kyle bean: pencil shaving portraits

hand crafted models are the result of the british designer's conceptual thinking and craftsmanship. he often collaborates with photographers and directors. 

kyle bean created 'disposable technology' as a response to our consumer relationship with technology and obsolescence.

kyle bean has produced a time-line of cellphones from 1985 to 2009, which can nestle inside one each other like russian babushka dolls.

scottish artist jo hamilton creates portraits using a traditional crochet technique.

small segments are cut away from a canvas painted with the image a a sitter's likeness, revealing greater complexity and allowing for the artwork to exist somewhere between a two and three dimensional piece. 

the series of portraits depicts four notorious or influential ruling men of the 20th century re-envisioned with a particular emphasis on their more feminine sides.