Nike Schröder – Urban Threads

Textile artist, Nike Schröder has a passion for art and particularly an interest in materials which started at an early age. Her embroidered works depict snap shots from her daily life. With a simplistic execution of needle and thread on canvas, her technique produces a contemporary illustration style. Schröder‘s customary unfinished threads give texture to the piece and lead the eye giving her work movement and energy. Her latest collaboration is with Selvedge magazine and is featured in issue 52, May/June 2013. See more of her collection on her website, and a selection of pieces are currently being exhibited in Urban Outfitters in Berlin and Hamburg.

Her work is composed carefully and extremely detailed and at the same time seemingly rough and unfinished, leaving the ends of the thread hanging out of the pictures like a possible accident. The loose thread adds an incidental component which is sometimes the result of coincedence and at other times the consequence of precise calculation. Either way the falling threads enrich the work with a movement, the association to gravity and the resemblance of possible body fluids such as blood.(source: Colossal)

Inge Jacobsen 

Inge Jacobsen is a London photographer and artist who combines the glamour’s fashion magazines with grandmother’s crochet. His work made  with the technique of cross-stitch on glossy magazines such as Vogue and Harpeer’s Bazzar is as glamour as craft and retro, and so any number of a magazine becomes unique pieces.

Inge Jacobsen is a London-based artist who takes found images sourced from women’s high fashion magazines and pornographic online content and alters them through embroidery, cutting, and collaging.Jacobsen transforms mass-consumed images into individual commentaries on fashion, gender and marketing. She has created a series consisting of cross-stitched Vogue magazine covers. Creating all of her objects by hand, the work period for one piece averages approximately 50 hours.

                                                                                                                                                                

                 

Photographer Sara K. Byrne 

Sara K Byrne is a photographer currently based out of Boise, Idaho. Predominately shooting weddings along with her husband Dylan, soon the couple will be leaving their hometown and relocating to Portland, Oregon. While sad to leave their hometown behind, the two are looking forward to the challenge of plugging into a new wedding market in the Northwest. 

Fascinated by artists since she was young, Sara began taking photography classes in high school, continuing to spend hours in the dark room throughout college. “After business school, I worked in a marketing firm, but I was really unhappy working there. I started picking up my camera more, as I needed an outlet for my creativity.I couldn't believe how happy it made me, and I knew that’s what I was going to do. I quit my job, started shooting professionally, and I haven’t stopped.” Feeling drawn to the sentimental nature of wedding photography, Sara found her calling documenting love stories. “I have always loved old romantic movies. 

 

"I used to stay up late watching Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, and I’d just swoon. I think it’s why I love wedding photography so much. I think of Casablanca, where Ingrid and Humphrey have that crazy passion in their eyes when they look at each other. I want to believe every couple feels that way or has felt that way at some point.” 

 Tang Chiew Ling 

Fashion in Leaves is ongoing personal project by Malaysian illustrator and artist Tang Chiew Ling that explores various forms of leaves and flowers as if they were fashion sketches. Ling previously merged flora with illustration in another series of images called Object Art, and if you liked this, also checkout Drawing with Leaves.

Twenty-four-year-old graphic designer Tang Chiew Ling places her findings against the frames of her subjects, including Audrey Hepburn, to create soft suggestions of glamour, playfully creating high-fashion silhouettes with foraged organic matter. Decayed leaves feature as prominently in Fashion in Leaves as glossier, waxy specimens and occasional floral bursts of yellow. 'I realised withered leaves could be so beautiful,' she says. 'It just depends on how people see them'

HIROKO KUBOTA

There is always a place for creativity in the world. Come up with something unique and people will pay attention. Just ask Hiroko Kubota, the creator of a collection awe inspiring shirts that are cat embroidered. The cats are embroidered onto the shirts with great attention to detail and the result is almost life-like.

Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota was in the process of making custom sized clothes for her smaller-framed son when he made a small request: could some of the shirts have cats on them? Kubota explains her son was somewhat obsessed with cats and had collected a small library of adorable images found around the web.

After making a few cat shirts the artist posted photos of the pieces online and unsurprisingly they quickly went viral, spurring Kubota to open an Etsy shop under the brand Go!Go!5 where she started selling the shirts at an impressive price tag of around $250-$300 apiece. But price was no object for internet cat fanatics and the shirts have been snapped up almost as quickly as Kubota embroiders them.