Off beat Melody

These little eye-catchers are by Melody Watson of OffbeatMelody. Very clever! Like them all, but the little seahorse looks to be my favourite.

Watch Art by Dominic Wilcox

As some of you might know the London Design Festival is just finished. A lot of designers took part and lots of cool one off pieces where made. These funky watches are by Dominic Wilcox. He’s attached figures to the hands of watches to signify the interaction between the hands, as well as the idea of fleeting time and unending repetition.

He says, “The miniature figure on the second hand moves around constantly and the figure on the minute hand appears stationary. I spent time thinking about the relationship between the two people, how one passes another repeatedly and I tried to think about when that situation happens in real life or in an imagined scenario.” Posted originally on Design Milk (check out their site as well for lots of designer goodies).

Jewelry by Sharon Boonzaiers

I’d like to focus on a local designer today. I first saw Sharon Boonzaiers leather earings at the Design Indaba earlier this year. Then via a chat with her friend Joanna (of Head on Design) I heard about her again and decided to look-up some more of her stuff. Sharon does paintings, illustrations and design work on commission (including developing the Mascot of AJAX Cape Town). However I wanted to focus on her jewelry in leather. I especially like the little leather birds she does! She has a small showroom in Gardens which is worth checking out; especially since she shares it with some other local talents (address is on her site).

Jewelry by Nervous System

Bumped into these guys awhile back and was completely blown away. Nervous system is a perfect storm of mathematical analysis, biological growth and pure beauty. They use software to regenerate natural growth patterns and algorithms. Just think of corals, bacterial colonies and interference patterns. The system can be constantly influenced by a myriad of factors giving a vast scope for shape and form.

Nervous system even allows other designers to use their algorithms to produce their own results. How cool is that! I think it is superb how these two creators, both experts in their own area, managed to come-up with something new and exciting that utilizes input from such diverse fields. Also, as a little bit of a self admitted math geek, I’m happy to see that once again Math transcends the mundane and produces something so stunning. Go Math!