The fabulous felt collages of Jacopo Rosati

I'm currently starting a textile project with one of my first year groups. Serendipitously, amazing blog its nice that featured the amazing felt collages of Jacopo Rosati back in December when I was thinking about the project. The work is amazing, and so much fun. I know my first years will love it and hopefully it will really inspire them to get some of their own fabric collages going.

I emailed Jacopo for information on how he makes the collages. He's such a nice man! He emailed me back almost immediately with a link to a video of his process (featured below). Can't wait to see what work the pupils produce, i'll let Jacopo know how they get on!

Anni Albers - Original Op Artist?

I'm doing some research for a vj animation i'm currently working on for Slow Motion Heroes. It's for the upcoming "Wall of Sound" gig on the 28th of December. I'm doing a short projection animation of about 4 minutes, each minute reflecting one of their 4 eps, at the moment i'm working on the (soon to be released) "one liners" ep. My idea was to make something based on op-art, initially I had the work of Sol LeWitt in mind, the textile designs of Anni Albers (which I LOVE!) also sprang to mind as being very similar. I just wanted to share some of the images i've found here. If you're interested, Gunta Stolzl (her peer) also has some amazing textile designs, very inspirational stuff!