Our bitchin’ powder room mural featured in Interiors Mag
When a client calls with a badass pink powder room concept - you deliver.
Sharing her rendering and a simple pink and gray marble sample, we designed a big, bold, not-sorry custom mural for Joanna Parol Interior Design that perfectly captures the marble’s hues and complements the energy of the space. Check it out on page 89 of Interiors Magazine’s June/July edition.
Spanning three walls and the 5th wall, the design you see isn’t something you’ll find on our website, and is completely unique to Joanna’s project. When you come to our team of designers - we’re ready for your abstract concepts, unique visions and experimental projects. We have archives of design options at our fingertips for opportunities just like this.
Fast forward to today and Interiors Mag has featured the pink powder room magic in their current June+July issue. The powder room is complete with all-immersive pink tones, gray accents, and is entirely a vibe. A simple concept turned into a bitchin’ project thanks to a little collaboration and a lot of women power. That’s the shit we love.
“Always look on the pink side of life.” - Joanna Parol
See the Black Crow Studios X Joanna Parol Interior Design collab in Interiors Magazine June+July Issue, page 89.
New Cuffhome Colorways!
We are knee deep in working on the newest Cuffhome Collection that will be filled with some great new murals and a bunch of by the roll options. While that is in development we decided to update all our existing designs with new colorways! You will see, not only, our long time designs Unfinished and Brushstrokes, but our more recent murals all available in these new colors!
Since we can’t show you the new designs just yet - enjoy these new colorways. If you want samples of any of these designs shoot us an email at info@blackcrowstudios.com and we will get them out to you right away!
Introducing LILAC, MIMOSA, MOBY DICK, SEA GLASS, AND QUARTZ
LILAC - Pictured: Tide, Unfinished, Sediment, and Terrazzo
MIMOSA - Pictured: Terrazzo, Rift, and Tide
MOBY DICK - Pictured: Tide, Terrazzo, Unfinished, Brushstrokes
SEAGLASS - Pictured: Rift, Tide, Sediment, and Terrazzo
Dystopian Opulence has launched!
It all begins with an idea.
If you haven’t seen it yet - we launched our latest collection, Dystopian Opulence, a few weeks ago and the reaction has been huge!!
The idea for the collection started from minerals. I had done a mineral based collection, in partnership with someone, years ago. This was me revisiting what I had originally done and looking at it from a new viewpoint and using new materials and techniques. It was interesting to revisit a subject, but see it differently based on the growth I had done as an artist and a person.
The collection, while very vast in scope and style, starts pretty straight forward and then transitions into a darker interpretation. As an artist, I am always influenced by what is happening in the world. This collection is a manifestation of all the despair, frustration, and, sadness of where the world is going along with the beauty and majesty of the Earth and what She can create.
We have created a collection that pulls from nature and twists it with colors and textures of the digital interface we use to view “nature” (our phones). Using real minerals, collage, mixed media, and computer glitches, we explore a future that looks at our relationship with technology as we move towards a more digital life and leave behind our connection to nature.
The collection begins with beautiful minerals - created over millions of years—in interesting combinations and then progresses into a technology-driven view of nature.
I’ve never approached my collections as “what would make good wallpaper” I have always come at it from the stance of what feeling or mood am I trying to express. It all starts with the art - I don’t worry about what the end product will be, I just create and explore. I love the part of the process where we take the best ideas and then translate them to my favorite medium - mural style installations - it always blows me away how the scale can make such a huge impact on the design and the way you experience it.
With this collection I had my entire team working on designs along with me. I set the overall theme and mood for the collection and let them explore what that meant to them. Because we all have our own strengths and weaknesses I was able to pull the strongest ideas from each person and then we shaped those into a cohesive collection.
As part of our Rebel with a Cause initiative we will be donating a portion of sales to environmental causes, we have to start protecting the Earth and dealing with the damage we are doing. I felt like this collection, being based on minerals, was best suited for supporting this issue.
At this time we will be donating to Sea Legacy and Natural Resources Defense Council.
You can read an interview I did with California Home + Design about this collection and the Rebel with a Cause initiative. Read it here!
A Rebel with a Cause
It all begins with an idea.
I’ve often struggled with the impact I make in the world. Making wallpaper doesn’t feel like enough. I work in a luxury industry that can, at times, feel very superficial - especially when I see so many people struggling just to pay their bills. When people are fleeing their homes to come to the US for safety, wallpaper design feels so insignificant in the greater scheme of things.
This has been weighing on me for years, but I didn’t know what to do about it. I asked myself how I could take what I am currently doing and leverage it into something that can do more for the world.
In 2017, I started working with the Caliber Foundation, a charity which funds gun buyback programs across the country, by donating 20% of the sales of my Caliber Wallpaper Collection and Art Prints to help get illegal guns off the street. It was liberating to discover I could make murals and fine art in a way that had a real impact, by contributing to a charity with a mission I truly believe in.
In 2019, I feel the strong urge to do even more. I feel pulled to become a Rebel with a Cause. Rebel with a Cause represents a new way for me to continue making art while also making a difference. By dedicating each of my wallpaper collections to a different charity, and donating up to 50% of my personal income from each sale, I feel that not only can I make a difference to the charities that I support, but also serve as an example to our industry encouraging others to take a stand for causes that matter to them.
Please look for our upcoming announcements describing the marriage among our existing collections, original limited edition prints, and causes that empower women, help the homeless, educate kids, aid immigrants, rescue animals, save the planet and offer hope to the addicted. I hope you will join me on this journey of giving back, making a difference, and creating not just a beautiful world but one that we can also be proud of.