Tina Puckett is a self-taught artist who has been weaving since 1981. She grew up in South America, where she was exposed to crafts at an early age. As a child, Tina liked to build things like tree houses, doll houses and furniture, and sewing clothes for her dolls. She was fascinated by construction and […]
Kaye Blegvad is a designer and illustrator born and raised in London. She studied Illustration at the University of Brighton and moved to NYC shortly after. Besides making gorgeous drawings, Kaye creates a collection of ceramics, and also has a line of jewelry called Datter Industries, which occupies her non-drawing-and-art-making time. Datter is the Danish […]
Michael Mapes was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and received his MFA from University of Illinois in 1992. Technically, Mapes is a portraitist, though he rarely uses paint. Instead, the artist recreates the human face by arranging different tiny materials into highly detailed works of art. Each of his pieces is constructed from what he […]
Melissa Zexter was born in Rhode Island, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Photography from New York University/International Center of Photography. Combining hand-stitched embroidery with photography, she creates layers of narrative and texture over a flat surface. The sewn patterns and […]
Bertjan Pot is a designer born in 1975 in Nieuwleusen, The Netherlands. He graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 1988. In 2003, Pot started designing under the name Studio Bertjan Pot, which he continues to use, working alongside Vladi Rapaport and Marjolein Fase. These stunning masks started out as a material experiment. Bertjan wanted […]
