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Take a look at these impressive creations by artist Kate Banazi. Named Interactions, they are a selection of new coloured acrylic and cast Jesmonite Silver Grey Granite, exploring the link and overlap of colour, shape and light.     Kate's work is experimental, intuitive and often playful, with bold colour and linear elements a key reference. Repetition and ritual, science and colour theory hold great interest and are often referenced in her work with elements exploring heritage and familial ties. Her current work celebrates relationships, the body in space, movement, shadows and colour, interlocking shapes held together lightly but ready to fall...

The Low Tide Collection by Wang & Söderström consist of three vessels made from Jesmonite;Favia Vessel, Sebae Vessel & Lobo Vessel. This was part of their exhibition Tides, first presented during Milan Design Week 2019. The collection represents the kind of things that appear when the ocean is pulled away during a low tide. Lifeforms that are shaped to survive in underwater conditions but also sometimes inhabit this otherworldly and temporary landscape that is a low tide. As objects, the collection has a similar relation to ‘the surface’. Whereas the sea lifeforms crosses the surface between ocean and land these objects transverse...

Jesmonite Terrazzo Designs by Katie Gillies Katie Gillies is a surface and product designer from Nottingham, England. She set up her studio from her parents garage back in 2015 and began doing both personal design projects and commissioned work for clients. Later in 2016, she moved into a studio in Nottingham’s city centre, where she still is today. Katie specialises in using Jesmonite to create her colourful terrazzo surfaces & products. Every piece is carefully cast by hand and is completely unique in it’s colour and design. Her terrazzo works can be used for interior projects and products, ranging from...

Austria-based Klara Schuster, who formed her label frauklarer in 2014, recently switched to the composite material Jesmonite for her latest work of household accessories, having previously favored marble. Two new modern collections, all made from terrazzo-like Jesmonite, include a series of vases and vessels, as well as modular jewellery trays. The Freckles in Stone Collection is a series of bowls, vases, and vessels in various colorways with fresh shapes and modern silhouettes. The angular pieces boast “freckles” of colorful fragments that really elevate each object. Along with smooth edges, the pieces have a jagged side that will increase your desire to reach out and...

April featured the unveiling of IQOS World Revealed by Alex Chinneck in collaboration with Philip Morris International at Milan Design Week 2019, bringing together the tobacco brand’s new creative vision with a monumental work of public sculpture. The new IQOS product is the latest versions of the flagship smoke-free device from PMI, and features as part of their campaign to transform and overhaul their brand and image as tobacco industry giants. Well-known British sculptor Alex Chinneck and his team have completely transformed the building’s facade in just 4 weeks, using the illusion of a zip to evoke possible routes to a newly imagined...