Inside Ayse Birsel’s and Yves Béhar’s Sketchbooks
Designers Ayse Birsel and Bibi Seck of birsel+seck in New York think and communicate in sketches. “Our language is drawing,” says Ayse. “Sometimes we stay ‘en quarantaine’ in the room and we do some drawing together to exchange our ideas.”
Galerinternet.com, a virtual gallery based in Turkey (Ayse’s birthplace), is now featuring Ayse and some of her sketches in a really engaging and fun video.
Internet galleries like this are great because they make art accessible to everyone. Of course, there’s nothing like seeing the real thing, but these galleries help expand and globalize our awareness and give artists places to show and sell.
See more Ayse sketches in A Week in Your Life, a series of videos commissioned by I.D. magazine and Moleskine, the notebook/sketchbook maker. In the videos, the books are shot from overhead while someone simply pages through them. Very cool.
Also featured is a book of sketches by Yves Béhar, who designed Herman Miller’s Twist LED task light, the Leaf personal light, and the Ardea personal light.
Ayse designed Herman Miller’s Resolve system, and she co-designed Teneo storage furniture with Bibi.
Re: Ayse story – new on blog
Bill: I loved this! Really fun. I’ll write more to you offline, but in the meantime, I would encourage anyone who’s working hard at a computer screen to please take a 3-minute “art” break and check out this video or one of the links…it’s like a cool, refreshing drink of water for the brain.