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64 SUMMER 2024 01 Francesca Müller Artificial intellligence has enabled the German-Italian designer to create patterns and futurescapes for a new collection For many designers, including Francesca Müller, AI is a tool that can benefit their practice. At Masterly during Milan Design Week, the Amsterdam-based creative presented her Artisan Intelligence collection, consisting of five design pieces that combine artisan techniques with state-of-theart technology. Müller curated the AI graphics looking at geometric and biophilic patterns and meta-architecture, before adapating them to meet the requirements of each of the products: a Gobelin tapestry, Metapolis, created with MONDiLAB; two heavily embroidered curtain designs, Urbana and Biophilia; the Metaluna pouf; and a hand-tufted rug called Arco. For Müller, AI brings only positives to her creative output— she refers to it as ‘an unlimited imagination tool’. www.francesca-mueller.com 02 01, 02 Artisan Intelligence Showcase, Francesca Müller, 2024
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01 02 01–03 Embroidery textile works by Jeanne Izard I S SUE 65 Jeanne Izard Fun and highly engaging, the textile work of London-based Jeanne Izard creates a world of crazy, fantastical embroidered beasts 03 When I first interviewed Jeanne Izard in COVER 60, as a textile degree graduate of 2020, I asked her thoughts about the future of textile design. To this she replied: ‘I feel textiles need to stop being pretty and self-centred. We need to push the medium further, get it out of the functional-decorative dynamic for good. I want it to be visible and loud, asking questions, and entering a conversation with di erent branches in life.’ Four years later, Izard is further developing these ideas in her fun and fabulous work. In February this year, I viewed a selection of her embroidered textiles in a group exhibition titled ‘4 ways of doing’ at the London Metropolitan University. Created with colourful embroidered yarns and beads on small fragments of material, these striking textile pieces somehow defy categorisation. They are both unassuming and eye-catching, enjoyable yet clever and fearsome. And they are certainly visible and loud. Somehow I imagine these interesting beasts as quirky and lovable rug designs. LU www.jeanneizard.com

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Francesca Müller Artificial intellligence has enabled the German-Italian designer to create patterns and futurescapes for a new collection

For many designers, including Francesca Müller, AI is a tool that can benefit their practice. At Masterly during Milan Design Week, the Amsterdam-based creative presented her Artisan Intelligence collection, consisting of five design pieces that combine artisan techniques with state-of-theart technology. Müller curated the AI graphics looking at geometric and biophilic patterns and meta-architecture, before adapating them to meet the requirements of each of the products: a Gobelin tapestry, Metapolis, created with MONDiLAB; two heavily embroidered curtain designs, Urbana and Biophilia; the Metaluna pouf; and a hand-tufted rug called Arco. For Müller, AI brings only positives to her creative output— she refers to it as ‘an unlimited imagination tool’. www.francesca-mueller.com

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