of live Ukrainian design
Product Design, Architecture and Inteiror
FAINA, a collection of furniture, lighting, and decor, rooted in Ukrainian cultural heritage. Brought to life by the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, FAINA nurtures its connection to land and
ethnic roots, starting a new wave on the global design scene —“live design”.
Making the Past Present
Art, Event & Exhibitions
A poetic ground created in collaboration between ang-ang studio, No.29, and OOLONG to present their vision of memories and time while bringing awareness to the elderly in Changde Nursing Home.
The Silent Dialogue
Art, Photography
This photo series by Henriette Schou and Frederik Kastrupsen highlights the need for a deeper reflection on how climate change and isolation may change our meals in a modern or futuristic world.
Looking Through Voids
Product Design
Hayden Allison Richer is a ceramic artist residing in Detroit, Michigan. Her interest lies in the mirroring and reflecting of pairings and voids through the dense visual language of solid cast hydrocal.
Whimsical Realism
Product Design
Lameice Abu Aker a multidisciplinary designer based in Jerusalem - aiming to create contemporary pieces through working with Palestinian craftsmen and artisans from different areas in Palestine.
Out of the Woods - In Conversation with co-founder of Foresta, Patricia Peinador
People & Studios, Interviews, Product Design
FORESTA was born from a place of care with the deepest desire to change the world. In 2019, they began working with a designer to develop their own products - furniture and interior accessories. We caught up with co-founder Patricia Peinador to learn more about FORESTA and its sustainable approach to design and manufacturing.
Speaking Volumes
People & Studios, Interviews, Art
Patrick van Riemsdijk is an Amsterdam-based artist with a background full immersed in visual arts. We were delighted to speak to Patrick about his journey as an artist, the creative process behind his artwork, and what he has got planned next.
Senses Beyond Vision
People & Studios, Interviews, Art
In our conversation with Ileana, we learn more about her personal aesthetic, delving deep into her affinity of dark colours and abstract forms as she takes inspiration from the world around her.
Abstraction & Empathy
Interviews, Art, New Norm Magazine Issue 04
Agnes Jonas is an illustrator who creates atmospheric digital artworks, creations that are unconsciously led by her mind and emotions.
People & Studios, Interviews, Product Design
Meet Alejandro Valencia, founder of Dear Durango, an architecture and design studio, seeking to create projects that stand out for their pure and functional character.
Root of Identity
Aesthetics of Ordinary - A living minimalist eatery by Yakusha Studio
Architecture & Interior, Food
Designed in live minimalism, the signature style of Yakusha Studio, a modern eatery features a laconic interior primarily made in natural and recycled materials and enhanced with a living spirit of artisanal objects.
Cosmos, Time, Movement
People & Studios, Interviews, Product Design
A lifelong exploration, Turbina cultivates a dialogue; a constant and evolving narrative that is rooted in all areas of our being – a way of life and understanding.
Manipulating Fabrics
Art
Atelier Cph unveils their latest collection, Assemble, Photography by a series of 28 art prints inspired by the feminist textile art movement.
Product Design, Interviews, New Norm Magazine Issue 03
Immerse yourself in the experimental and mesmerising art of Birgitte Due Madsen, as she reveals her artistic identity and inspiration.
Unrestrained Expression
Botanical Form
Art, Photography
In this series, Michiko Picco captures the silhouettes of different flowers through the passage of time in an aesthetic and timeless way, turning something so fragile into a moment of elegance.
10 Questions with figures
People & Studios, Interview, Art
figures, a functional creative studio, in search of material enlightenment. Works encompass products for the living environment with a high preoccupation for materiality and experimentation. Positioned on the interface between industry and art, figures creates pieces characterized by conceptual design, clean aesthetics, and functional forms.
Reflect and Remember with July Adrichem
People & Studios, Interview, Art
July Adrichem is a Dutch artist that focusses on minimalistic shapes. In her artworks, she always seeks for the ultimate balance in an everchanging environment. Many materials and shapes and colours get involved in the process of creating her sculptures, and that synchronization process, she says, is what it’s all about.
Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng
Art, Product Design
Inspired by morphing shapes in nature, and with a desire to set form to imagination, the emerging Norwegian designer Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng, creates abstract objects that expresses quirky aesthetics with an organic design language.
Reflect and Remember with Kim Bartelt
People & Studios, Interviews, Art
In her work, Kim Bartelt does not paint surfaces; she paints with surfaces. Instead of a brush with paint on it, her painterly work consists of irregular segments of colored and transparent sheets of paper which she applies to the canvas.
New Norm Magazine Issue 03, Travel Journals
Colour has never been detached from architectural design, and just like paintings, sculptures, and photographs, applying colours to the environment and architecture is believed to have a profound influence on the emotions on people.
Living Colours - Edificio La Muralla Roja
10 Questions with Floortje Roeper
People & Studios, Interviews, Art
Meet Floortje, founder of floortje.louise, as she delves deep into her affinity of nature, the main inspiration for her creative studio centred around content creation, styling, graphic design, and photography.
10 Questions with Emilie Van Camp, founder of IyaGallery
People & Studios, Interviews, Art
Emilie Van Camp is the founder and artist behind IyaGallery. The essence of her watercolour work is very much inspired by two of the main characteristics of the Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetic: kanso, which means simplicity, and seijaku, which means tranquillity.