Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture

Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture‘s vivid photography makes for engaging eye candy, bringing together a diverse mix such as Victor Vasarely’s op-art and Michael Lin’s flamboyant florals. Get it from Amazon. Also on Cool Hunting: MoMA 1965: The Responsive Eye and New Vasarely Book

Urban Cast-Away

For the second installment of Construkt, Marithé+François Girbaud's quarterly artist-designed series of objects, New York-based designer Dror Benshetrit created these limited edition handmade ceramic sculptures and jewelry pieces called Urban Cast-Aways. The result of experimentation with ceramic, Benchetrit ultimately used fur to make the collection that includes one-of-a-kind art objects, rings, bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. Like Dror's broken "Vase of Phases" and martini glass, his …

Mary Lou Pavlovic

Originally inspired by her reaction to the UK punk culture of the 1980s, Australian artist Mary Lou Pavlovic created a "Facist" series covering work boots in what looks like multicolored candy decor. She has since gone on to realize ballet shoes on knife pointes, jewel-encrusted weapons, and most recently she teamed up with Pol Oxygen to create a mosaic-covered Mini shown at the Milan Design …