Nadine Nakanishi is a painter and printmaker and one half of the silk-screening poster design studio Sonnenzimmer she runs together with Nick Butcher. I had never heard about these people before, but the video interview below immediately peeked my interest. It showed a woman with a unique combination of punk-attitude and pragmatism on one hand, and a tendency towards abstraction in her work on the other.
Her painting informs her design work and her printmaking liberates the process of creating images. Somewhere in an interview, she says:
In design, they teach you in “form and function”. I have come to realize that good form holds function regardless of function. If something is beautiful the form works.
Take a look at the video and, if you want to have some further reading, check out the links to some more interviews below.
Nadine Nakanishi : Profile from middle mind project on Vimeo.
If you want, you can read some more interviews with Nadine Nakanishi I found lingering around the net. Just click the pearls of the pearltree I made.
You can also find more of her work at Yoneko.net or the sonnenzimmer-site
(Found via The Middle Mind Project)
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