Inside the Lines: Wallpaper Magazine Custom Tin

Prismacolor graces the pages of Wallpaper Magazine’s Handmade Issue

Each year Wallpaper Magazine gathers the best in design, interior design, fashion, art, and lifestyle and features them in this collective book of Wallpaper whimsy for the Handmade edition.

For the August 2011 edition,  artist Joanna Grawunder had the unique opportunity to create a custom set of Prismacolor colored pencils in a suitably fabulous custom tin for this year’s edition of Wallpaper Magazine’s Handmade issue.  

The tin is asymmetrically shaped while the pencils inside vary in size based on the frequency of their use– pencils in less frequently used colors are shorter while colors that used more often are longer- GENIUS!

The magazine not only includes images of this one-of-a-kind piece but detailed sketches of Johanna’s design and concept in the “sketchbook” located in the fold of the magazine.

If you’re not familiar with the Handmade issue, it brings together ”an (almost) entirely new cast of leading designers, craftsmen and manufacturers to create remarkable works just for us – and you – the Handmade franchise has evolved into a global showcase for contemporary design and craftsmanship. Here of the fruits of their labour.” 

“There is a sort of creative combustion that happens when you put master craftsmen, expert manufacturers and top-of-their-game designers together in the same place and for the first time. Ideas and intent collide and fuse, and something new and wonderful can take shape. And playing God can be addictive. So the Handmade issue is back. With a bang. Here, we chronicle these unique designs, as well as step through the doors of the Brioni House in Milan, to see them all on show at our exhibition held during this year’s Salone del Mobile. Plus, we watch some of them come to life on video, hear from some of the makers and look at some of the stories behind the products’ conception.”

 

Check out Johanna’s design and Wallpaper Magazine, on shelves now or online.