30x30x3 Project - Allison

http://the3rsblog.wordpress.com/project-log/ - different lighting and shapes; inspiration for the recycled lighting.

Torafu Architects

On the same website as Hiroshi, I also found the Torafu Architects who create these "Air Vases". They pull out to create these different shaped vases, which you can shape yourself. I really like the simplicity of the vases, but I also like the way they've used images more recently on the paper. I can't imagine they're being any way to recreate this and do it myself unless I had a lot of spare time.

http://en.kamigu.jp/item/airvase_space.html

Kami No Tsubo/Hiroshi Kajimoto

I found these makeshift vases that you can make yourself; the design, Hiroshi sells the kits which you assemble yourself around a plastic bottle. I like the concept of how he's taken a plastic bottle, something you'd either throw away or recycle, into a more useful piece.

http://en.kamigu.jp/item/kaminotsubo.html

Jen Stark

Using paper, Jen creates these layered flower looking sculptures; she handcuts all the paper to get the layers correct; I like the way she uses colours to enhance the effect of the piece, though I wonder if it would work the same with crisp wrappers?

Cathy Wu

Using dried fruits to create jewellery I found very interesting; I'd love to try doing this myself, however drying the fruit might take a large amount of time up.

I like the way she builds up the layers to create a flower look; I wonder if this would work with wrappers and newspaper

Upcycled Vases + Mary Jean

I found these really unusual vases made from rolled up wrappers while researching; I really like these vases and I'd like to try it out myself.
The artist is Mary Jean, she uses magazines and colourful paper to make these; she also makes flowers out of plastic bottles and decorations.
She sells most of her creations here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/MaryJeansThings?ref=top_trail 

I also found this interesting shaped one that I can't seem to find anymore of.



http://www.etsy.com/listing/87645788/pink-red-black-white-silver-upcycled

Nicola Freeman

Looking into Food Art, I came across these sculptures by Nicola Freeman, a graduate from Wolverhampton; I really like the way she's used plaster and acrylic to create the subtle hints of colour. Maybe I could use this technique and try out making smaller versions. 

Gaetano Pesce & Fish Design

These vases reminded me a lot of strawberry laces and looks as if it's done out of glass; I like how it looks like something it's not, another lead to look into maybe? 

Yaya Chou

Using sweets to create everyday objects and sculptures; I really like the way the light comes through the sweets and doesn't look like sweets until up close.

Joey Veltkamp

Joey makes these adorable little ghost like creatures in ceramics and has coated some with glitter.

I found them after searching through many pages of images looking for some sort of art/sculpture with glitter involved.

I really like these little sculptures, they're original and quirky, and some are very brightly coloured. They remind me a lot of the bright colours used in AMW, and Jim Lambie's record players.

http://www.i-m.co/jveltkamp/joeyveltkamp/etcetera.html 

Rachel Kaye

Rachel Kaye appears to be a painter, however, I found her through her glitter sculptures.

The two sculptures look as if they are mosaic almost with the way the glitter is shaped. I love the way that the colours contrast from each other and the glitter gives that perfect shine to it and doesn't look 3D, more like a standing flat pillar with no sides.

Her paintings are a lot different to these sculptures, as they're very abstract, the colours contrast each other and the patterns are also very unusual. 

http://www.rachelakaye.com/index.php?/works/

Jim Lambie

Jim Lambie was a large part of my inspiration to use the glitter aspect of AMW; the glitterized record player he did called "Ska's Not Dead" was one of the pieces I first looked at of his.

I like the way the glitter has picked up the details on the buttons and the way it brings it out against the white background. I'd like to try something like this on smaller objects, such as batteries or pens.

Some of his other work, such as with the brightly coloured tape, I find interesting as the colours really stand out and look interesting against the backgrounds they're put on, like the stairs and floors. They're so out of the ordinary and this is what I like about them.

Magda Sayeg

Magda was one of the first people to start yarn bombing; she has worked with many famous companies like Mini Cooper, Absolut Vodka and Smart Car with her projects of crocheted or knitted yarn bombs. Some of her most famous projects were the yarn bombed bus in Mexico.
The colours she uses stand out against the normal everyday environments she puts them in, making them easily noticeable from large distances.

I'd like to play around with the colours I could use, inspired by how Magda uses colours to represent her own work.

http://www.magdasayeg.com/home.php

Juliana Santacruz Herrera

Juliana braids fabric, dyes it and uses these coloured fabric braids to fill in pot holes around Paris.
Her work I find interesting as she takes the fabric out of the textiles realm and into the sculpture. Her bright colours stand out against the plain grey road, a lot like Anthony Logan's work stands out against the environment he puts in it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39380641@N03/
http://www.designboom.com/art/juliana-santacruz-herrera-decorative-potholes/

Nike Savvas

Nike Savvas is an Australian artists whose less known here; she recently opened up a new exhibition in Leeds art gallery called "Liberty And Anarchy".
In this exhibition she uses ribbons and coloured string to create her sculptures that inhabit the room as well as large wooden frames.

The way she uses the string to create geometric inspires me to try something like this, but with a line of crochet to act as string, or even a line of knitting. I think it would have to be on a bigger scale than the sculpture, but the frame would be the main thing to create, maybe this could be done out of knitted wool instead of wood.

http://www.leedsstudent.org/2013-01-25/ls2/arts/art-liberty-and-anarchy