Ikea's Newest Collaboration Includes Large Sketchbooks + T-Shirts
We receive got a novel sneak peek of a limited edition collection coming to IKEA this June. Six talented artists together with blueprint teams amongst closed links to the fashion manufacture were hand-picked to create the STUNSIG collection, which features prints on everything from fashion photography, digital couture, cartoons to mitt drawings together with collages that were applied to everyday items such equally cushions, duvet covers, boxes together with porcelain. The whole thought behind the collection was to plow something that is otherwise considered ordinary into something that is extraordinary. In improver to habitation furnishing accessories, the collection also includes a alternative of t-shirts, tote bags together with sketchbooks.
“With STUNSIG nosotros wanted to introduce novel artistic prints that are to a greater extent than unique, to a greater extent than fun together with to a greater extent than daring! And apply them to selected IKEA products, turning them upside downwards together with making them extraordinary.” - Henrik Most, Creative Leader for STUNSIG
The novel STUNSIG collection launches at IKEA stores inwards Canada equally of June 1st together with volition live available piece supplies terminal (approximately 6-8 weeks). Let's receive got a look!
Artists:
Frédérique Vernillet makes a shout for of varying the materials she uses together with the collaborations she chooses. H5N1 graduate of Applied Art School inwards 2003, this critically acclaimed creative individual has spent the yesteryear several years creating prints together with patterns for gear upward to have on fashion, tableware, advertisements, magazine editorials, together with fifty-fifty wallpapers. Her run has been recognised yesteryear clients similar Printemps Haussmann, Kerzon, together with Aigle. Frédérique’s sharp, ultra-realistic drawing trend together with her poetic inspiration seeks to modernise the old-fashioned universe of figurative illustrations. Wild animals, colourful birds, luxuriant leafage together with foreign faces compose her surprising, enchanting together with quirky universe. “For STUNSIG, I wanted to capture contrasts inwards my drawings, together with wild animals are ever exciting,” she says. “You desire to pet them, but you’re also a piffling afraid of how they’ll react. They’re exactly equally beautiful equally they are terrifying – a foreign feeling. By using both similar a shot lines together with graphic patterns, lodge together with chaos tin give the axe coexist on the same surface. I honey how exactly a few lines tin give the axe create together with hence much emotion.”
Malcolm Stuart studied epitome together with drawing at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) inwards New York City. “It wasn’t until I did an airbrush apprenticeship inwards a Jamaica Queens NYC mall that my vision came into focus,” he says. With the airbrush at his command, Malcolm became hooked on the thrill of having his fine art incorporated into people’s daily lives. His unique work, piece rooted inwards
drawing together with painting, has evolved inwards the terminal decade to include wearable together with objects of daily use. His output has been described equally playful, bold inwards its purpose of shape together with colour, together with frequently utilizing the graphic expressiveness of a cartoon style.
“I wanted to exercise something fun together with graphically uncomplicated for the STUNSIG collection,” he says. “In all of my patterns, I’ve played amongst dissimilar activities together with expressions. You’ll notice cucumbers together with flamingos inwards fun positions – together with truthful cat noses amongst muzzles, which cast a repeating, pattern.” Malcolm says that creating vibrant images that are humorous, playful, odd, together with curious, inwards equally many ways together with places equally possible, is his ultimate goal.
For the yesteryear decade, Pınar Demirdağ together with Viola Renate receive got created cutting-edge contemporary images, referred to equally “custom-tailored highly aesthetic visual narratives that are timeless for their socially relevant conceptual content.” As an eclectic immature duo, coming from Istanbul together with Amsterdam, together with currently living inwards Paris, they are considered amid today’s leaders inwards avant-garde epitome creation, working amongst brands that are the leaders inwards their lines of expertise. “For the STUNSIG collection, nosotros wanted to add together extra beauty together with warmth to the precious moments of every day,” says Pinar. “Our promise is that the motifs volition inspire together with cause people’s imaginations.” The pictures are critically described equally advanced digital craftsmanship, together with amount of extraordinary details. “They’re reflections of the basis about us, together with limited utopian, generous messages inwards lodge to spread goodness inwards the world,” says Viola. “We desire people to experience excited together with positive virtually the future, dare to trust the unknown, together with come across the beauty inwards diversity.”
Cited equally the leader of a contemporary Californian psychedelic-pop aesthetic, Los Angeles–based creative individual together with designer Steven Harrington is best known for his bright, iconic trend that encourages a two-way conversation betwixt the creative individual together with viewer. “Much of my run involves intuition,” he says. “For me, creating fine art is an experience similar to life: you lot actually don’t know what volition give next. It’s a feeling I drive to enshroud inwards my work.” Indeed, there’s a timeless lineament to his playful yet contemplative work, which is inspired yesteryear California’s mystique, vastly various landscape, together with thriving mix of cultures. Embracing a multimedia approach, Harrington’s portfolio includes large-scale installations made of plaster together with stone, hand-screened prints, limited-edition books, skateboards, together with sculptures. “For the STUNSIG collection I wanted to create designs that brought a piffling flake of the unexpected indoors. Vibrant motifs that create amount your habitation amongst a lot of memories together with art. I promise that I’ve created something that you lot tin give the axe provide to fourth dimension together with fourth dimension in i trial again for comfort together with inspiration,” he concludes.
Team Hawaii
Malin Grundström together with Anne Gustavsson started working together equally Team Hawaii inwards 2001 afterward graduating from the Beckmans College of Design inwards Stockholm. They rapidly established themselves yesteryear acquiring a highly reputable customer base of operations using trademark illustrations that were easily recognised for their strong sense of humour together with odd visual concepts. “We bask working amongst collages when nosotros create patterns,” says Malin. “It’s a fun together with relaxed method which agency nosotros tin give the axe run together amongst the same image. It’s a flake similar a chess game where someone adds together with the other removes. We also used this working method when nosotros created patterns for the STUNSIG collection,” says Anne. The trial was a chaotic collage of a dream basis bursting amongst imagination together with playfulness – a happy together with fun universe. This acclaimed duo has contributed to many of Sweden’s largest publications, together with lately receive got extended their talents into wallpaper blueprint together with products similar the Mother Nature™ Calendar. It would seem that the proverbial heaven is the bound for Team Hawaii.
Tilde Bay lives together with industrial plant inwards Copenhagen, making everything from spectacular artistic dresses that receive got drawn the attending of people similar Lady Gaga inwards New York to creations for the Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA) inwards Finland. This graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts schoolhouse of Design is also garnering critical acclaim for her run inwards commercial fashion design, digital impress collections together with artistic photography. When asked virtually the inspiration for her work, she responds simply: “I purpose the whole basis together with my imagination equally a potential workspace area. Some of my motifs inwards the STUNSIG collection are handmade, others are photographs. They all receive got nature, colours together with graphic elements inwards common. I don’t desire subjects together with motifs to live seen equally remote islands. It’s the tension betwixt the ii that’s interesting.” Tilde Bay strives to dissolve the one-dimensional frame together with instead run amongst the fusion betwixt dissimilar medias. “I desire the gap betwixt the dissimilar motifs to cause associations together with create novel experiences,” she says.
Large Format Sketchbooks
Really loving these large format sketchbooks ($9.99 CAD) inwards an array of prints. STUNSIG notebooks together with boxes by: Frédérique Vernillet Malcolm Stuart Pinar & Viola Steven Harrington Team Hawaii Tilde Bay.
“We desire people to experience excited together with positive virtually the future, dare to trust the unknown together with come across the beauty inwards diversity.” —Pinar & Viola
Bed Textiles
Includes duvet covers together with pillowcases. (Twin $19.99).
“Birds together with bees equally pairs. It’s beautiful to recollect of these ii dissimilar species coming together. That’s why we’ve given them the same size together with condition inwards the image. So different, but withal a beautiful sight together.” —Pinar & Viola
Plates together with Mugs
Made of feldspar porcelain, which makes them behave upon resistant together with durable. (Mugs $3.99, Bowls $4.99 Plates $3.99)
“1+1=3. All prints receive got a strong visual storey on their own. The minute you lot mix various prints, the scenery expands together with creates new, unique together with unexpected magical stories.” —Tilde Bay
Bags
Make it tardily to notice your things yesteryear using the pocket within the bag. ($4.99)
“I wanted to capture contrasts inwards my drawings, together with wildlife are ever exciting. You desire to pet them, but you’re also a piffling afraid of how they’ll react. They’re exactly equally beautiful equally they are terrifying – a foreign feeling.” —Frédérique Vernillet
Pillows together with Rugs
H5N1 collection of patterned cushions together with rugs (Cushions $6.99, Rugs $69.99 together with $99.99 CAD).
“I don’t desire subjects together with motifs to live seen equally remote islands. It’s the tension betwixt the ii that’s interesting. Like here, when a resilient together with prickly cactus stands lone inwards a desolate landscape.” —Tilde Bay
T-Shirts
All t-shirts are made from 100% cotton wool together with come upward inwards small, medium together with large sizes ($4.99 CAD)
The novel STUNSIG collection launches at IKEA stores inwards Canada equally of June 1st together with volition live available piece supplies terminal (approximately 6-8 weeks).
