Flaminia Saccucci graduated from Central Saint Martins with a degree in print design in 2011. Her graduate collection received a lot of acclaim and hype: she sold the collection through the Browns Focus initiative, Solange wore her dress to the MET, and she was awarded the L’Oreal Professional Young Talent Award for ‘best student collection’. Made from latex, leather and tulle, the collection focused on pretty floral prints, contrasted with a rubber tyre print. Since then she has been a little quiet in the press, but only because her talents were swiftly snapped up by none other than Riccardo Tisci. Not long after her graduation Flaminia moved to Paris, to work for Givenchy. If this is her graduate collection, we’re looking forward to seeing her work after she’s been given a workout on the Givenchy design team!

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Italian product designer Chiara Andreatti has create this sweet range of tableware stamped with the cross section of fruits and vegetables. Creating carved wood moulds the porcelain is printed with the patterns and textures of fruit flesh in cornflower blue paint, appearing almost as fossils again the clean white china.

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1Granary is the new multi platform publication from London’s prestigious art and design college, Central Saint Martins. (The name is a reference to the college’s London address.) The website and magazine is created by Central Saint Martins students from all disciplines, including graphic design, illustration and fashion. It’s like a student paper, only better. This photoshoot is a selection of some of 1st year pieces, through to BA and MA collections. The future looks bright!

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French collage artist Rosemarie Auberson focuses on texture and colour to create her simple, yet beautiful images that evoke a sense of quiet calm. She has worked for Hermés and for Spring/Summer 2012 her work was made into placement prints for New York label Rachel Comey.

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Pedro Friedeberg is a surrealist artist from Mexico. He also claims to have invented several styles of architecture, as well as one new religion and two salads. He creates bright, patterned and absurd images and objects that delight the imagination. A surrealist in paint and practice, filling his days making art and other said activities: “I get up at the crack of noon and, after watering my pirañas, I breakfast off things Corinthian. Later in the day I partake in an Ionic lunch followed by a Doric nap. On Tuesdays I sketch a volute or two, and perhaps a pediment, if the mood overtakes me. Wednesday I have set aside for anti-meditation. On Thursdays I usually relax whereas on Friday I write autobiographies.”

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Sol is the fourth collection of silk scarves from Think Positive textile designer Emilie Cacace until the name of Andéol – her accessories label and textile project. Each collection Emilie travels somewhere new to explore the cultural heritage of that place, with a particular focus on its textile traditions. All her research and studies, she pours into her next collection. She has been to Guatemala, the Australian bushlands of Blackheath and Indian desert of Rajasthan, with new adventures on the horizon, including Japan and Morocco.

For this collection she took her designs inspired by her trip in the Australian bush to Mexico. Starting in Mexico City, visiting the home of Frida Kahlo, to the craft state of Oaxaca, to the golden sandy shores of Mazunte and the jungles of the Chiapas. Below are some of the photos from her journey. Her lookbook was shot with trinkets and collectables from all over Mexico.

*Andéol is digitally printed by Think Positive Designer Prints

Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City

Ritual blessing, Zócalo main square, Mexico City

Frida Kahlo portrait at the National Gallery

Diego Rivera mural at the National Gallery

Oaxaca City

Mexican masks, Oaxaca City craft markets

Woven bags, Oaxaca City craft markets

Spices, Oaxaca City craft markets

Woven bags, Oaxaca City

lotions & potions, Oaxaca City craft markets

gorgeous tile patterns, Oaxaca City

Jelly stand

Oaxaca City at dusk

Church, Oaxaca City

Handmade woven bags and vessels, Oaxaca City craft market

Frida Kahlo’s garden

Mazunte beach

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Karen Knorr is truly a citizen of the world having been born in Frankfurt, raised in Puerto Rico, and educated in Paris and London. She is now a Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey. Since the 1980s much of her art has focused on ideas of cultural heritage, with a particular focus on the northern state of India, Rajasthan. In this series of photos, titled India Song, Karen uses a large format Sinar P3 analogue camera, then scanned to very high resolution. She then photographs the animals in their environments and inserts their image into her interiors photos, creating striking visual images that play on ideas of regalia and myth.

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Kit Neale is the print centric menswear label from London. His prints have a graphic, boy-ish quality that is almost childlike, this season lobsters, airplanes, stripes, under the sea in bright pop colours were the focus, inspired by the British seaside. Developing the print range takes a lot of research including trips to museums, markets and art galleries. The airplane print is actually based off old toy plans found at a flea market in South London.

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Balata Dorote, 62 years old Natawa, Fiji Islands. Fish caught by her sons.

The night before photographer Gabriele Galimberti set out out on a trip around the world, his Tuscan grandmother made him her special ravioli. The meal inspired his project “Delicatessen With Love”, a document of the grandmothers of the world and the special dishes they cook for their families.

Susann Soresen, 81 years old – Homer, Alaska. She cooked moose.

Lebgaa Fanana, 42 years old – Timimoun, Algeria. Couscous

Boonlom Thongpor, 69 years old – Bangkok, Thailand

Jenya Shalikashuili, 58 years old – Alaverdi, Armenia. A roll of minced beef, rice and vegetables wrapped into grape leaves.

Fatma Bahkach, 59 years old – Aghrimz, Morocco

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A baroque fantasy land of leopard rugs, oriental textiles, mirrored walls, trompe l’oeil art, marble bath tubs, art deco light fixtures, Agyness Deyn’s Williamsburg loft has a lot going on – to say the least! It’s a little kitsch, a little grandma takes a trip, and we love it. The former model sold the apartment in 2011 and we dread to think what became of it. The real estate pictures have been circulating for the last year to harsh criticism – one interiors blog saying: “makes me want to laugh, cry, and puke all at the same time – apparently on the market for $2.5, I think I’ll pass.”. Admittedly her style is not for everyone, but this trove of treasures and curiosities is anything but boring.

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