Making a Silk Screen by Nina Levett
Austrian designer Nina Levett mixes imagery from punk and pop culture into her designs for textiles, wallpaper and ceramics.
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Her work includes wallpaper that tells the story of a prostitute who has married a client and had a child but finds herself losing her identity, leather seating that's been hand printed and embossed with images of sperm and cutlery engraved with images taken from the internet.
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"Hand-drawings, depending on the project, are often the last part of my work process," says Levett.
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"I feel that they are the most important and direct way to find out what’s on a mind, and I find this process to be very intuitive. It’s like the ideas flow out of my pen or brush and I just have to help it happen."
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We've published a series of movies Levett made about her work on Dezeen Screen, in which she engraves metal cutlery, colour-corrects wallpaper and makes a silk screen.
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Nina Levett's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Alessi museum in Milan.
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See our special feature on wallpaper here and all our stories about textiles here.
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Above: engraving metal.
Above: colour correcting wallpaper.