Monday, March 28, 2011

StudioVisit(19): Nadine Nakanishi

 

6_Nick and Nadine Arrows MP

 

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.

 

deadc1

sonnenzimmer-okgreat8

dumbofeather

sonnenzimmerpostersale

mandate

magazine-cover

taqwacore

sonnenzimmer_tokyopoliceclub-1271197016

 

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.

 

Nadine Nakanishi

 

draftingyellow

munsellbox

paperfields

greenbarssuprematism

stacked-boxes-teapot

thespinesofrothko1

untitled_yet-500x500

vorab.seil

 

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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