Creative Production
Craft, material, workshop and process. There are people behind production.
Northern Clay Center Hosts 28th American Pottery Festival in Minneapolis
Held August 28-30, 2026, the event brought together 15 ceramic artists as the organization's largest annual gathering.
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Coffee shells and e-waste become a marble-weight material called Matek
At Copenhagen's Project Materia show, nine designers worked with Matek, a circular material made from coffee-shell waste and electronic waste; the collection tours to Paris and London this September.
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A supermarket built from 20,000 felt objects
Lucy Sparrow has turned a 4,000-square-foot gallery in Arkansas into a felt supermarket, produced with five full-time assistants.
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Clothing brands move repair into the shop floor
Levi's teaches teenagers to hand-stitch, Uniqlo repairs at 75 stores and Primark has run more than 730 free workshops across nine countries.
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What 1,426 responses say about design fees
A Fast Company and AIGA survey of 1,273 freelance designers and 153 hiring managers finds only 12 per cent feel very confident about pricing.
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Petition calls for the Mackintosh building to be rebuilt
Architect Ruairidh Moir wants ownership of Glasgow School of Art's twice-burnt Mackintosh building transferred to an independent body.
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Repair cafés keep old computers alive with Linux
Germany's two-year Opt Green project has ended, leaving more than 85 repair cafés offering free software installs for machines abandoned by vendors.
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A weaving programme rebuilding the wool chain in Van
The İlmek İlmek Anadolu project at Van Maturation Institute reproduces carpet and kilim patterns from three provinces using natural dyes and local wool.
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Çanakkale's first international ceramics symposium
Running from 18 July to 7 August 2026, the symposium brought together 14 invited artists, 52 papers and eight workshops in north-western Turkey.
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Dölek clay returns to the kiln in Gümüşhane
Architect-turned-ceramicist Elif Işık Canlı works with clay from Dölek village, where only two masters, both aged 70, still practise.
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Seven artists redesign the urn for the US market
Urn Studios, founded in 2024, has released its first US collection with seven artists reworking memorial vessels as designed objects.
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Seven one-off pieces from a Murano furnace
Peter B Staples made Blue Green Works' Garden collection by hand at a fourth-generation Murano furnace, leaving edges and joints visible.
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The basketmaker who weaves costumes and games
Cardiff-based Lewis Prosser uses endangered Welsh and West Country basketry techniques to build wearable sculptures for performances.
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Wicker as the workshop for computational design
Prelab Design Studio in Hyderabad builds algorithmically complex geometries by hand-weaving wicker instead of relying on industrial fabrication.
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A chair printed in one move from recycled plastic
ZHA and Nagami's Echo chair is 3D-printed as a single continuous piece from recycled industrial PETG, including single-use medical plastics.
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Pressed grass panels move into furniture cores
Studio TK is using Plantd's heat-pressed perennial grass panels as the hidden structural core of its Clique Luxe collection.
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Algae biocells that run on light for six years
A collaboration between biodesigner Lucia Giron and Cambridge's Department of Biochemistry turns cyanobacteria into a working power source.
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A 300-Kilogram Steel Totem Enters Bofill's La Fábrica
Luna Paiva has installed a 300kg stainless steel totem at La Fábrica, the former cement factory Ricardo Bofill converted near Barcelona in the 1970s.
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Discarded Tennis Balls Cut and Rebuilt Into Shoes
Soroosh Riazi Isfahani slices used tennis balls and reassembles them into wearable footwear, letting the curve of the cut determine the form.
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Architecture Was Never Only a Human Project
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley read architectural history through microorganisms, arguing that the built environment has always been co-produced with non-human life.
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Foster + Partners Cleared Over Fatal Corniche Window Fall
A 130kg window fell from The Corniche tower in London in 2018 and killed a bus driver. After a five-week trial, Foster + Partners was found not guilty.
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Daniel Greenfeld Makes Mosaics, Not Collages, From Paper
Greenfeld's images read as collage from across the room. Up close the method is different: paper scraps are laid edge to edge rather than layered on top of one another.
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Fifty Artists, One Subject: The Ark at Powerhouse Arts
The Ark brings together animal sculptures by more than 50 artists at Powerhouse Arts, using a single subject to expose differences in material and scale.
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Crocheted Mushrooms That Lead a Walk in the Woods
Lydia Hansen crochets mushrooms and runs Fungi Hunts in Minnesota, walks that introduce hikers to native fungi using her handmade models as teaching tools.
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Bookbinding Techniques Leave the Book Behind
Adelene Koh applies traditional bookbinding methods to contemporary sculpture, where paper, thread and stitch build volume instead of holding pages together.
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Ceramika Matylda Builds Animals That Still Work as Vessels
Dogs, birds and harder-to-name hybrids turn into bowls, planters and boxes in Ceramika Matylda's work, where the joke is carried by the object's function.
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En Iwamura's Ceramics Hide Small Faces Inside Big Gestures
Broad marks left in the clay carry En Iwamura's sculptures from a distance; up close, small faces emerge from the same surface and change how the work reads.
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Jiang Miao Carves Slowness Into the Subject Itself
Jiang Miao's monumental painted wood carvings are built around attention and contemplation, with the exhibition Spiral of Energy setting them beside acrylic paintings.
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Amber Cowan Puts Recycled Pressed Glass Under a Cloche
Amber Cowan melts and reworks salvaged pressed glass with a torch, then sets the resulting scenes inside glass cloches that act as both frame and vitrine.
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De Lucchi Takes Over as Triennale Milano's Creative Director
Michele De Lucchi says he will build the programme around making sustainability part of collective imagination and around support for the Italian craft tradition.
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The Last Wood Column Shop in New York Shuts Down
American Wood Column Corporation has closed after 110 years. Joshua Charrow documented its final days and the roughly 6,000 handmade patterns left on its shelves.
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A Dress That Stays Alive If You Keep Feeding It
Researchers at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology have kept mycelium alive inside a textile, producing a fabric that cleans itself and partly closes its own tears.
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