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Xavier Veilhan

Xavier Veilhan  lives and works in Paris and is one of most well-known and internationally recognized French artist.  His work includes photography, sculpture, film, painting and installation art. His work is often showcased in the public space, with sculptures occupying numerous cities across France and abroad.  On an article in Art in America he says this about his fascination with the early Twentieth Century:

“In the time of Cubism and Futurism, there was this realization that everything’s always moving, and falling. Not falling apart, but falling toward something else. Art had to adapt to this idea. I’m very much into physics. Not that I understand all that much. I enjoy reading about it. You get this idea of the great complexity of the world. One of the reasons why I’m an artist is to try to achieve some sort of harmony from the complexity of the world.” 

More of his work can be viewed on his website and on Instagram.

Images:  Courtesy of Xavier Veilhan.

Pizza 4P’s

Admiring the pizza packaging created by Ki Saigon design studio.  The studio collaborated with Pizza 4P’s to to redesign pizza boxes as symbols of peace.  The chefs came up with three different pizzas of countries in conflict.  The concept is that ‘if ingredients can be together on a pizza, so can we on the planet’.  The boxes were designed with pop up handmade flowers combining the colors of the flags of each country.  They also expanded the project by creating ‘murals of peace’ using the exact spices and seasonings from each of the pizzas.  100% of the proceeds from the sale of the ‘peace pizzas’ went to the UN peace building fund.

Images:  Courtesy of Ki Saigon and Pizza 4P’s.

Malin Gyllansvaan

Malin Gyllensvaan is an illustrator and textile designer based in Stockholm.  She started drawing at an early age and now her designs can be found on textiles for the home and fashion as well as paper goods. Inspired by vintage botanical studies, her illustrations are a homage to the natural world, rendered in pencil and gouache.  Her clients include Ikea, Åhléns, H&M and Anthropologie just to name a few.  We love her work particularly those with a simpler color palettes.

The artist can be followed on her website, Facebook and Instagram.

Images:  Courtesy of Malin Gyllensvaan.

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