Photographer Tom Blachford’s New “Centro Verso” Series

For this series, the artist turned the lens upside down and to his hometown of Melbourne, Australia

Tom Blachford‘s Centro Verso photo series flips the lens in a few ways. These upside-down images are of his hometown Melbourne, and have futuristic and dystopian qualities—unlike his previous, inherently warm but noir Midnight Modern collections. This new project is also Blachford’s first foray into CAD (computer-aided design) and 3D printing, programming and more. It has all culminated in a show at Melbourne’s Backwoods Gallery …

LMBRJK

Laser-cut wooden vases painstakingly assembled by hand, piece by piece

As an architect, Jon Kleinhample explored an “ideal aesthetic” through modern forms and daring techniques. Now, Kleinhample brings the same sense of exploration to Belgium-based fabrication studio LMBRJK, which takes a multi-disciplinary approach to creating custom art objects from natural materials. Drawing on CAD-based methods of fabrication as well as traditional woodworking techniques, Kleinhample’s desire to create small, tangible objects (as opposed to large-scale building …