The Intersection of Design & Motherhood
By Koseli. Images by Scott Norsworthy via Dezeen.
During the Toronto Design Offsite Festival in January, Mason Studio filled a warehouse full of motion-sensor concealed lighting and scrunched up tissue paper—and transformed the entire space into a room of luminous, pillowy clouds.
Wouldn’t it be cool to mimic these for a party? Or some big event? I wonder how hard it would be…
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My name is Gabrielle Blair. I'm a designer and mother of six. We currently live in a farmhouse in the French countryside. I post on where design and motherhood intersect.
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wow!
Or how about recreating this for a party;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21034217
I love the work in Mona’s link. I’ve seen it in the past. I always love it when artists come up with something clever like that. So simple really…genius.
Are you familiar with the work of Max Streicher? He has some gorgeous, large scale cloud works in his resume. Google him and let me know what you think.
THAT is amazing! so beautiful. I can imagine it is pretty hard to reproduce…don’t you think? xo