Textile Lucy Poskitt is prepared to teach us what it takes. Based in Victoria, BC, she teaches weaving workshops across Canada, but you can also be inspired from afar by following her Instagram page.

Working with a looser and more experimental hand, Poskitt draws inspiration from local landscapes and lore and works with the belief that with the proper techniques under your belt you can confidently create and explore your own style.

According to Poskitt, workshop materials and supplies are locally sourced or handmade when possible.”Most of my professional work is made with traditional materials–wool, linen, and cotton yarn,” she noted in an interview with KOEL Stories. “When I’m creatively stuck or have time to play around, I really enjoy more unusual, less traditional fibers–horsehair, leather scraps, paper, ropes and trims, wood veneer, mylar… you name it!”

Her techniques include frame-loom weaving—a style of weaving that is fast to set up, easy to use, and portable. According to her website, this technique is most often used to make tapestry-style weavings, ie – decorative art pieces that will hang on the wall as art when completed – but looms can also be used for making small pieces that could be used as jewellery, placemats, coasters, a bit of fabric to use as a panel on a cushion, and more.

The post Delve Into Weaving with Lucy Poskitt appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

She remembers being knocked off her feet by comic books like The Sandman by Neil Gaiman or Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka, and spending hours in the comic section at her local library, obsessively searching for new authors. “I felt attracted intuitively by those covers with dark and reddish colors,” says Hafid.

But it took some time for her to find her own artistic voice within the blossoming comics scene. Having graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, Hafid also has a degree in Arts Applied on the Wall from the School of Arts and Crafts (Llotja de Barcelona).

Now working full time as a freelance illustrator, she combines illustration with her comic projects. “In my illustrations, my characters are part of the representation of very abstract ideas,” says Hafid. “Anyways, when I draw my comics I think there is something about me, especially as the stories are usually based on my own experiences or thoughts. In any case, I think there is some distance between me as a person and my works due to my symbolic and geometric style.”

And though the finished work is strictly digital, her starting point is always analog. “I always draw by hand!” she stresses. “I always begin with freehand sketch. Then, I polish it with rulers and circle templates. Sometimes I use the light board to polish the drawing even more. Finally I scan it the illustration, and clean the drawing with Photoshop very well before adding the color with it.”

Show her some love on Instagram.

The post The Symbolic Comics of Nadia Hafid appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Covered in cross-stitch embroidery they present motives that are typically Swedish. Those include small red cottages in the countryside with blue sky and birches, as well as wild animals, like elk, deer, and birds, often seen in woodlands.

Born in 1957 in Gothenburg, Wikander has been working as an artist since 1986, but has been collecting embroideries years before that. “I started to collect cross stitches […] but I didn’t know what to do with them,” she told HAHAMAG. “I found them beautiful, and I admired the work behind.”

It was only in 2012 that she began to “dress up” vintage objects with her collected embroideries. “I decided to try to cover things from the ’70s, a sewing machine, a typewriter for example, and it went well,” she explains. “It was like you saw the objects for the first time, and you weren’t sure of what you were looking at.” The finished objects are statement pieces, to say the least.

The post Ulla-Stina Wikander Covers Vintage Objects In Embroidery appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

An author, blogger, and designer living in a suburb of Washington, DC, DiPirro launched PositivelyPresent.com in 2009 with the intention of sharing her insights about living a positive and present life (something that didn’t always come easy to her!). 

The posts shared on her website and Instagram page – full of uplifting mantras and colorful illustrations – strive to support the idea that life is best lived if it’s lived right now with a positive attitude. “Be positive. Be present. This is your life,” reads her website. As such, her website includes tips for being more positive, advice for living in the moment, articles on how positivity can improve you (as if we need more proof), and resources and inspiration for being positive and present, among other resources.

There’s even a designated post about staying positive in times of pandemic, which includes some resources for you to download if you’re at home and are looking for some activities to keep you uplifted and inspired. “Though many of us try to, it’s impossible to live happily in the past or in the future,” reflects DiPirro on her website. “And if the now is all we have, why not make this moment a positive experience?”

Here are some other positive reminders:

The post Here’s How to Stay Positive appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Based in Birmingham, Redfern ties her love of nature to her childhood. “When I was growing up we had a caravan in Wales and I loved the wildness of the landscape,” she told Ballpitmag. “I think going there instilled in me a great love for nature and the outdoors.” After completing an art foundation course in college, she worked with mixed media textile and paper collage before moving on to hand embroidery in 2015.

“I love the fact that it takes quite a long time to stitch a piece, so it is quite a meditative process,” she says, “and I find all of the materials really pleasing; the colorful threads, beads, lovely natural colored fabric (natural calico is my fabric of choice) and the wooden hoops.”

Indeed, hand crafting and embroidering are an easy recipe for mindfulness, and Redfern herself provides downloadable embroidery patterns on her Etsy shop, alongside a small selection of embroidered hoop art. “One of the things I find most rewarding about creating embroidery patterns is the thought that they are hopefully bringing enjoyment to people,” she says, “so I would like to keep creating new patterns, as well as working on new original pieces to further explore my favorite subject matter.”

You might just be inspired to take on embroidery yourself!

The post Chloe Redfern Will Inspire You to Embroider appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

According to Holliday, her messages are aimed at other women, encouraging them to tap into what she calls their “God-given gifts.” And with an impressive following on Instagram, women (and men), are clearly tapping in.

“From a young age, I would sketch comic strips and draw people,” recalled Holliday in an interview with Freelance Wisdom, describing her creative upbringing. “I never took it too seriously until after I finished college with a degree in marketing,” she notes. “I decided that I wasn’t really doing what I loved to do, and then after the birth of my first child, I got an insane passion to go for what I always dreamed of.”

Art started taking root again in her heart, and Holliday listened. “I started sketching illustrations and sharing them online,” she says. “At a really wild time, I was pregnant with my second child, I decided to take the leap to freelance and it’s been a thrilling, fulfilling, and adventurous ride,” she adds.

You’d want to join her ride:

The post A Time for Healing: Follow Jena Holliday’s Inspiring Instagram Page appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Miumiu’s Youtube channel is only a week old but it already has around 3,000 subscribers. We predict that it’s going to grow rapidly so start following it before everyone else does!

Miumiu has covered songs like Fly Me to the Moon and Moon River. “Thank you for your encouragement. I will continue to study hard. To fulfill my dream to be an excellent guitarist. Please forgive me for my poor English. This is not my native language. I’ve tried my best to do it well,” she told Laughing Squid.

See her performances below.

The post Six-Year-Old Miumiu Shares Adorable Guitar Covers appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

With a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design, Goren admits that fashion and patterns play a big role in her work. “I like fashion and people’s personal styles,” she relayed in an interview with The Great Discontent. “When I draw patterns, that’s a big part of my work and drawing girls and the clothes they wear makes a lot of sense. I don’t know if it was ever conscious. I draw what I’m interested in.”

Being a fashionable woman herself, she tends to focus on other fashionable women, painting them with striking, eye-popping colors. “People often ask me about my choice to draw women with all different body types and if I’m making feminist art,” she remarked. “It’s like, well, it’s not not feminist, but I’m not choosing to draw all different body types because I’m trying to make a feminist statement. I just have the knowledge inside of me that, yes, all of these body types exist. That’s a fact.”

With almost 90k followers on Instagram, people are indeed taking note. Her work has also attracted commercial clients and sought after collaborations with brands like Anthropologie, Chronicle Books, Kate Spade, Penguin Random House, Revlon, and Vogue.

Follow her creative journey through Instagram:

The post Ths Sun-Drenched Illustrations of Leah Goren appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

An endless explorer, his illustrations are immersed in greenery, providing a summery backdrop to our gloomy winter days. “I have lots of influences,” admitted the Australian artist. “I think my design background gave me an appreciation for people like Ray and Charles Eames, Charley Harper, Bruno Munari and other designers from the ’60s, but these days I’ve branched out a lot with my influences. I really enjoy the paintings of David Hockney, Peter Doig, Fred Williams, and Adrian Genie, as well as folk artists and other illustrators.”

Having authored and illustrated five books (all published by Penguin Random House), Martin’s creations have also been featured in esteemed publications like GQ, The Financial Review, and Wired. But you can also follow his creative journey online via Instagram:

The post It’s Always Summer In Marc Martin’s Illustrations appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Since 2012, Rains has set out to rethink the quality of rainwear. Co-founded by Daniel Brix and Philip Lotko, the two are greatly influenced by their Scandinavian heritage, with their brand practicing an uncompromising approach to simplicity that is as equally rooted in functionality as it is in relevance.

“Our product DNA is classic but innovative and we are always searching for new ways of developing the brand – that’s our constant motivation and inspiration,” Lotko told Flaunt. “The Scandinavian design DNA is in almost everything we do – that’s why keeping designs simple and functional is key for us.”

Based on an initiative to reinterpret the traditional rubber raincoat in a novel way, Rains launched with just one product: a poncho. The season after, they had a full collection of waterproof apparel, bags, and accessories. Each collection provides a mix of revitalized designs from rainwear archives and original rainwear solutions.

Here are some raincoats you’d want to snag for yourself:

The post Update Your Winter Gear with Fashion Brand Rains appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Textile Lucy Poskitt is prepared to teach us what it takes. Based in Victoria, BC, she teaches weaving workshops across Canada, but you can also be inspired from afar by following her Instagram page.

Working with a looser and more experimental hand, Poskitt draws inspiration from local landscapes and lore and works with the belief that with the proper techniques under your belt you can confidently create and explore your own style.

According to Poskitt, workshop materials and supplies are locally sourced or handmade when possible.”Most of my professional work is made with traditional materials–wool, linen, and cotton yarn,” she noted in an interview with KOEL Stories. “When I’m creatively stuck or have time to play around, I really enjoy more unusual, less traditional fibers–horsehair, leather scraps, paper, ropes and trims, wood veneer, mylar… you name it!”

Her techniques include frame-loom weaving—a style of weaving that is fast to set up, easy to use, and portable. According to her website, this technique is most often used to make tapestry-style weavings, ie – decorative art pieces that will hang on the wall as art when completed – but looms can also be used for making small pieces that could be used as jewellery, placemats, coasters, a bit of fabric to use as a panel on a cushion, and more.

The post Delve Into Weaving with Lucy Poskitt appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

She remembers being knocked off her feet by comic books like The Sandman by Neil Gaiman or Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka, and spending hours in the comic section at her local library, obsessively searching for new authors. “I felt attracted intuitively by those covers with dark and reddish colors,” says Hafid.

But it took some time for her to find her own artistic voice within the blossoming comics scene. Having graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, Hafid also has a degree in Arts Applied on the Wall from the School of Arts and Crafts (Llotja de Barcelona).

Now working full time as a freelance illustrator, she combines illustration with her comic projects. “In my illustrations, my characters are part of the representation of very abstract ideas,” says Hafid. “Anyways, when I draw my comics I think there is something about me, especially as the stories are usually based on my own experiences or thoughts. In any case, I think there is some distance between me as a person and my works due to my symbolic and geometric style.”

And though the finished work is strictly digital, her starting point is always analog. “I always draw by hand!” she stresses. “I always begin with freehand sketch. Then, I polish it with rulers and circle templates. Sometimes I use the light board to polish the drawing even more. Finally I scan it the illustration, and clean the drawing with Photoshop very well before adding the color with it.”

Show her some love on Instagram.

The post The Symbolic Comics of Nadia Hafid appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Covered in cross-stitch embroidery they present motives that are typically Swedish. Those include small red cottages in the countryside with blue sky and birches, as well as wild animals, like elk, deer, and birds, often seen in woodlands.

Born in 1957 in Gothenburg, Wikander has been working as an artist since 1986, but has been collecting embroideries years before that. “I started to collect cross stitches […] but I didn’t know what to do with them,” she told HAHAMAG. “I found them beautiful, and I admired the work behind.”

It was only in 2012 that she began to “dress up” vintage objects with her collected embroideries. “I decided to try to cover things from the ’70s, a sewing machine, a typewriter for example, and it went well,” she explains. “It was like you saw the objects for the first time, and you weren’t sure of what you were looking at.” The finished objects are statement pieces, to say the least.

The post Ulla-Stina Wikander Covers Vintage Objects In Embroidery appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

An author, blogger, and designer living in a suburb of Washington, DC, DiPirro launched PositivelyPresent.com in 2009 with the intention of sharing her insights about living a positive and present life (something that didn’t always come easy to her!). 

The posts shared on her website and Instagram page – full of uplifting mantras and colorful illustrations – strive to support the idea that life is best lived if it’s lived right now with a positive attitude. “Be positive. Be present. This is your life,” reads her website. As such, her website includes tips for being more positive, advice for living in the moment, articles on how positivity can improve you (as if we need more proof), and resources and inspiration for being positive and present, among other resources.

There’s even a designated post about staying positive in times of pandemic, which includes some resources for you to download if you’re at home and are looking for some activities to keep you uplifted and inspired. “Though many of us try to, it’s impossible to live happily in the past or in the future,” reflects DiPirro on her website. “And if the now is all we have, why not make this moment a positive experience?”

Here are some other positive reminders:

The post Here’s How to Stay Positive appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Based in Birmingham, Redfern ties her love of nature to her childhood. “When I was growing up we had a caravan in Wales and I loved the wildness of the landscape,” she told Ballpitmag. “I think going there instilled in me a great love for nature and the outdoors.” After completing an art foundation course in college, she worked with mixed media textile and paper collage before moving on to hand embroidery in 2015.

“I love the fact that it takes quite a long time to stitch a piece, so it is quite a meditative process,” she says, “and I find all of the materials really pleasing; the colorful threads, beads, lovely natural colored fabric (natural calico is my fabric of choice) and the wooden hoops.”

Indeed, hand crafting and embroidering are an easy recipe for mindfulness, and Redfern herself provides downloadable embroidery patterns on her Etsy shop, alongside a small selection of embroidered hoop art. “One of the things I find most rewarding about creating embroidery patterns is the thought that they are hopefully bringing enjoyment to people,” she says, “so I would like to keep creating new patterns, as well as working on new original pieces to further explore my favorite subject matter.”

You might just be inspired to take on embroidery yourself!

The post Chloe Redfern Will Inspire You to Embroider appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

According to Holliday, her messages are aimed at other women, encouraging them to tap into what she calls their “God-given gifts.” And with an impressive following on Instagram, women (and men), are clearly tapping in.

“From a young age, I would sketch comic strips and draw people,” recalled Holliday in an interview with Freelance Wisdom, describing her creative upbringing. “I never took it too seriously until after I finished college with a degree in marketing,” she notes. “I decided that I wasn’t really doing what I loved to do, and then after the birth of my first child, I got an insane passion to go for what I always dreamed of.”

Art started taking root again in her heart, and Holliday listened. “I started sketching illustrations and sharing them online,” she says. “At a really wild time, I was pregnant with my second child, I decided to take the leap to freelance and it’s been a thrilling, fulfilling, and adventurous ride,” she adds.

You’d want to join her ride:

The post A Time for Healing: Follow Jena Holliday’s Inspiring Instagram Page appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Miumiu’s Youtube channel is only a week old but it already has around 3,000 subscribers. We predict that it’s going to grow rapidly so start following it before everyone else does!

Miumiu has covered songs like Fly Me to the Moon and Moon River. “Thank you for your encouragement. I will continue to study hard. To fulfill my dream to be an excellent guitarist. Please forgive me for my poor English. This is not my native language. I’ve tried my best to do it well,” she told Laughing Squid.

See her performances below.

The post Six-Year-Old Miumiu Shares Adorable Guitar Covers appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

With a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design, Goren admits that fashion and patterns play a big role in her work. “I like fashion and people’s personal styles,” she relayed in an interview with The Great Discontent. “When I draw patterns, that’s a big part of my work and drawing girls and the clothes they wear makes a lot of sense. I don’t know if it was ever conscious. I draw what I’m interested in.”

Being a fashionable woman herself, she tends to focus on other fashionable women, painting them with striking, eye-popping colors. “People often ask me about my choice to draw women with all different body types and if I’m making feminist art,” she remarked. “It’s like, well, it’s not not feminist, but I’m not choosing to draw all different body types because I’m trying to make a feminist statement. I just have the knowledge inside of me that, yes, all of these body types exist. That’s a fact.”

With almost 90k followers on Instagram, people are indeed taking note. Her work has also attracted commercial clients and sought after collaborations with brands like Anthropologie, Chronicle Books, Kate Spade, Penguin Random House, Revlon, and Vogue.

Follow her creative journey through Instagram:

The post Ths Sun-Drenched Illustrations of Leah Goren appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

An endless explorer, his illustrations are immersed in greenery, providing a summery backdrop to our gloomy winter days. “I have lots of influences,” admitted the Australian artist. “I think my design background gave me an appreciation for people like Ray and Charles Eames, Charley Harper, Bruno Munari and other designers from the ’60s, but these days I’ve branched out a lot with my influences. I really enjoy the paintings of David Hockney, Peter Doig, Fred Williams, and Adrian Genie, as well as folk artists and other illustrators.”

Having authored and illustrated five books (all published by Penguin Random House), Martin’s creations have also been featured in esteemed publications like GQ, The Financial Review, and Wired. But you can also follow his creative journey online via Instagram:

The post It’s Always Summer In Marc Martin’s Illustrations appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Since 2012, Rains has set out to rethink the quality of rainwear. Co-founded by Daniel Brix and Philip Lotko, the two are greatly influenced by their Scandinavian heritage, with their brand practicing an uncompromising approach to simplicity that is as equally rooted in functionality as it is in relevance.

“Our product DNA is classic but innovative and we are always searching for new ways of developing the brand – that’s our constant motivation and inspiration,” Lotko told Flaunt. “The Scandinavian design DNA is in almost everything we do – that’s why keeping designs simple and functional is key for us.”

Based on an initiative to reinterpret the traditional rubber raincoat in a novel way, Rains launched with just one product: a poncho. The season after, they had a full collection of waterproof apparel, bags, and accessories. Each collection provides a mix of revitalized designs from rainwear archives and original rainwear solutions.

Here are some raincoats you’d want to snag for yourself:

The post Update Your Winter Gear with Fashion Brand Rains appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.