Parametric furniture has to learn the weaver’s language
Priyanka Narula’s studio uses digital tools to explore complex geometries, then adapts them to the material systems and hand processes of Indian wicker craft.
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These photographs keep the seams that hold their fantasies up
Cotton, wooden rigs, beadwork, costume and symbolic objects remain legible in the images of Benji Reid and Zana Masombuka. Their fantasy does not depend on hiding how it was made.
Lewis Prosser replaces the weight of power with woven willow
For Civic Ceremonial, Lewis Prosser applies basketry and heritage metalwork to the objects of public power. The symbols remain recognizable, but their material changes the authority they project.
Lucy Sparrow sewed a supermarket of 20,000 felt products
The Beginning of Convenience rebuilds an American 1980s and 1990s supermarket with more than 20,000 handmade felt objects.
Broken furniture returns as something it never was
Since the 1990s, Fumiaki Aono has used abandoned objects as the starting point for repairs that do not attempt to recover the original.
Seventeen years of image experiments, inside one open-source toolbox
G’MIC 4.0 adds new filters, guided color transfer and creative-coding tools to an open-source framework that keeps exposing composable image-processing primitives.
Photographing what algorithms make invisible
Tell Me What To See is an ongoing photographic project begun in 2019 about how data, algorithms and automated systems alter what people perceive and decide.
The beatmaker didn’t disappear. The job was split into pieces
From samplers to loops and marketplaces, the beatmaker went from central team member to one link in a global production chain.
Two RP2040s turn a laptop into a USB keyboard
Two tiny microcontrollers are enough to make a laptop’s keystrokes appear as a real USB keyboard on another machine. LapBoard targets a very ordinary headless-computer problem.
Portuguese accents finally take up as much space as the letters
For Almeida & Dale, Porto Rocha commissioned a typeface where Brazilian Portuguese diacritics are not accessories added at the end. They carry the same visual weight as the letters.