Ikea's Newest Collaboration Includes Large Sketchbooks + T-Shirts
Friday, 5 May 2017
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We take keep a novel sneak peek of a limited edition collection coming to IKEA this June. Six talented artists as well as pattern teams alongside closed links to the fashion manufacture were hand-picked to create the STUNSIG collection, which features prints on everything from fashion photography, digital couture, cartoons to manus drawings as well as collages that were applied to everyday items such equally cushions, duvet covers, boxes as well as porcelain. The whole thought behind the collection was to plough something that is otherwise considered ordinary into something that is extraordinary. In improver to habitation furnishing accessories, the collection also includes a option of t-shirts, tote bags as well as sketchbooks.
“With STUNSIG nosotros wanted to acquaint novel artistic prints that are to a greater extent than unique, to a greater extent than fun as well as to a greater extent than daring! And apply them to selected IKEA products, turning them upside downward as well as making them extraordinary.” - Henrik Most, Creative Leader for STUNSIG
The novel STUNSIG collection launches at IKEA stores inwards Canada equally of June 1st as well as volition live available piece supplies final (approximately 6-8 weeks). Let's accept a look!
Artists:
Frédérique Vernillet makes a betoken of varying the materials she uses as well as the collaborations she chooses. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 graduate of Applied Art School inwards 2003, this critically acclaimed creative someone has spent the past times several years creating prints as well as patterns for create to have on fashion, tableware, advertisements, magazine editorials, as well as fifty-fifty wallpapers. Her travel has been recognised past times clients similar Printemps Haussmann, Kerzon, as well as Aigle. Frédérique’s sharp, ultra-realistic drawing trend as well as her poetic inspiration seeks to modernise the old-fashioned universe of figurative illustrations. Wild animals, colourful birds, luxuriant leaf as well as foreign faces compose her surprising, enchanting as well as quirky universe. “For STUNSIG, I wanted to capture contrasts inwards my drawings, as well as wild animals are ever exciting,” she says. “You desire to pet them, but you’re also a fiddling afraid of how they’ll react. They’re exactly equally beautiful equally they are terrifying – a foreign feeling. By using both right away lines as well as graphic patterns, lodge as well as chaos tin coexist on the same surface. I dearest how exactly a few lines tin create as well as then much emotion.”
Malcolm Stuart studied paradigm as well as drawing at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) inwards New York City. “It wasn’t until I did an airbrush apprenticeship inwards a Jamaica Queens NYC mall that my vision came into focus,” he says. With the airbrush at his command, Malcolm became hooked on the thrill of having his fine art incorporated into people’s daily lives. His unique work, piece rooted inwards
drawing as well as painting, has evolved inwards the final decade to include article of apparel as well as objects of daily use. His output has been described equally playful, bold inwards its purpose of shape as well as colour, as well as oftentimes utilizing the graphic expressiveness of a cartoon style.
“I wanted to exercise something fun as well as graphically uncomplicated for the STUNSIG collection,” he says. “In all of my patterns, I’ve played alongside dissimilar activities as well as expressions. You’ll abide by cucumbers as well as flamingos inwards fun positions – as well as truthful cat noses alongside muzzles, which shape a repeating, pattern.” Malcolm says that creating vibrant images that are humorous, playful, odd, as well as curious, inwards equally many ways as well as places equally possible, is his ultimate goal.
For the past times decade, Pınar Demirdağ as well as Viola Renate take keep created cutting-edge contemporary images, referred to equally “custom-tailored highly aesthetic visual narratives that are timeless for their socially relevant conceptual content.” As an eclectic immature duo, coming from Istanbul as well as Amsterdam, as well as currently living inwards Paris, they are considered amid today’s leaders inwards avant-garde paradigm creation, working alongside brands that are the leaders inwards their lines of expertise. “For the STUNSIG collection, nosotros wanted to add together extra beauty as well as warmth to the precious moments of every day,” says Pinar. “Our promise is that the motifs volition inspire as well as receive people’s imaginations.” The pictures are critically described equally advanced digital craftsmanship, as well as amount of extraordinary details. “They’re reflections of the footing about us, as well as limited utopian, generous messages inwards lodge to spread goodness inwards the world,” says Viola. “We desire people to experience excited as well as positive close the future, dare to trust the unknown, as well as encounter the beauty inwards diversity.”
Cited equally the leader of a contemporary Californian psychedelic-pop aesthetic, Los Angeles–based creative someone as well as designer Steven Harrington is best known for his bright, iconic trend that encourages a two-way conversation betwixt the creative someone as well as viewer. “Much of my travel involves intuition,” he says. “For me, creating fine art is an experience similar to life: you lot actually don’t know what volition take house next. It’s a feeling I drive to comprehend inwards my work.” Indeed, there’s a timeless character to his playful yet contemplative work, which is inspired past times California’s mystique, vastly various landscape, as well as thriving mix of cultures. Embracing a multimedia approach, Harrington’s portfolio includes large-scale installations made of plaster as well as stone, hand-screened prints, limited-edition books, skateboards, as well as sculptures. “For the STUNSIG collection I wanted to create designs that brought a fiddling fleck of the unexpected indoors. Vibrant motifs that create amount your habitation alongside a lot of memories as well as art. I promise that I’ve created something that you lot tin provide to fourth dimension as well as fourth dimension i time to a greater extent than for comfort as well as inspiration,” he concludes.
Team Hawaii
Malin Grundström as well as Anne Gustavsson started working together equally Team Hawaii inwards 2001 afterward graduating from the Beckmans College of Design inwards Stockholm. They apace established themselves past times acquiring a highly reputable customer base of operations using trademark illustrations that were easily recognised for their strong sense of humour as well as odd visual concepts. “We taste working alongside collages when nosotros create patterns,” says Malin. “It’s a fun as well as relaxed method which agency nosotros tin travel together alongside the same image. It’s a fleck similar a chess game where someone adds as well as the other removes. We also used this working method when nosotros created patterns for the STUNSIG collection,” says Anne. The effect was a chaotic collage of a dream footing bursting alongside imagination as well as playfulness – a happy as well as fun universe. This acclaimed duo has contributed to many of Sweden’s largest publications, as well as lately take keep extended their talents into wallpaper pattern as well as products similar the Mother Nature™ Calendar. It would seem that the proverbial heaven is the bound for Team Hawaii.
Tilde Bay lives as well as industrial plant inwards Copenhagen, making everything from spectacular artistic dresses that take keep drawn the attending of people similar Lady Gaga inwards New York to creations for the Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA) inwards Finland. This graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts schoolhouse of Design is also garnering critical acclaim for her travel inwards commercial fashion design, digital impress collections as well as artistic photography. When asked close the inspiration for her work, she responds simply: “I purpose the whole footing as well as my imagination equally a potential workspace area. Some of my motifs inwards the STUNSIG collection are handmade, others are photographs. They all take keep nature, colours as well as graphic elements inwards common. I don’t desire subjects as well as motifs to live seen equally remote islands. It’s the tension betwixt the 2 that’s interesting.” Tilde Bay strives to dissolve the one-dimensional frame as well as instead travel alongside the fusion betwixt dissimilar medias. “I desire the gap betwixt the dissimilar motifs to receive associations as well as create novel experiences,” she says.
Large Format Sketchbooks
Really loving these large format sketchbooks ($9.99 CAD) inwards an array of prints. STUNSIG notebooks as well as boxes by: Frédérique Vernillet Malcolm Stuart Pinar & Viola Steven Harrington Team Hawaii Tilde Bay.
“We desire people to experience excited as well as positive close the future, dare to trust the unknown as well as encounter the beauty inwards diversity.” —Pinar & Viola
Bed Textiles
Includes duvet covers as well as pillowcases. (Twin $19.99).
“Birds as well as bees equally pairs. It’s beautiful to recollect of these 2 dissimilar species coming together. That’s why we’ve given them the same size as well as condition inwards the image. So different, but withal a beautiful sight together.” —Pinar & Viola
Plates as well as Mugs
Made of feldspar porcelain, which makes them affect resistant as well as durable. (Mugs $3.99, Bowls $4.99 Plates $3.99)
“1+1=3. All prints take keep a strong visual even on their own. The 2d you lot mix various prints, the scenery expands as well as creates new, unique as well as unexpected magical stories.” —Tilde Bay
Bags
Make it tardily to abide by your things past times using the pocket within the bag. ($4.99)
“I wanted to capture contrasts inwards my drawings, as well as wildlife are ever exciting. You desire to pet them, but you’re also a fiddling afraid of how they’ll react. They’re exactly equally beautiful equally they are terrifying – a foreign feeling.” —Frédérique Vernillet
Pillows as well as Rugs
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 collection of patterned cushions as well as rugs (Cushions $6.99, Rugs $69.99 as well as $99.99 CAD).
“I don’t desire subjects as well as motifs to live seen equally remote islands. It’s the tension betwixt the 2 that’s interesting. Like here, when a resilient as well as prickly cactus stands lonely inwards a desolate landscape.” —Tilde Bay
T-Shirts
All t-shirts are made from 100% cotton wool as well as come upward inwards small, medium as well as large sizes ($4.99 CAD)
The novel STUNSIG collection launches at IKEA stores inwards Canada equally of June 1st as well as volition live available piece supplies final (approximately 6-8 weeks).