Posts Tagged: art

Hey Pinky

Is it just us or is pink everywhere? Candy, salmon, coral, baby, bubblegum, it’s the sweetest and girliest of colours. It strange to think that colour take on expressions and meanings. Who comes up with these ideas? Why is pick considered to be the colour of femininity? We love this Dazed & Confused shoot dedicated… Read more »

Monette & Mady Malroux

We stumbled across this article in New York magazine about Parisian identical twin sisters Monette & Mady who live their lives as one. They wear the same clothes, live together, eat identical portions of food and finish each others sentences. They speak of themselves as ‘we’, never ‘I’. Photographer Maja Daniels has been working on… Read more »

Stampel

Stampel products are the designs of Andrea Shaw who works to create “unique, colourful, functional yet playful and environmentally responsible” pieces that serve to make our world a brighter, happier and aesthetically pleasing place. From patchwork scarves, ombre spray vases (inspired by spray painted surf boards), patterned boxes, shelves, beads, and macrame plant holders Andrea… Read more »

Spring Florals

Fashion season begins, kicking off with NYFW! The spring collections are always the most exciting for print, it’s almost impossible to stay on top of it all! We spotted Ostwald Helgason‘s prints and definitely felt they were worthy of our attention. The main idea for design partners Susanne Ostwald and Ingvar Helgason behind the collection… Read more »

Apocalypse Now

Hugo Barros is a Lisbon-based collage artist. All his collages are handmade using old photography magazines to create new images with entirely new meanings. Hugo plays with composition and scene to create arresting imagery with quite dark tones.

Penny Lane Profile: Zoya Kraus

Zoya Kraus is one of those enormously talented people who has creativity and skill can be applied across such a wide range of mediums. Painting, illustration, textiles and even body art Zoya channels her love for colour anywhere she can. She lives in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, with her 3 children whose… Read more »

Shaun Edwards

In anticipation of Australian Indigenous Fashion Week 2014 we wanted to share some of the incredible work from indigenous artists who will be shown at the event in April next year. Shaun Edwards is a Kokoberrin artist from Pinnarinch, part of the western coastline of Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland, Australia – landscape made up… Read more »

Palette

A commitment to a strong colour palette always make a photoshoot so much more striking. We recently posted on the seventies colour palette of Henrik Halvarsson for German magazine Flair, and only yesterday we stumbled across this beauty Julia Noni for Vogue Germany. Another amazing shoot with colours, including mustard, teal, canary yellow, yves blue… Read more »

Surrocodelia

Victoria Garcia is an artist and illustrator who has lent her talents to likes of Ginger and Smart, Karen Walker, Peter Alexander, Marnie Skillings and more! She specialises in creating hand drawn imagery and pattern using illustration. She references “Wunderkammer’ (or Cabinet of Curiosities) as a source of inspiration – a period during 17th century… Read more »

Man As Art

The following photographs are a selection from Malcolm Kirk‘s collection documenting tribal body art of Papua New Guinea tribes. Once the former assistant of Irving Penn, Kirk took the photographs over 13 years of travel to the South Pacific. Tribesmen and women decorate themselves for social gatherings, the imagery does not necessarily have specific cultural… Read more »

The Bonafide Bedfellows

Think Positive was delighted to have a visit from The Bonafide Bedfellows – a creative online journal profiling “those who persistently inspire our fashion, music, design and photography industries”. Think Positive designer Emilie Cacace was their latest subject of interest, interviewing her on her “very big baby” Andéol. Emilie took Bonafide Bedfellows on a tour… Read more »

Deep South

Deep South is the ongoing project of Melbourne-based photographer Sean Fennessy, capturing the everyday life of Australia’s island state: Tasmania. Banal or beautiful, only the viewer can decide, but Sean’s photos certainly capture suburban stillness, with a calm observational tone. Bake sales, dog shows, the Lion’s Club, each captures a moment of life in the… Read more »