DZine Trip

Being a ‘tactile’ artist with an historic love of design-led fabrics particularly those with a quirky vintage, retro or kitsch appeal, designer Vicki Lee aka Love Kitty Pink started to develop a fabric decoupage range of vintage phones, furniture, mirrors and most recently vintage cases and bags. She has definite preferences of styles and design [...]

My work circles around the trinity of aesthetics – function – collection. I develop textiles with various techniques and take them further by combining them into collections and experimenting with materials’ qualities and function/shape. My designs are process driven where vigorous experimentation and selection are key points leading to final product. I believe in adding [...]

Lesley Merola Moya, a very creative textile designer and owner of hunt+gather is a textile/surface print design studio shares her creations which consists of an interesting fusion of her original ideas as well as designs from artists all over the world, which gives the collection a well rounded hand. The inspiration for the prints comes from [...]

I recently came across some magnificent textile print works of Cherie Porter Blackwell. I simply fell in love with the vibrant color palette & pattern design. Cherie Porter Blackwell is a textile artist and printmaker in Northern California currently working as an artist-in-residence at the KALA Printmaking Institute in Berkeley, California, where she is exploring the confluence of textile design [...]

Clouds is a textile project designed by French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for the Danish textile manufacturing company Kvadrat. The project is basically a fabric based modular room-dividing system. The basic idea was to create an easy to install room divider with minimal or no use of tools. The designers developed a fixing system [...]

Description:  This scholarship is provided by the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colourists specifically to students studying textile and apparel design. Nominations are invited from the department heads of all colleges and universities offering degrees in these areas. Selection Criteria: Pursuing an undergraduate degree in a textile field Design/fashion focused SAT scores Demonstrated leadership experience [...]

I recently came across textile design works of  New York-based  Textile designer, Hoonju Ko and I was really impressed with Hoonju’s brilliant colour combination and strong conceptual designs. Hoonju’s designs are simple yet very modern & vibrant.  ”I approach every project with an artist’s perspective and am constantly researching about new trends & materials that [...]

Born in Spain & presently based in London,   Cristian Zuzunaga is a young & dynamic textile designer who has drawn inspiration for his textile prints from urban elements. For his “Squaring of the circle” collection he zoomed into photos of cityscapes – getting up so close that they dissolved into a pixel structure of tiny [...]

Designed by London based design studio Raw Edges, the selvedge armchair is created from the linear elements of the discarded portion of the ‘Hallingdal 65′ fabric which was first produced by Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat and designed by Nanna Ditzel in 1965.  The selvedge, normally found lining the edges of a textile while on a [...]

Designed by Neora Zigler, this 3D carpet is created using two layers of synthetic fabric which are individually sewn to create this stone pebble heavy texture.  The carpet which looks light in appearance is relatively very heavy. The design philosophy was to create an object not necessarily to hurt the user, but to make them conscious [...]