Patcraft Explores Process, Texture, and Creativity Underfoot
Take a look at the innovation and interesting techniques the Patcraft team used in their latest collections.
The following post is brought to you by Patcraft. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design.
When you enter a space?office, home, museum, school, wherever?you may not immediately take note of the flooring. But Patcraft is always thinking about it: from experimenting with oxidation of metals, exploring the juxtaposition of matte and gloss, and reinterpreting the texture and grains of wood, there?s no shortage of innovation and creativity underfoot, so you might be missing something if you don?t look down. They?ve released not one, but five new commercial flooring collections at this year?s NeoCon. We were drawn in by the unique process that they used to create their new Artefact collection, and then became enthralled with the innovation and interesting techniques the Patcraft team used in both their design and printing processes for all five collections.
Stairwell image, courtesy of the Patcraft team
It all started with a stairwell. Day in and day out, the Patcraft team walks through a door and enters a stairwell at their office, not noticing the worn, rusted patterns on the walls, until one day, somebody did notice.
Inspired by those rust patterns, the team decided to experiment with the way liquids, rust and metal interacted on fabrics. They went to salvage yards, gathered old metals and fab...
The following post is brought to you by Patcraft. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design.
When you enter a space?office, home, museum, school, wherever?you may not immediately take note of the flooring. But Patcraft is always thinking about it: from experimenting with oxidation of metals, exploring the juxtaposition of matte and gloss, and reinterpreting the texture and grains of wood, there?s no shortage of innovation and creativity underfoot, so you might be missing something if you don?t look down. They?ve released not one, but five new commercial flooring collections at this year?s NeoCon. We were drawn in by the unique process that they used to create their new Artefact collection, and then became enthralled with the innovation and interesting techniques the Patcraft team used in both their design and printing processes for all five collections.
Stairwell image, courtesy of the Patcraft team
It all started with a stairwell. Day in and day out, the Patcraft team walks through a door and enters a stairwell at their office, not noticing the worn, rusted patterns on the walls, until one day, somebody did notice.
Inspired by those rust patterns, the team decided to experiment with the way liquids, rust and metal interacted on fabrics. They went to salvage yards, gathered old metals and fab...
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