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spaghetti kiss ceramics and apparel

posted by the scholar on September 18th, 2007
filed under: home accessories, personal accessories, art, artists, clay, illustration
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look at this absolutely lovely stoneware from baltimore husband and wife artists shawna pincus and mike bracco from spaghetti kiss. shawna focuses on ceramics and has a bfa from the maryland institute college of art. she fires the pieces to cone 6, adds and removes glazes, and the appealing texture is achieved by pressing found objects into the clay before it is dry.

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i have to confess i was so obsessed with these ceramics at the fair that it would seem like i missed mike’s apparel, but i must mention it too! the images are drawn by hand of course, and screened onto soft cotton tees:

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mike has also created a graphic novel called birth that will soon be available in comic stores near you.

quite a talented couple, and oh! did i mention that shawna has a blog?

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guido crepax valentina furniture

posted by the scholar on September 8th, 2007
filed under: home accessories, art, artists, design, illustration, wood
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italian graphic artist guido crepax had sweeping influence over the european comic art community, and even though he passed away in 2003, his memory continues to be honored in the form of these fantastic furniture pieces. the collection features valentina, his most famous 1960’s heroine in a comic series, physically modeled after silent film star louise brooks.

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the furniture collection is crafted from polished mdf and aluminum, and sealed with lacquer. although the pieces are linear and orderly, they’re more relaxed too, due to guido’s signature breezy, dreamy eroticism. he also tucked homages to his modern art contemporaries into his work, including rene magritte, man ray and roy lichtenstein.

furniture available at moss.

via blue ant studio

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