Maryland’s Amy Sun Ah Blair gears up for the March Pins and Needles online CraftBoston show.
She covers pieces of flat polymer circles with dots, stripes, and color collages then piles them into a very happy, very modern flower brooch.
If you read through the list of CraftBoston artists you’ll find a number of polymer artists in the mix.
Isis Blackstock (littlepiecesjewelry) turns squiggles and wrinkles and tubes into polymer chic.
Isis’ pieces are light on technique and heavy on making a smooth, sleek, modern statement.
Recognize the Christmas tree in these earrings from Chicago’s Molly (SlabandStone)? She calls them Modernist.
Shapes boiled down to their essence make me inexplicably happy. Look at the way Molly pairs semicircles, half rounds, and ovals with metal shapes and her own fresh twist on terrazzo polymer cutout shapes. Here she is on IG.
Fresh twists are what I’ve bumped into again and again this week as I scoured the web for StudioMojo tidbits.
I’ve found some real bright spots in this December-to-Remember. Come squint at the 2021 sky with us to see what’s ahead.
This simple “Commits” necklace from UK’s Caroline Casswell exudes summer fun and playfulness.
Caroline admits that her inspiration comes from the famous Kapitza Studio. Their sharp geometrics influence modern design and give us wake-up colors for a Monday.
No clasps, just bright beads spaced out on a buna cord. Simple becomes sophisticated.
Poland’s Malgorzata Wawrzynczak (Moiko) mashes up Nikolina Otrzan’s methods with her own silkscreens to create a series of flat flower brooches with a mod twist and rusted finish.
Cutouts allow the fabric below to show through.
Gosia heads off on her own toward other flower and shapes. Those tab (half oval) shapes are popping up in more and more designs.
If you want to see what other ideas are catching fire for the fall, join us over at StudioMojo this Saturday when we’ll make sense of the designs and products that are showing up in the shows and exhibits.
Switzerland’s Anouk Stettler (habetrotdesign) updates tribal designs and mixes them with modern materials and sensibilities.
This brass and polymer cuff, she says, is one she wears often. Her designs have a freshness about them and she pairs textures and shapes that you may not expect.
You can do a little detective work on Instagram, Flickr and Facebook.
