How can we assume that there’s no story to tell through craft? That our emotion can’t come through in to these natural materials? I suppose thousands of years…
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Reverberating Colour – Tone Project by Korean Designer Yun Sohyun
Korean Designer Yun Sohyun’s intent with this series titled ‘Tone’ was to create an “artwork in everyday life” and has achieved this through the use of acrylic and various colours combinations.
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Afterimage of Beginning – Sculptural Furniture by Designer Byung Hoon Choi
South Korean designer Byung Hoon Choi has studied design and crafts extensively throughout his career, working closely with craftsmen to make his ideas come to fruition.
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A Study of Blending Light – Mellow Collection by Hattern Design Studio
Hattern, meaning Happy Pattern, released their very first project titled ‘Mellow Collection’, a series of Acrylic block vases that use both blurred and clear surface in a variety of colour gradients.
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Division & Growth – Segmentation Series by South Korean Artist Jiyong Lee
Titled ‘Segmentation’, this series of glass sculpture by Jiyong Lee is inspired by the journey of a cell, starting with a single cell and going through a million divisions to become life.
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Handcrafted Paper Tableware – 21g by Korean Designer Seung Binyang
Eindhoven-based South Korean designer Seung Binyang has applied ott-chil to paper to make a new material for tableware that’s waterproof, durable, sterilised and eco-friendly.
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Memory of Emotions – Translucent Porcelain Vessels by Korean Potter Inwha Lee
South Korean ceramic artist Inwha Lee creates these mesmerising porcelain vessels, which have unique abstract sections. The walls are so fine that light can completely pass through them.
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Twisted Wood – Seating by South Korean Furniture Designer Se Hwa Bae
A selection of fantastic furniture by Se Hwa Bae, a South Korean woodworker and furniture maker who lives in Paju, Korea. The forms themselves are modern, striking, and sculptural
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Making Cuts & Overlapping – Minimal Porcelain Vessels by Bomi Lee
South Korean artist Bomi Lee has constructed porcelain vessels that are made by cutting rectangular and hexagonal forms out of clay and overlapping in unusual ways.
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Articulating the Unseen World – Nature Captured by Photographer Boomoon
I’ve been admiring the work of South Korean photographer Boomoon, who’s been able to capture fog, snow and water as part of nature itself. Capturing the essence of a natural environment.
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A Beautiful Life – Short Film on South Korean Ceramic Artist Lee Kang-Hyo
Watch this brilliant documentary by Goldmark on Lee Kang-Hyo, one of Korea’s finest living potters, where they visit his studio where he creates a mixture of tableware and sculpture.
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Work That Has Life – Metal & Concrete Objects by Kenny Yong Soo Son
Based in Sydney, South Korean creative Kenny Yong Soo Son is a very talented maker that crafts exquisite objects from metal and concrete.
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