Split Atom Ring Featured on The Zoe Report
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Interlock Necklace featured in Glamour May 2015
The W Necklace from Alphabet Collection featured in Bon Appétit Magazine
Takis Plays with Magnets
Takis is a kinetic artist living and working in Greece. His work focuses on electromagnetism, a force he describes as a fourth dimension that “binds together in space, objects, metals, roaming particles of the cosmos.”
Magnets play a vital role in the function of his sculptures. Magnetic Painting No. 7 (1962) uses strong magnets behind a solid yellow canvas to make metal objects float in front of the painting’s surface. In another one of Takis’s works, Ballet Magnetique I (1961) he makes a metal sphere hover and orbit above the surface of the sculpture with the use of an electromagnet.
The concept of magnets and suspension has inspired us to think differently about the design of our upcoming spring collection. Everything from the materials to the closures will be an integral part in the design of jewellery.
Moms Love META
Get your mom something unexpected for Mother's Day this year: A GIFT!
That's right, we know you thought that simply calling her was enough last year.
Well, it wasn't and this year she wants jewelry! We know this because we polled both of our own mothers and the necklaces shown above are their top picks. Victoria's mom would like the Neutron Necklace with black and white stone [left] and Astrid's mom would like the Interlock Necklace [right]. What would your mom want?
Metalepsis Projects is offering 25% OFF ALL JEWELRY through Mother's Day with the code 'METAMOM' to help you give your mother [or aunt/wife/SELF] something thoughtful and timeless.
Shop the collection here.
Metalepsis: Out and About for Spring
Metalepsis pieces are popping up all over the west coast like new spring blooms. We love how Alicia Lund of Cheetah is the New Black adds a bit of intrigue to her polished outfit with the Orbit Cuff, and how Grasie Mercedes of Style Me Grasie and E! News uses the String Necklace as a delicate architectural detail in her clean-lined and minimal getup. Nice work, ladies.
Metalepsis for Chromat 3D Printed Jewelry Collab
Fashion week is over and we've finally had a chance to sort through all our photos of the Metalepsis for Chromat collaboration. We designed 3D printed chokers, rings, wrist cuffs, and architectural encasement pieces to hold lasers for the Chromat Mindfiles collection, which showed as a part of Made Fashion week. And we were in good company. Chromat also collaborated with Shoplifter [who frequently works with Bjork on costumes and imagery], Kerin Rose Gold of A Morir eyewear, and latex designers Tableaux Vivants. The collection was inspired by Martine Rothblatt and her concept of 'digital immortality.'This spring the Metalepsis for Chromat pieces will be available in 3D printed nylon on the webshop. Below are some of our favorite photos of the runway show and behind the scenes.
Images by Shoko Takayasu for Vogue Italia.
Photos by Getty Images.
Split Atom ring Featured on Sight Unseen's Saturday Selects
check it out here.
Studio Sale @ Wwake Studio
simple circle
sneak peek! the simple circle necklace is in product development RIGHT now.
El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky is one of our favorite artists. He worked not only as a painter but also as an architect, graphic designer, and photographer, and was one of the founders of the Russian Suprematist art movement, where artists create based on “the supremacy of pure artistic feeling” rather than realistic representation. His bold, graphic, and geometric paintings known as PROUNS - and his talent across so many design platforms - inspired the mood and custom font creation for the Alphabet Edition.
Element Edition India Ink Prints
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For our inaugural post we thought we'd revisit one of our favorite art projects: a series of india ink prints that accompanied the Element Edition. These prints are enlarged woodcuts in the same modular geometries of the edition's bronze necklace pendants. To make them we drafted the outlines of the shapes in CAD software, then used a CNC mill to cut the shapes out of plywood. The plywood printing plates were then brushed with india ink and stamped on paper. Each piece comes out as a watery but bold graphic that further explores our interest in the gray area where mass production and customization overlap.
