Emmanuel Boos Knows When Not to Correct Porcelain
Emmanuel Boos keeps certain warps, rolling marks and glaze traces. This is not a retreat from control: it is a judgement made possible by knowing the material unusually well.
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Jazz Grant picked five V&A objects. Her collage became a Hackney mural
Jazz Grant searched the V&A stores, selected five objects, added photographs and cut the material by hand. The result shows what collage can do that a catalogue cannot.
Stefhany Y Lozano painted 26 hands. Gesture became the subject
In Stefhany Y Lozano’s work, hands stop decorating the scene and start carrying its emotion, eventually shaping a process built around lists, constraints and homemade templates.
The heart above the i is not this typeface’s most political feature
Oficía Mono turns office typography into a character. The more interesting thread connects its glyphs, licensing price and Charlotte Rohde’s eight-year interest in how typefaces circulate.
5,000 movie posters. The real subject is Texas
The Harry Ransom Center has exactly 5,000 movie posters in its digital collection. Looking at the metadata instead of the gallery reveals a much narrower corpus: almost all of it comes from one Texas theater circuit.
The shader moves nothing. It paints what moved
Maxime Heckel does not move objects in a shader: he turns differences between frames into masks, flow and velocity, then draws with those traces. The cost follows the pixels being processed.
Two colors go in. Poline decides how to travel between them
Poline turns anchor colors into geometric points before connecting them. The detour creates surprising palettes, but neither perceptual uniformity nor accessible contrast comes automatically.
He set out to make one sculpture a day. Missing four is the interesting part
Damien Hoar de Galvan set out to make a sculpture every day in 2024. He finished 362 across 366 days, enough for scraps, delayed ideas and a short deadline to become a method.
A payphone that barely does anything still works ten years later
Since 2016, an obsolete payphone in Takoma Park has played local bird calls. Its longevity says more about the design than its technical specifications do.
A train becomes the second axis of this line-scan camera
Linecam records one vertical strip at a time from a moving train. The hard part is not resolution but measuring motion well enough to decide where every strip belongs.