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These fungus-like purses are made of layers of laser-cut silk.

Created by Israeli textile designer Sivan Royz, the pieces are slotted together with string.

The tighter the curves, the darker the edges of the silk.

Holes in the fabric line up to create cavities inside, suitable for holding items like a lipstick and mobile phone.

Here are some more details from Sivan Royz:

Blooming Structures

This project takes inspirations from the world of blooming nature, what interests me most are the naturally constructed shapes that grow and develop in nature, and the smart simple ways that the are structured. I decided to bring these dimensional constructions into my textiles.

This bringing a creation of a new technique to work with fabrics.

Technique: Laser cut silk pieces, when brought together by string, create a textile structure.

The pieces are coloured evenly or not coloured at all. The shading and dark parts are created by the laser cut line, as a straight line will create less dark areas then a crooked line.

The dimensional pieces react to movement when handled and change accordingly like a living organism.

The white objects shown are small purses. One is custom made for holding only an i phone and a channel lipstick.

As a textile designer my main focus is in printed textiles, I have been taking interest mostly in how to make dimensional prints alongside the traditional graphic prints.

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Glueline by Oscar Diaz	Lanana by Ryszard Rychlicki	Tinkebell. at Torch Gallery

I had been coveting a necklace from Etsy seller (and UPPERCASE reader!) Urban Legend. This one, above, with its blues and oranges is now mine.

Kateri Morton writes, “I use vintage Lucite beads, sterling silver and brass chain to create playful designs that retain a sense of urban sophistication. I started making jewelry in 2006, and fell in love with vintage glass beads after finding a handful of old jewelry at a flea market. My joy in using these beautifully colored and finely crafted beads turned into an obsessive treasure hunt for more, and I’ve been collecting and designing with vintage beads ever since. Recently, I’ve especially enjoyed using vintage Lucite beads for their incredible quality, detail and lightweight comfort. I wanted to create a space to showcase these brighter, bolder pieces, and that’s how urban legend came into being.”

Kateri has a second shop selling these beautiful “ingredients”…

Over the next months we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com

Designer: Matt Catrino
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Category: DIY/Hack/Mod
Award: Notable


Turnbuckle Light
I acquired an old rusty turnbuckle while designing lighting. I immediately saw the potential to insert the perfect sized light bulb in the center of the turnbuckle. Once I found the perfect bulb, i inserted a fixture in one end and wired it up and added the bulb. It’s Alive!

The turnbuckle is used to pull tension on two cables connected to both ends. I saw the turnbuckle as a protector for the bulb which would be inserted into the center. This object is a direct representation of the tension we encounter in the world we live in.

Core77: What’s the latest news or development with your project?

Latest news about the project is that I made three of these lights, 1 of them is still at Mixed Nuts in San Francisco, and I’m thinking about heading back to San Francisco to get it. I am not quite sure if I want to try and make more, or if I should move on to more projects inspired from the turnbuckle light.

I’m happy about this project. The more I think about it, I see stories and connections that lie beneath the surface which give it added value. I want this project to be something which gets creative juices flowing and moves me forward, Perhaps use this project to receive other projects from interested parties?

Read on for full details on the project and jury comments.

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“I like when people have opinions—especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That’s why I made the name paintings. So rather than someone coming to my studio and saying, like, ‘Thank you for your time. I’ll see you later,’ and me not knowing why they don’t like my work, I understand now why they don’t like it. I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it’s like ‘What do you mean? It’s a flower!’ But if you make a painting of your name and somebody says they hate it, it’s like, ‘Well, why would you like a painting of my name anyway?’”

-Artist Josh Smith, whose work will be featured in the Printemps de Septembre festival, opening September 23 in Toulouse, France

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Another piece of the brutalist style of architecture has begun to be erased this week, with the news that San Jose’s Martin Luther King Jr. Library began being demolished earlier this week. Built in 1970, it was designed by Norton Curtis, who the Mercury News writes, built a handful of “ugly” government buildings in the city’s downtown in an era when modernism had perhaps lost its way a bit. Here’s a bit more from the Mercury‘s Scott Herhold:

As a library, it was poorly designed, ceding interior space for high ceilings and escalators rather than stacks. I can remember going to the old library in the 1980s and being struck by how small the book collection was.

The design on the outside smacked of Brutalism 101: A huge front of beige-painted concrete faced pedestrians, diving down into archway windows at street level.

The moat around the building separated the library from the street, like a forbidding castle.

The library itself has been closed since 2003, replaced by a newer, more friendly building down the block. In the interim, it served as offices for government agencies. But now, like most brutalist buildings, it’s coming down, leaving one fewer example of the greatly unloved style. At least we’ll always have Boston’s City Hall as a grey, imposing beacon on the hill…for now at least.

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