BeatWoven Translates Music into Textiles

The London-based studio analyzes music through a custom software program to produce tangible visual patterns

By the time he passed away in 1943, Russian pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff had left a legacy: one that penetrated beyond the realm of classical music, and infiltrated the lives of the audience and the works of other artists. Featured in Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” a wide range of films and even being sampled by the Beastie Boys, Rachmaninoff’s Romantic-era compositions have influenced artists …

FPOAFM’s One-of-a-Kind Ceramic Artworks

The experimental collective explains why they're giving away a hundred handmade cups and the importance of staying original

Ceramics seem to becoming more and more like T-shirts, in which the cup or bowl becomes a vehicle for something catchy, cute or plain-old homey. One collective that’s highlighting the neglected creative potential of the historic medium is FPOAFM, a studio that’s fond of collaborating with other artists to produce functional, one-of-a-kind artworks with personality—and whose prices are (mostly) in the tens, not the thousands. …

Daniel Palillo: Paintings About The Fashion World

This weekend in NYC, the atypical Finnish designer forgoes runways to show his thematic collection in an art gallery

Daniel Palillo—a high school, art school then fashion school dropout—never intended to become a fashion designer. Which explains why he avoids the industry as much as he can: rather than following seasonal trends, his work is built on the pillars of art, narrative and his intuition (with humorous flourishes). The result is bold apparel (mostly in the form of oversized tops) that takes a high …