Asia Now: Exploring Design Culture

Original concepts and products from the East's design elite

With former Droog co-founder Gijs Bakker at the creative helm, Taiwanese design collective Yii is sure to steal the show at the upcoming exhibit “Asia Now: Exploring Design Culture” curated by Designboom. Kicking off tomorrow in L.A., “Asia Now” is a major part of this year’s Dwell on Design events. In addition to the objects from Yii (pictured exclusively here), the exhibition showcases the works …

Yall & Us

Our picks from an Atlanta design exhibit featuring fresh creative talent

Our friends from Brooklyn creative studio Wintercheck Factory recently hit Atlanta’s Yall & Us fair—a design exhibit put on by multi-disciplinary firm People of Resources as part of Modern Atlanta‘s design week. Combining southern hospitality with a fresh perspective on design fairs, Yall & Us’ novel concept helps make Atlanta a contender among emerging creative hotbeds. Check out a few of the exciting new finds …

Mark Fox Wallpaper

Beautifully reconfigured text inspires a series of artist-designed wallpaper

A multi-faceted artist, one of Mark Fox‘s many talents includes reconstructing various religious and mythological texts into beautiful script arrangements. Recently gracing the cover of The National’s High Violet album, Fox’s delicate script sculptures are again reduced to the 2D format in an elegant range of wallpaper for Studio Printworks‘ Great Contemporary Artist series. “Monstr,” his current solo exhibition at NYC’s Larissa Goldston Gallery, includes …