Mingei - Japanese Folk Craft

"one must conclude that in bringing cheap and useful goods to the average household, industrialism has been a service to mankind -- but at the cost of the heart, of warmth, friendliness and beauty. By contrast, articles well made by hand, though expensive, can be used in homes for generations, and thus considered, they are not expensive after all."

The Unknown Craftsman
Yanagi Sōetsu

Sketchbook Scans. Sweden Fall 2008

Bertil Vallien Sand Casting at Åfors

This past friday, we had the incredible opportunity to see Bertil Vallien casting at Åfors. Google him.

Quick Exhibiton Shots

Family och Mjölk Kanna

craftsman:
http://www.mickejohankonstglas.se/

Josef Frank Accidentism

Click on the images to read them.

For David

Check these out.

http://2or3things.blogspot.com/
http://referencelibrary.blogspot.com/
http://hopingforhappyaccidents.blogspot.com/
http://www.booksathome.blogspot.com/
http://design-mind.blogspot.com/
http://idcollective.blogspot.com/
http://mopu42.wordpress.com/

Ernst Haeckel

Art Forms in Nature
260 mb download
http://www.origamitessellations.com/haeckel_download.html
this should make you buy the book.
available at Cog and Pearl in Park Slope
www.cogandpearl.com

Josef Frank

"Every great work of art must border on kitsch."

Hot Shop Photographs

Photographs from the first round of prototypes. Incalmo technique.
Photographs by Mareike Hantschel.

Var-Dag Christmas Display

These are process photographs of the window display Mareike, Amyel and I we were asked to design in the town center. Var-Dag is a clothing store with high end Swedish garments.

Lots of Things

Many new pictures from today,
New Shots of Caraffe before Photoshop.
Assortment of scissors found at the second hand store
Sketches and overlays
New drawings to be made tomorrow
5 pieces that were made on Tuesday by Micke Johanson and Wilke Adolfson
Design by Kyle Sola
Enjoy

Studio Photographs.

http://www.jonaslindstrom.se
went to his studio last week to see how he does things,
here are some preliminary photos, it took forever to get the dark lines in the form so that the clear glass could be described through light.
I had 5 pieces made this afternoon for the Family Dinner set. Ill have some quick shots up tomorrow when they come out of the annealing oven.

Stockholm

Happy Halloween from Sweden.

2d Sketch Before Plaster+Sand Molds for Skruf

Here is the 2d sketch before making molds for prototyping with Skruf Glasbruk.
Gray are will be explored with different surface treatments and techniques.
Pictures of plaster models and molds coming tomorrow.

Studio Photographs From First Workshop

Started a studio product photography course today, here are some of the pictures i took of the prototypes/ experiments from the first exhibition.