CURRENTLY ADMIRING....PLATE ARTIST, YVONNE ELLEN

CURRENTLY ADMIRING....PLATE ARTIST, YVONNE ELLEN

Sep 29, 2016

My favorite design experience happens in the small details. Those thoughtful, fresh moments that are created with kindness and style. Smiles all around. This is exactly what I believe artist Yvonne Ellen's vision is about. Yvonne creates "unique upcycled vintage homewares" and that they surely are. Clean and fun patterns - stripes, dots, flowers - in simple color combos allow the quirky yet elegant main design to show through - animals. Beyond charming, she has taken the ordinary and added a layer of extraordinary to it. There's something super special about reimagining the every day, right?! 

Click here to see more of Yvonne's lovely dish sets as well as her other products. 

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THE ART OF HARUKA MISAWA

THE ART OF HARUKA MISAWA

Jul 5, 2016

Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder and I have a feeling that most people would deem the exquisite and thoughtful art of Haruka Misawa to be just that. Her art feels like she's letting us peek right into her creative mind. I recently discovered her portfolio and I wanted to share one of my favorites so far - pencil shavings. These charming and quite lovely thin wood blooms are the outcome of a pencil sharpener. Aren't they just stunning? It's amazing what she saw when she looked at what most of us would consider useless. 

Misawa has already had a substantial career working for design firms in Japan and, more recently, began producing installations under her own label @ Misawa Design Institute. You can check out her work on her site as well as her fab Instagram feed. 

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