Best Instagrams Of the Week For Design Inspiration [27.3.15]

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March 27th, 2015
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9:00 AM

No longer for just selfies and sunsets, Instagram is a valuable resource for design inspiration. Here's a look at Source4Style's top Instagram accounts for this week - offering that extra bit of fabric, fashion and design inspiration.

Oak Stallion @oakstallionThe team at Oak Stallion are building an online marketplace for selling high-quality apparel that is custom designed by print artists who submit their crafts to be put onto clothes. These 'soft goods' are 100% made in the United States of America, using eco friendly printing products such as soy and citrus bases instead of solvents. Oak Stallion gives back a percentage of profit to the artist who submitted the artwork too, and plans to partner with charities, donating some of the profit made. Outside of their incredible design and textile concept, Oak's Instagram promotes nature, fashion and stylish gents - mostly shot by Tanner Wendell. The photos are vehicles for capturing the philosophy of Oak Stallion and what is to come from this textile and print innovator team. When on a break from thinking about fabric, be inspired and explore new territory.The Loft @entertheloftThe Loft is a specialist interiors concept with a penchant for natural materials and, in their words, "a rather unsubtle aversion from non-recycled plastic". Created by The Playing Circle, earthy wood, leather and wool showcase this Dutch interior company's crafty investment in the products they stock in their organic-modern rooms. Featuring woolen rugs from Foreign Objects - a group of Berber carpet makers inspired by the Riff and Atlas mountains of Morocco, the reoccurring concept store - The Loft - is texturally touch-worthy must-visit. As an Instagram, follow images of their 'fake' homes, set up with rooms in which people enter, point at a cushion or lamp or throw, and then purchase it. The clean and modern shots give back an instant customer experience via social media with charm and familiarity; all without having to fly to Amsterdam to step in store - just yet.Other Fabrications @justincywongAt just 17-years-old, Hong Kong student Justin Wong dreams of being a designer; but his Instagram proves he is one. Under his pseudonym Other Fabrications, Wong is precisely in tune with aesthetics, daily "finding new and innovate 'things' within fashion, art and design".  Wong takes photos regularly and was featured as one of six emerging HK artists in support of the Six Lee a the Six Lee X The Hub Pop-Up Fashion Art Exhibition last year. His Instagram is flat-lay heaven, showcasing his workspace from where he writes, draws, sips luxurious lapsang souchong tea and munches French pastries. It's not so much the objects themselves that inspire but the brilliant colors they project; vermillion and blue and classic blacks jutting out on the frame on cyan, magenta and Chinese green. Not to mention the clarity of the textures of the pieces of cloth and food in shot and the way the items are beautifully spaced on the ever-changing color bench. Wong's fashionable Instagram gives back non-atelier perspective to followers from a budding design prodigy. Just wait.The Cob Gallery @thecobgalleryThe Cob Gallery was established in 2011 by gallerist Victoria Williams and playwright Polly Stenham. In 2013, curator Cassie Beadle joined the gallery, too; adding to the strong, young, female-led space, which pushed forward emerging artists and creatives. Showcasing photography, prints and illustrations (and a mix of the two in some cases), the space was founded on the principle of creative collaboration between artist and gallery. Featured artists include Noemie Goudal, Walter Hugo and Zoniel, Adeline de Monseignat, Juergen Teller, and William Burroughs. Cob's Instagram is retro-inspired honing in on mid-century interiors, as well as intricate prints. Worth mentioning as textile prints is the work of Royal College of Art graduate, Becky Allen. Awarded the Augustus Martin prize for printmaking, Allen’s work is superbly detailed and intricate with line drawings in black and white that present another way of seeing. Can't get to London to see the illustrations? Click Follow.