Archive for Featured Artists

Fabrice Peltier

October 20, 2010 · Filed under Featured Artists · Tagged , , , , , ,

Educated as a graphic designer, Fabrice Peltier is a founder and the currently chairman of a packaging design agency: P’RÉFÉRENCE – Dynamiseur de Marques, established since 1985 in Paris, France. He is also the President of INDP (The National Institute of Packaging Design), which he has involved in the establishment in 2003 and the President of PDA since 2009 (Pan European Design Association).

Fabrice Peltier is now recognised as a packaging design expert who strives for more sustainable and environmentally friendly packaging. He regularly gives lectures, writes for a number of professional magazine. He is the editor of a book series on packaging design called “IdPack” from “les Éditions Pyramyd” and the author of several books.

In 2008 he opened the DESIGNPACK GALLERY in Paris, the first public gallery totally dedicated to packaging design.
Last but not least, he has been appointed as an expert of packaging design to the UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation).

For more information about Fabrice and his work, please visit http://www.designpackgallery.com

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Leonor Mendoza Engage Green, Inc.

October 20, 2010 · Filed under Featured Artists · Tagged , , , , , , ,

Leonor Mendoza was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her deep environmental commitment to the Earth and to future generations inspired her to found Engage Green, Inc., a company dedicated to creating designs made of recyclable and/or sustainable materials.

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She considers Engage Green an art project that helps to educate consumers about earth friendly materials and environmentally safe production processes that have low or no impact on the planet.

Mendoza studied sculpture at the Federico Brandt Art Institute in Caracas and had a Residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She has found great inspiration in both natural and industrial processes. Her work is part of the Art Museum of the Americas permanent collection in Washington, DC. Her recycled material sculptures have been featured in shows around the world. Dozens of private collectors have commissioned her pieces. Her work is an exploration of the ecological, domestic and urban in this contemporary world.

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For more information on Leonor and her bags, please visit http://engagegreen.com

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Farm Fountain

April 12, 2010 · Filed under Featured Artists · Tagged , , , , , , ,

Farm Fountain is a system for growing edible and ornamental fish and plants in a constructed, indoor ecosystem. Based on the concept of aquaponics, this hanging garden fountain uses a simple pond pump, along with gravity to flow the nutrients from fish waste through the plant roots. The plants and bacteria in the system serve to cleanse and purify the water for the fish.

This project is an experiment in local, sustainable agriculture and recycling. It utilizes 2-liter plastic soda bottles as planters and continuously recycles the water in the system to create a symbiotic relationship between edible plants, fish and humans. The work creates an indoor healthy environment that also provides oxygen and light to the humans working and moving through the space. The sound of water trickling through the plant containers creates a peaceful, relaxing waterfall. The Koi and Tilapia fish that are part of this project also provide a focus for relaxed viewing.

Farm Fountain is a collaborative project by artists Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs. Ken Rinaldo is an artist and theorist who creates interactive multimedia installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic. Amy M. Youngs creates biological art, interactive sculptures and digital media works that explore the complex relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self.

For more information on Ken and Amy and the Farm Fountain project, please visit
FarmFountain.com .

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Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch

March 15, 2010 · Filed under Featured Artists · Tagged , , , ,

As a little girl, Ingrid would accompany her father on his errands and get lost in the aisles imagining all the things she could make from the bits and pieces she came across. Since that time, hardware stores have been the inspiration for many of the mixed-media sculptures that Ingrid creates.

In Ingrid’s own words; “I see the beauty in common objects and hope that others will too. I use everyday items like steel nuts, washers, vinyl plumbing tubing, clamps and coke cans and transform them into something entirely different from their intended purpose. Through this metamorphosis, I try to draw the viewer in to take a closer look at materials and objects that ordinarily go unnoticed and see them in a new light.”

For more information, please visit Ingridgoldbloombloch.com

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Smart Glass Jewelry

March 3, 2010 · Filed under Featured Artists · Tagged , , , , , , ,

SMART GLASS JEWELRY is handmade in Atlanta, Georgia from glass, sterling silver, and silver solder using traditional stained glass methods. Each piece is individually selected, with variations in shape and texture in the glass ensuring that every piece in the SMART GLASS line is a truly unique and one-of-a-kind original.

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Growing up in Washington State, Kathleen Plate began learning about stained glass when she was a young girl. She observed the art of cutting and soldering the glass by her “70’s craftsy mom” and brings those early skills to her designs today. Her hobby led her to start creating pieces in her spare time, which she sold to local stores in the mid 1990’s.

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The jewelry sold so well that Kathleen decided to put her graduate work in American Literature on hold and take the leap into launching her handcrafted jewelry and accesories nationally. Today, Smart Glass is in more than 500 stores nationwide and enjoys a diverse customer base.

Using a combination of vibrantly colored stained glass, silver solder and sterling silver, Kathleen makes every single piece by hand. So, while Smart Glass styles are simple and easy-to-wear and use, each piece is also a unique piece of handcrafted art. Kathleen designs all Smart Glass items and either makes or directly supervises the assembly of each piece, assuring optimal product quality.

For more information on Kathleen and Smart Glass Visit SmartglassJewelry.com

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Sarah Turner Eco Art & Design

February 18, 2010 · Filed under Featured Artists · Tagged , , , , , , , ,

Sarah Turner is an eco artist & designer who specialises in making decorative lighting from waste plastic drinks bottles.  The bottles are collected from cafes and households in Nottingham, and then they are cleaned and sandblasted.  Then with some clever cutting they are transformed into decorative shapes, totally unrecognisable from their original state.

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Only 5.5% of plastic waste drinks bottle are recycled in the UK.  So these lights aim to do something creative with them and overall save a few bottles from the landfill sites.

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Sarah graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 2008 and has been developing her ideas since.  Her work has been shown at several exhibitions including the Ideal Home Show 2009, where her drinks bottle lights were awarded second place for Concept Product of the Year.  She has also been short listed for the Nottingham Creative Business Awards and has been interviewed live on the BBC Radio Nottingham’s programme, Design Heroes.  She has a Facebook group you can join to keep up to date with new designs and events and her lampshades are available to purchase from February 2010 on her website: http://www.sarahturner.co.uk.  (direct to the drinks bottle products is http://www.sarahturner.co.uk/products.html )

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Join the Sarah Turner Eco Art & Design Facebook group Here

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