Michael Sean Stolworthy’s artworks are available for your projects!
Michael Sean Stolworthy is an internationally renowned American designer. With its MSMD | Studio merges art and product design.
Precious metals, exotic stones, glass, wood and resin become fluid and sinuous shapes translating the language of nature with a balanced, unique and distinctive style.
Among his clients there are also major brands such as Marvel Studios, Ferrari, LVMH Moët Hennessy, Microsoft, Samsung, Kodak, Royal Caribbean, Las Vegas resorts, and many others.
We have the capability to get Michael’s bespoke artworks, exclusively designed and produced for you and perfectly in line with the project that we’re curating.
Visit our Shop to see the available works created by MSMD | Studio or tell us about your project for an exclusive artwork to be made.
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Humans since 1982 was founded in 2009 by Bastian Bischoff and Per Emanuelsson while the pair were studying together on a postgraduate course at HDK Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Later they relocated to Stockholm where the studio is now based.
Per Emanuelsson and Bastian Bischoff photographed by Tim Meier.
We had the opportunity to interview Per Emanuelsson and Bastian Bischoff, founders of Humans since 1982.
Can you tell us about The ClockClock Project by Humans since 1982?
The ClockClock was the first Humans since 1982 artwork that used and subverted clocks.
“We had been experimenting with an animated typography, developing a font that was based on a grid of clocks. We would manipulate the clock hands to make letters and numbers written out over several clock faces, but once the clock hands started rotating again then the numbers would fall apart and disappear. This led to the core concept of our clock-based works: the hands across multiple analogue clock faces are programmed to move in unison, creating an abstract ‘choreography’ then align once each minute to accurately display the time, written out by clock hands in a digital typography.”
How do A million Times work?
“A million Times is our ongoing series of wall-mounted, kinetic sculptures that are also a functioning wall clock. We took the original concept of The ClockClock and developed it in ambition, complexity and scale to make bigger artworks with more clock faces, and more varied choreographies which we launched in 2013. While The ClockClock had only one choreography, A million Times now has 20 unique choreographies on each artwork.”
And ClockClock 24?
ClockClock 24 was originally developed in collaboration with MoMA Design Store in New York. It was launched in 2015 and has been one of the studio’s signature pieces ever since.
“As with the larger works it tells the times once a minute, and is also hand assembled in our Stockholm studio. After a couple of years we added 22 karat gold plated hands as an option for ClockClock 24 so we continue to experiment with materials and different finishes, and we are also curious to explore some collaborations with other artists and designers too.”
What distinguishes the new ClockClock 9 from its predecessors?
“ClockClock 9 is distinct in that it is the first piece to tell time using analogue clock hands. The nine clock faces show a new selection of choreographies specifically designed for its smaller, circular format and then once each minute, or at intervals defined by the user via the app, the time is shown using the central clock face.”
Only the first 100 pieces are available and selling out quickly!
Credits: Photographs courtesy of Humans since 1982. Photo of Per Emanuelsson and Bastian Bischoff by Tim Meier.
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Michael Sean Stolworthy’s unique style is characterized by sinuous shapes inspired by nature in a continuous exploration of forms.
Who is Michael Sean Stolworthy
Michael Sean Stolworthy.
Michael is an internationally acclaimed designer.
After earning a degree in Media Arts and 3-D Animation, Michael decides to move away from the world of corporate design and to fully explore the fusion of art and product design.
In 2010 he founded MSMD | Studio, his design studio based in Las Vegas, NV USA, where today he designs and creates visual effects, theatrical events, staging, furniture and objects, combining traditional production methods with computer-aided production.
Its clients also include major brands such as Marvel Studios, Ferrari, Microsoft, Samsung, Royal Caribbean and many more.
We had the pleasure of meeting Michael in 2021, for a great project that we took care of in Australia and we immediately appreciated his personality, professionalism and his unique style.
For these reasons we decided to ask him some questions and post his answers on our blog.
Nature as inspiration.
“I’m fascinated by the sinuous anatomy found in nature and the ocean. Fluid organic forms in the beauty of the raw world around us.”
Michael Sean Stolworthy
In his works it’s very important the relation between art and design.
He affirmed: “I aim to translate the sinuous language of nature into curvaceous fluid forms infused with a subtle balance of modern and contemporary flare. Harnessing technology with a digital workflow, I capitalize on the power and vast possibilities of design software, 3D printing, and automated machining. These tools give me the freedom to push at the boundaries between art & design and ultimately bring my organic design visions into the real world”.
The dream project.
Michael says his dream project is the Serous chairs: “My “Serous” chairs were featured in the Oscar winning Marvel Studios film Black Panther! I was contacted by the studio while they were still filming and was commissioned to make 15 exclusive pieces for the Vibranium Technology Lab scenes. It was surreal to see my work on the big screen. The film won the Oscar for Best Production Design & Set Decoration as well! To add to that, I was invited again to design for the sequel Black Panther II film releasing later this year. You will see some very cool organic works with my signature on them.”
Inflection table and Plexus drink table.
Among his best designs there are the Inflection table and the Plexus drink table. We asked him how they were conceived.
“Like many of my works I start out by studying and manipulating platonic solids and geometric primitive geometries and let my imagination do the rest. These pieces were conceived in such a way of bringing function and beauty to a mathematical form in the computer and having it transcend into a real world piece.”
Inflection Table
Derived as an exploratory computational design. Inflection points in differential geometry are the points of the curve where the curvature changes. Hammer forged in bronze and hand polished.
Plexus Drink Table
Geometrically morphed from a dodecahedron platonic solid into a chic network of subdued pentagonal & hexagonal voids. The Plexus table has a beautifully polished bronze exterior with a contrasting dark patina interior making it a curious piece for conversation.”
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