Art

1000 rings by Robert W. Ebendorf is a 416 page coffee table book featuring the best of contemporary ring designs from minimal sterling silver rings to over-the-top avante garde pieces. A visual haven for art geeks who enjoy and appreciate the works of various jewellery designers and their different concepts towards jewellery design. Visually enticing with great photography and intricate descriptions to pair with. If you’re running out of ideas on what Christmas gift to get for your design geek friend, this is probably your best bet- tried and certified by Femmething.

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‘Fashion doesn’t just hurt, it’s to die for’

Check out this set of super killer illustrations, Drawing Blood by Kuanth Teckham, featuring the works of some of the biggest names in fashion with the likes of Lanvin, Viktor & Rolf, Sonia Rykiel, YSL, Balenciaga, Comme des Garcons, Dries van Noten and Givenchy. With such killer beats to go, make sure you be blasting your stereos like there’s no tomorrow.

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Hong Kong based designer, Cheung Lik experiments with different materials and form to create her line of unique jewellery pieces under the label, Wear-and-Tear. Her range of experimental pieces have a strong sense of delicate vs structural touch; presenting them in an almost yin & yang presence. Seen prominently is the usage of delicate silk wrapped in geometric shapes in her “sculpturesque” collection (pictured above).

Pictures via Wear-and-Tear

Mctega is when science meets art. One of a kind jewellery made from the application of mass production techniques in the chemistry industry; but on a much smaller scale. Who would think science could be so beautiful.

Picture via Mctega

‘Design For Use is a platform to present niche European design as a diverse, edited collection of beautiful, thought provoking gift & homeware ideas.’

Design For Use sticks to the concept of bringing in underground, less-hyped designers, giving us, the public, an opportunity to experience originality and functionality in the form of product and design not commonly attainable elsewhere, something we ought to be thankful for.

Their product ranges from fun and useful stationeries, conceptual homeware to unconventional products for the young and trendy.

Take a look at some of their very neat products, great place if you’re looking for gift ideas for friends.

Pictures via Design For Use

A lil sick of your current desktop wallpaper and want some spicing up? Check out Tokion Mag’s site for some pretty whack designs by some pretty talented artists.

Via Tokion Magazine

For all you design nutheads out there, Australian based website, Moose: Art for living is a space to look out for. A site that celebrates and showcases the work of creative individuals in their design of jewellery, textiles, art, and space, anyone is bound to find something that ticks their fancy.

With over 100 independent designers stocked, each item sold comes with a small ‘Artist Profile’ so that buyers get to take home a piece of story behind each design.

Spread the love and support hand-made and home-grown art!

There’s something about 25 year old South Korean born photographer/filmmaker, Hasisi Park that we can’t seem to get enough of. It’s her raw essence peaked with ultra eclectic vibes that keeps us at the edge of our chairs wanting to see more; something you ought to see for yourself to truly understand.

We’ll just let the pictures speak for itself:

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The crew at M.I.S.S came up with an editorial spread, Le Rétifisme d’Insa (or The Shoe Fetish of Insa), featuring a series of ultra hot, kick-butt shoe design by Insa.

The editorials were shot in monochromes with the key feature being Insa’s trademark of shoe fetishism and loud graffiti prints. Modelled by Kimi of Lilofee and shot by New York’s Shannon Sinclair; this is definitely one not for the faint-hearted.

Read full spread editorial on M.I.S.S website

It is still worth checking out Wong Chee Meng’s art exhibition, Inward although all the pieces are sold out on the first day of his solo show @ Gallerie Taksu.

Artist Wong Chee Meng’s sight was impaired through an accident that left him with a condition known as stereo-blind, which is the inability to differentiate between shapes, dimension and depth.

As a result, Chee Meng’s fractures and flattens perspective. His paintings are not quite ‘out of focus’, they instead definitively record a unique view of the world.

Chee Meng’s works have an exciting visual acceleration, fluttering between layers of unconventional colour and an intricate web of dots, lines and forms. Overall, they appear out of register, a little like a flawed screenprint.

Exhibition runs from 23rd October 2008 to 8th November 2008

TAKSU Kuala Lumpur 17 Jalan Pawang, Keramat Hujung, 54000 Kuala Lumpur 03-42514396/0342515953