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IIDA, AIA, and CoreNet Honor Sustainable Leaders

London Celebrates Architecture with City-wide Festival

New York Exhibits Showcase Design from Bohemian Czech City

Department of Buildings Commissioner Should be Licensed, says AIA NY

Cooper-Hewitt Lauds World's Top Design Talent

IIDA Awards Students Scholarships for Sustainable Design

Fashion Institute of Technology Seniors Showcase Home Projects

Neuberger Museum of Art Spotlights Furniture Prototypes

Whitney Museum Unveils Designs for Downtown Location

On the Move

Governor General’s Medals in Architecture Awarded in Canada

Architecture for Humanity Seeks Funds to Rebuild Myanmar

Herman Miller Launches Green Furniture Line

AIA Wisconsin Announces Design Award Winners

Students Redesign IKEA Chairs for ICFF

Designers Golf for Charity

Ettore Sottsass Exhibition in New York

BKLYN Designs Announces Speaker Lineup

Invista Awards Interiors Using Antron Fiber

Ground Breaking Begins on Major U.S. Border Station  

HDMAG BLOG

What's New in Vegas

Looking for some design inspiration? Check out these latest entrants to Sin City.

Doing Dodd's Work

DMD Associates' divine Mexican debut

Touch of Glass

CorsoStaicoff brings fragile beauty to a Tacoma hotel

Sacred Space

AvroKO enlightens Midtown Manhattan

Off the Grid

Eco-friendly design leads a coastal revitalization

Eco Mountain High

Luxury and sustainability blend happily in Jackson Hole

Luxury Preserved

Rosewood takes natural cues from Riviera Mayakoba's eco wonderland

Eastern Promise

China's first carbon neutral hotel debuts in Shanghai

Sweat the Small Stuff

Auberge Resorts' newest brand pays attention to the sustainable details

Greening the Bar

A living wall grows in Brooklyn

Videos

BIDS PARTNER: LOW IMPACT LIVING

Green Events Across the US, late May and June 2008

Here are some of the major green events going on across the US in the next six weeks. Green Festival 2008–Chicago, May 17 & 18, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois Celebrating what’s working in our communities, Green Festival showcases more than 350 diverse local and national green businesses displaying and selling eco-friendly, fair trade and sustainable products. More [...]

Make Your Own Ethanol with a MicroFueler

Sick of paying $4+ per gallon for gas and also concerned about your carbon emissions? But perhaps you also feel that making your own biodiesel at home may be a chemistry experiment beyond your scientific abilities.  Well we may have the answer for you. A few times a year an eco-gadget comes along that gets us pretty excited. [...]

Green Homes for Regular People

Written by Chris Schille, courtesy of GreenBuildingElements.com The iconoclastic owner of the San Jose tract home featured in this article takes exception to the notion that green is expensive.  Green, to him, is rooted in conservation of all resources, not the least of them being money. Frank Schiavo’s compact, tract-built, three-bedroom ranch-style home in a modest San [...]

5 Eco-Smart Ways to Spend Your Tax Rebate

We know that many of us will need to spend our tax rebate check on critical items like food or rent or paying off debt.  But just in case you have some of your tax rebate check left and you’re looking for eco-friendly ways to spend the money, we have some ideas we’d like to share with [...]

How Green Are Biofuels? A Comparison

Written by Clayton B. Cornell,  courtesy of gas2.0 Biofuels are increasingly lumped into a single category of environmentally apocalyptic dead-end solutions. As the food vs. fuel debate rages on, it’s no wonder that the general public believes this. But not all biofuels are created equal, as the chart below illustrates (click the image to see full size). It’s [...]

Americans, Canadians Score Poorly on New Greendex Ratings

A new survey is out from the National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan that reveals which country’s citizens have the most environmentally-sustainable lifestyles. The report, “Greendex 2008: Consumer Choice and the Environment—A Worldwide Tracking Survey” studies individual consumer behavior in countries around the globe. The report features a “Greendex”– or a numerical index that [...]

Meat or No Meat – Is That The Question?

In my continual quest to do the best I can for the environment, and consequently, myself, I have come up against an issue that I’ve been quietly avoiding for some time: Meat. Yes, meat. And meat-related items like: pork, chicken, sausage, cheese, eggs, milk, ice cream – you know, anything coming from an animal that a person [...]

Go Green with an Eco-friendly Lawn This Summer

Summer is just around the corner, and this is the time of year when we really ramp up our lawn activities– watering, fertilizing, mowing, etc.  And all of these can have major negative environmental consequences. Did you know that over 50 million Americans mow their lawns each weekend, and contribute as much as 5% of the [...]

Are AIA COTE Winners Too Much of the Same?

Written by Philip Proefrock, courtesy of GreenBuildingElements.com The winners of this year’s AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Green Buildings were announced this week, and there certainly are some very attractive buildings among the lot. Some of these buildings are certified, or in the process of becoming certified, to high LEED standards, in addition [...]

10 Ways to Improve Your Indoor Air Quality

Do you like to come home and take a nice deep breath as you relax? You may be getting more than you bargained for! It may come as a shock to learn that according to the EPA the air in our homes is often two to five times more poisonous than the air outside. There are [...]

THE CHAIR BLOG

Apryl Miller Stool and Armchair

Apryl Miller her good self Blogging is not only about finding great people and great stuff: Sometimes great people find you through your Blog, like Apryl Miller. She is an artist living and working in New York City. She loves chairs and occasionally refits chairs. As the weather is finally so kind as to admit Spring [...]

Inactive?

It seems as if there is no activity on the Chair Blog front, but that is only partly true. I started to Tumblr on Chair Blog | Tumblr exactly two months ago and have since then Tumblrd 630 posts, which is an average of 10+ posts a day. It works great. Only the conversion of Tumblr posts [...]

Sensory Deprivation Skull Chair by Atelier van Lieshout

Dutch Atelier Van Lieshout has their Sensory Deprivation Skull on display at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, a new Gallery in Mayfair, London, designated to furniture. A chair you can sit in with the doors closed and without any disturbance from the outside world. Even with a cosy sheepskin! Joep van Lieshout, founder of Atelier Van Lieshout, would maintain it [...]

Martino Gamper: 100 chairs in 100 days in 100 ways, part 2: Walking Chair

Through Viennese Gallery Walking Chair I got acquainted with Martino Gamper first. Martino Camper here as a Chef in one of his recent ventures Italian born Martino Gamper is an artist and chair maker. He studied in Vienna and is located in East London. Martino Gamper, Best Chair Alchemist He is a real Chair-O-Holic who doesn’t only collect [...]

Martino Gamper: 100 chairs in 100 days in 100 ways, part 1: Walking Chair

Martino Gamper at the Walking Chair Gallery in 2006 My first encounter with Martino Gamper was through the announcement of the opening of the Walking Char Gallery in Vienna in september 2006. Walking Chair Gallery in Vienna: Entrance About Walking Chair Walking Chair is a design Studio with a Gallery and a web shop, Walking Things. Their studio is [...]

Chair Blog | Tumblr

Chair Blog | Tumblr front page as at March 13, 2008 About Tumblr, First Impressions Recently I noticed Tumblr. Its a a service to set up a Mini Blog. Its site doesn’t divulge much. It has a Blog, but that is updated scantily. For one reason or another I got curious plunged into it, started with [...]

More Decent Nudevertising for Chairs: The Philippe Starck Ero|s Chairs

The Ero s Swivel chair, Photo Ultra Modern I was wrong in my previous post: There are more nudevertisers for chairs. Only when I saw these pictures again, I realized I had seen them earlier. At that earlier occasion I was not able to grab the photos efficiently and let it pass. Now I have an efficient way [...]

Emeco: An Old Chair Manufacturer Goes Nude

Emeco Navy Chairs Nude Ad About the ad In the March 2008 Wallpaper* Magazine (UK) my eye was drawn to a new ad with nudes seated on an Emeco Navy 1006: One brushed, used by Petty Officer FTG3 | Tony Cost, and one polished, used by Parisienne socialite | Amelia-Louise Enright. Ad by Wieden Kennedy, brand champions to [...]

Reversible Bikini Lounger by Wiel Arets for Gutzz

Bikini Chair by Wiel Arets Bikini Chair in Black and white by Wiel Arets About the Reversible Bikini Lounger Apparently this is the first ever chair that Gutzz produces. The chair is yet in preproduction phase. Gutzz Claims: A reversible reclining chair. It looks so simple, but crazily enough no one has ever thought of it before. Top architect and [...]

Oshar Vazquez: A Young Mexican Designer

Emma 360 Rocking Chair by Oshar Vazquez About Oshar Vazguez He is 23 years old and in his last year studying Industrial Design at Autonoma de Guadalajara University (UAG) in Guadalajara, Mexico. Oshar made the Emma 360 Rocking Chair himself: “..Design is not only a matter of drawing and rendering, but also a matter of putting your hands [...]

PAD STYLE

Golf Outdoor Stacking Set

THIS IS THE COOLEST OUTDOOR SEATING SET I’VE EVER SEEN!  Check it out – not only does it look like a sculptural piece when it is stacked, but it also boasts modern and contemporary twists when taken apart.  This unique seating arrangement, featuring three rattan finish options (cool gray, black brown, and antique brown) and [...]

Modern Corner Office Desk

  CREATIVE CORNERS WITH STYLE IN MIND.  Just because it is a home office, that does not mean it does not deserve to be stylish.  The Modern Corner Office Desk, designed by Rstyle, features four different finishes.  The durable construction allows for frequent use, as well as long lasting appeal.  There is vertical cord management in [...]

Black Leather Love Chaise

SMOOTH, SLEEK, AND STYLISH.  Those are just a few of the “s” words (among many other adjectives) that could best describe the sophisticated Black Leather Love Chaise designed by Global USA.  Available in both black and white top quality leather coupled with polished metal legs, there is no question how durable, timeless, and long lasting [...]

Skygarden S1 Suspension

CONTAINER GARDENING WITH A TWIST.  It is more than a modern and contemporary light fixture.  It is a piece of art.  The Flos Skygarden S1 Suspension designed by Marcel Wanders is a unique and stylish lighting solution designers and dwellers will not want to pass up.  Its simplistic design, featuring intricate latticework detailing, can work [...]

Imperal Nut Design

   CREATE THE KITCHEN OF YOUR DREAMS.  It’s true.  The modern kitchen of your dreams is literally a click away.  When was the last time you hosted a party and thought, “I really wish this space had more pizzazz?”  Read on!  Featured here is what KononDesign.com call the Imperial Nut design.  Featuring mixes of Wood, metal, [...]

Black Sonoma Captain’s Platform Bedroom Set

CREATE A COST EFFECTIVE CONTEMPORARY LOOK!  The Black Sonoma Captain’s Platform Bedroom Set is complete with a headboard, two-drawer side table, and platform.  (The mattress is sold separately.)  The attention to quality given to these furniture pieces gives the appearance of very expensive millwork, but for a fraction of the price.  The smooth black finish [...]

Gia 54″ Modern Double Bathroom Vanity Set

SAVE SPACE WITHOUT SACRIFICING STYLE.  The Gia 54″ Modern Double Bathroom Vanity Set is compact enough to fit into tight quarters, but large enough not to be cramped when it is used by two people.  This wall-mounted vanity set is complete with a vanity, ceramic sinks, faucets, mirrors, and wall cabinets.  Finishes include honey oak [...]

Spinball

IT’S A SEAT!  NO, WAIT – IT’S A TABLE!  Which is it?  Actually, it’s both.  The uniquely designed Spinball collection can be low seating, or a low coffee table.  Featuring a rather large two-tone color palette, the options are truly unlimited when it comes to matching these furniture pieces to the rest of your outdoor [...]

Wave Desk

  MODERN SPACE SAVING SOLUTIONS.  Home offices do not have to take up a lot of room, nor do they need a dedicated room.  Save space, while making a design statement, through use of the Wave Desk.  Not only does this furniture piece feature sleek lines and a minimalist design, it also is large enough to [...]

Trio Contemporary Coffee Table

PLAY MIX AND MATCH WITH YOUR FURNITURE!  Designed by award winning San Francisco industrial and furniture designer Rick Lee, the Trio Contemporary Coffee Table serves up both form and function in perfect proportions.  Not only do designers have the option of removing the drawer, but they can also create a look featuring a built-in dish.  [...]

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BIDS Latest News: Casting Minority Designers for HGTV's "My House Is Worth What?"

Black Interior Designer Showcase (BIDS) Seeks Minority Interior Designers To Appear on HGTV's Highly Popular Reality Television Show, "My House Is Worth What?" BIDS is the first online networking organization of minority interior designers positioned to become the premiere talent casting resource for television networks and production companies seeking multi-cultural interior designers for home improvement and decorating shows. Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) April 16, 2008 -- Black Interior Desi… Continue

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Vote for BIDS! 3rd Annual Global BlackWebAwards begins April 14th

Announcement From the 3rd Annual Global BlackWebAwards: Peace and Blessings, Are you ready? Your opportunity to recognize African, African American and Caribbean excellence online will begin on April 14th. - We've got new categories; The bi-annual "Top Categories" including Most important site for Black People, and others returns; The nomination process has been simplified even further; and - Best of all, it's still 100% FREE! It's the 3rd Annual Global BlackWebAwards - the "Gold Stand… Continue

Posted by Alicia Valair on April 10th, 2008 at 8:33am — 2 Comments (Add)

MONTHLY FEATURED CAREER WEBSITE: NKBA (NAT'L KITCHEN & BATH ASSOC.)


NKBA Student Center
What is the National Kitchen & Bath Association?
The NKBA has been the heart of the kitchen and bath industry for more than 40 years. The Association is dedicated to member success and promoting education and ethical business practices.

This Student Center is designed to help you plan your future as you explore exciting career opportunities in the kitchen and bath industry. You’ll find information about NKBA Endorsed Programs and NKBA Student Chapters across the United States and Canada, career advice and industry news, as well the NKBA Student Design Competition and other opportunities available to NKBA Student Members.

Visit: www.nkba.org for FREE membership!

Forum

Navigating the Green World as a Student

I'd like to begin posting some really good discussions and articles about diving into the Green World as a young, Black Interior Designer. But I want to make sure the topics are truly helpful. What... Continue

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INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE INTERIOR DESIGN

HGTV Blog

Beauty and the Budget

Give yourself the stylish room you deserve with 35 low-cost ways to decorate high-style spaces.

Air Your Dirty Laundry In Style

Don't leave your utilitarian laundry room out to dry. Transform it into a chic and functional space to match the rest of your well-dressed home.

Mother's Day Gift Guide

Our top picks for tech-savvy, earth-friendly and simply stylish moms, because she deserves a well-designed gift on her special day.

Can Carter or Can't He?

Listen to our podcast with Carter Oosterhouse to learn the secrets to his building success and how he stays humble.

How To Decorate Like a Pro

No matter how eco-friendly you are in your interiors, the problem of actually designing them still remains. Here's our quick guide.

Green Color Inspiration

Eco-friendly may be trying to take the color green's thunder, but we're ready to give it it's time in the limelight.

It's Time to Save the Planet

Earth Day is just around the corner (April 22), so HGTV is getting in the spirit with their eco-friendly special, 20 Ways Your Home Can Save the Planet.

Organizing Books by Color

This quick and simple fix turns the most beat up of bookshelves into colorful art exhibitions — no tools required!

DIY Decorating: Botanical Art

Bring spring indoors all year with nature-inspired art from your own yard. Design on a Dime's Kristen Cunningham shows how.

Take It Outside

Outdoor style is in season — last year's patio furniture is not. Check out our timeless tips for outdoor living.

Hospitality Design Blog

Gold Rush

I've secretly been fascinated with the colour gold lately. I've been trying to Infuse projects with touches of gold wherever I can (such as my Star Wars C3PO inspired futuristic vinyl for a lobby bench), and yellow toned hues for paint colours and wall vinyls).




I recently came across photos of this Dolce and Gabbana restaurant called "GOLD" in Milan. It mezmorized me. Perhaps I love the play of light that reflection from all the gold surfaces, or maybe it's the not so subtle decadence and luxury associated with shimmery gold jewelry...or most likely my longing and waiting for a sun drenched summer day.
Lounge Bar



Main RestaurantCeiling DetailWashrooms

Cafe

Madrid Design Motherload

I've come across a new hotel in Madrid that is proving to have opened up a flood gate of design inspiration to me. I'm so excited. I will share more later, but here is a shot of one of the guestroom corridors. Yeah..I'm serious. This is hot.

"Boutique Hotel" Defined?

I came across and article today trying to explain what the term "Boutique hotel" really means. I sort of touched on this in my post about Vancouver's "Boutique" hotels, but I find it interesting this over used term is still being debated. I think in time designers and hotel owners will want to think of new terms to describe their hotel. Especially if they're trying to stand out and be different than all the other "boutique hotels".

Here is the article:

http://www.i-escape.com/links/boutiquedebate.php

The Glamorous (the flossy, flossy too)


I’m not exactly a “Hard Rock” type personality; however I really feel that this is one branding machine that has got the themed hotel down right! I saw some photos of the recently opened Hard Rock San Diego and they really caught my eye. The Hard Rock theme isn’t cheesy like you might think. They are going for the glamorous, VIP treatment that puts the focus on the See and Be Seen clientele demographic. And it works. They even have a suite designed by the Black Eyed Peas. GLAMOROUS!

Hotel Lobby – I love the low level lighting, slick finishes, and overall club vibe. The desk backdrop is a massive LED screen that brings in live feeds from rock concerts around the globe.
A Standard Guestroom – Unique to the layouts of these rooms are the fully stocked “M-bars” for mixing your own drinks. Perfect for an evening of hard partying. I also LOVE the carpet.
Typical Suite – I love the skeleton chair.
One of the Rock Star Suites – Very chic
Black Eyed Peas Suite
Sweetwater Saloon (shown above) is one of 4 dining establishments on site. There is also Mary Jane’s Coffee Shop, Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt, and a new location for the very popular New York based Japanese Fusion restaurant Nobu.
Unique meeting facilities.
There are more than 6 more Hard Rock Hotels in the pipelines waiting to emerge, in places like Panama and Dubai. They’re really hitting the hot jetset destinations.

Smashing Mirrors!

One of my favorite local art "suppliers", that I happened to discover at the HD Expo in Las Vegas of all places last year, is Farmboy Fine Arts. Not only do they have an extensive range of stock photos and art, but they also are doing these amazing acrylic mirrors in cutouts of any shape and size. Because they're acrylic they're light weight and safe. You can also have any graphics printed on top of mirror as well. I think they're awsome!

Cut Velvets

I was lucky to head down to the Nordex trade show at the Seattle Design Center this past Wednesday. Looking for fabrics for a specific project, I noticed a very distinct trend...cut velvets! Almost every manufacturer was carrying them. And lots of bright, bold colours too. Here are some of my favorites that I saw:

Designer's Guild


Sahco

Schumaker


Osborne & Little

The Modern Wingback

Wingback chairs have always fascinated me. They provide such a statement in a room, and often "create rooms". Not so much anymore for traditional men's smoking lounges, I love to use wingback chairs in hotel lobbies whenever possible. Some of these ones with a modern twist are my favorite.

Sloan Chair from Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams - Love the twisted outer turned arms:

Hans Wagner chair - Classic Danish Modern: Aspen Chair by David Edwards - Hope to use this in a hotel lobby in Whistler:


Fly Chair by David Edwards - New Classic:


Rea Chair by Georgetti - My newest favorite!

Conran - sexy form:

History

From the Designboom website, this is apparently the origins and original purpose of the wingback chair...

"the wingback chair is a chair, which is usually fully upholstered, with wings rising up from the arm and joining the back at a 90-degree or wider angle.the original purpose for the wings were assumed to be to prevent drafts in old houses from reaching the upper body or to protect the delicate skin of gentrified ladies from the heat of a roaring fireplace."

Viceroy Anguilla

I was lucky enough to be contacted by the Viceroy's PR team for sales and marketing (Thanks BrieAnn) and given some renderings of the new Viceroy Anguilla property. I had mislabelled the photo in the last post of the Viceroy Miami, and it is now correctly labelled as such.

These photos are amazing! Talk about va va voom sexy! I love the glamour, but I also love the understated and sophisticated palate. I suspect this was done intentionally to give focus to the phenomenal ocean views and not compete with them.

Book me a ticket!

Viceroy Hotels

Owned by Kor Hotel Group, the Viceroy group of hotels is unique in that they all to this point have used the creative talents of one of my favorite hospitality interior designers, Kelly Wearstler. Creating a consistent vision of taking classical elements and manipulating them in contemporary, unexpected ways, Kelly has created these wonderful Viceroy Hotel properties:

Viceroy Santa Monica


Perhaps my favorite Viceroy Hotel, I love the play of scale and sense of whimsey to the furniture and classical elements.

Viceroy Palm Springs


This hotel is VERY monochromatic...in bright yellow! Perfect for a sunny desert getaway. I love the bold tile pattern in the check in lobby.


Viceroy Miami

This palatte is more "sea worthy" and offers a calm respite.

Viceory Mayakoba


On the Mayan Riviera, this hotel respects the local vernacular with interesting shapes in furniture, pattern, and architecture.

IDIBC Award of Excellence

Congratulations to the firm I work for, MCM Interiors, for recently winning the Gold Award for Hospitality Design at this year's IDIBC Awards 2007. I'm proud to have been a part of the team!


 
 

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Architecture Week Plans Unveiled at Grassroots
Architecture Week—established in 2007 in conjunction with a congressional resolution and presidential proclamation marking the AIA’s 150th anniversary—will be observed the second week of April this year.

Announced during the Grassroots Leadership and Legislative Conference Open House February 21, this year’s celebration will kick off with a reception April 8 at the AIA national component headquarters in Washington, D.C., and include the initial release of Architecture: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future as well as the launch of the AIA Blueprint for America Mosaic and Shape of America programs.

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miniLOO, Saving Water With Small Style

I know it's just a toilet, but this miniLOO is quite the attractive alternative when it comes to taking care of your primary and secondary business. MiniLOO utilizes a water-efficient,...

Harmony Art, Organic Fabrics for Interior Home Design

Harmony Art, based in California, is an organic fabric company which was started a few years ago by a woman named Harmony. She designs all the prints, most of which...

A Perspective of Green Building [Quotable]

"Truth is, I've been a skeptic about many aspects of the green building movement. My eyebrow arches when, for example, someone uses bamboo flooring (which is held together with lots...

Selsam Small Turbines - Just Right for Residential?

The bloggers at Engadget picked up on the Selsam small wind turbines, which look a lot like one of those amateur ham radio antennas we used to see on houses....

Green Container Condos in Early Planning for Detroit

A Detroit-based group has a container project in mind for a blighted chunk of land near Wayne State University. News of the project hit the press this morning and local...

Combating Climate Change by Tackling Sprawl

There's a lot of talk here on Jetson Green about the (adverse) impact that architecture and materials choice can have on the environment. So it's nice to know that housing...

Wind Could Power 20% of US Grid by 2030

Here's some interesting news: a new Department of Energy report claims wind turbines could generate 300 gigawatts of electricity -- roughly 20% of the US electrical grid -- by 2030....

Any Thoughts on Quick Crete's Greener Concrete Mix?

After extensive R&D, Quick Crete was able to come up with a house blend of greener concrete called Ecocast. Ecocast is made of 70% post-consumer and industrial waste. The blend...

Énóvo House, Modular and At One With Nature

I pulled out the April issue of Dwell this weekend and noticed an ad for the Énóvo House. My interest was piqued by reading the copy, so I went online...

YAWNs, a Smarter Grid, Oblivious Homebuilders, + the Green Building Market [WIR]

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Botanitst - Modern Tables and Benches @ Orange 22


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The Artwork of Rex Ray




Recently I came across the artwork of Rex Ray - a graphic designer and artist based in San Fransisco, CA who creates the most lovely pieces using collage on wood with resin. I have to admit that I was never a big fan of collage, but his pieces are so modern and fun and remind me very much of the work by artist Jenn Ski, whom I also adore.

(Images via RexRay.com)

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