Seattle oil evokateur, Harold Hollingsworth, captures a swirling Retro style in his unique paintings. These large-scale canvases capture movement and depth while encompassing fragments of the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s design styles.
Artist & designer Cristian Zuzunaga, a Barcelona-born artist & designer, captures sheer imagination in his pixelated fabric prints, clothing designs and architecural influenced pixel-pop prints.
Created in-house, the new Antropologie Home Catalog features a clever retro-scrapbook look. As evidenced by current trends of design and marketing today, the use of retro-colors and fabric patterns seem right at home on this home catalog site.
from March 6 – September 7, 2009, the Cooper-Hewitt features the “Fashion Felt” exhibition containing incredible & beautiful felted objects from a traditional yurt (a trellis-frame tent covered with thick, humble felts made from raw sheep’s wool) to felted rocks (seen above). Read more about this exhibition and how the ancient art of felting has made a comeback.
I have a passion for, and am intrigued by, textile designs. Their repetitive nature of creation is so similar to techniques found in web background images. Shepard Fairey has an interesting selection of prints based on fabric patterns, including this one called “Japanese Pattern Fabric Set Red/Blk.” Visit the everything-Shepard site to see more.
