Stilnest

A new design collective set on raising the bar in 3D printing

Nestled away from the world’s first 3D-printed car and stem cells at this year’s 3D Printshow in London was Stilnest, a selective digital art and 3D printing collective that launched their site globally as we chatted with them. “We want to create a whole new ecosystem around design,” says Stilnest co-founder, Tim Bibow. “We’re hand-picking and supporting designers to become the new rockstars.” In essence, …

Travis Louie: Strange Discoveries

The master creature conjurer and visual storyteller brings his strange new characters to Los Angeles

In Travis Louie‘s imaginary world strange creatures and humans exist side-by-side—and are even sometimes morphed together into one. While much of his work offers a fictional recreation of the family portraits that do not exist in his superstitious Chinese American family, his new show “Strange Discoveries” was inspired by the “weird things” Louie discovered after his father passed away. “I won’t say exactly what because …

Fideli Sundqvist: I Love Paper

The Swedish artist's book teaches the tricks of her very crafty trade

In the summer of 2011, Fideli Sundqvist presented her graduation project at Stockholm’s Konstfack University. In the midst of the overblown gaudy work from the art departments, the conceptual design pieces and rivers of clichéd scratchy pencil illustrations, Sundqvist’s final project, “Tilly & Gul” was a whimsical tale of an elephant and its nameless little yellow chum. Instead of paper and ink, or screen-print or …