Elana from Down Under: Dinosaurs & Design

Our guest blogger from Sydney, Elana Castle, brings us a pop of Aussie style today. Take it away, Elana!

Dinosaur Designs seem to pop up just about everywhere. I’ve seen their distinctive products in an array of magazines, on design blogs and on the fingers, necks and wrists of many Sydneysiders. Turns out, (hardly surprising given [...]

Shed new Lite

Designer Porky Hefer has just brought out a new collection of his beautiful lites, hand-turned from American Walnut.

The lites’ design was inspired by Ray and Charles Eames’ wooden stools and also by wooden spinning tops, and Hefer says that the emphasis of these LED-lit shades is ‘the way the light falls on the shades [...]

Setting the PACE

Curators Adam Levin and Andile Magengelele have spent the last few years tracking down “Wow!” pieces of handmade design from all over Africa, and the fruits of their labours are now on show at the Pan African Craft Exhibition – or PACE2010 – now on at the CDC-G Gallery at Nelson Mandela Square.

In putting together [...]

Kevin O’Shea

Browsing the hundreds of thousands of listings on the Etsy site always seems to raise a treasure, and this time it’s the rather lovely hand made stoneware by Etsy seller Kevin O’Shea.

Out and about: Pamela Sunday

A long, long time ago, when our brand new Deputy Editor Kelly Berman was our regular guest blogger from New York City, she wrote a story about the lustrous sculptural forms of ceramicist Pamela Sunday. Now that I’m in NYC, I thought it’d be nice to follow up with a studio visit.

Pamela’s studio in Carroll [...]

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