My love for textiles began while I was at university. I have always loved and appreciated fashion and obviously paired with that is the fabric involved in making a garment so desirable, but realising other aspects of textile design further from the garment was an appreciation that came later. Now I’m obsessed! I love rugs and wallpaper the most I think. For me it is probably a medium in which my graphic design can be most easily transferred to. Its not only the beautiful colours and shapes but the feel. I’m like child in a museum when your not allowed to touch the art work. All I want to do is roll around on it! So while I was having my lunch time exercise – web surfing – I stumbled across this design studio that held an exhibition (way back in 2008) where they made their graphic design work into carpets. What a delight this was for my eyes! The perfect collision of graphic design/ typography/ colour/ pattern and textiles!
Dutch studio Thonik, Graphic Tapestries at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2008 and exhibited Graphic Carpets featuring their work at the Shanghai Art Museum in the same year. Now M/M studio has done the same thing with woollen rugs showing in London called The Carpetalogue.
Thonik by you and M to M of M/M (Paris):
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