The design industry was deeply saddened after the death of renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer when he passed away in December last year, at the grand old age of 104. As a tribute to Niemeyer and his many years of service to the architecture world, street artist Eduardo Kobra has covered the entire side of a Sao Paulo building with a mural dedicated to the architect. The polychromatic piece stretches a mammoth 52 metres in height, and due to this size Kobra had to enlist help from four other artists to complete the artwork.

Talented French artist & sculptor Vincent Dubourg recently unveiled the Armoire Chinoise at Design Miami in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, a go-to destination gallery renowned for exclusive, limited-edition contemporary art. With such a distinct, deconstructed aluminium form this sculpted cabinet turned heads at the fair, defying all attempts of categorisation as a true fusion of furniture, architecture and sculpture.

Blurring the lines of sculpture and installation, artist Scott Carter uses gallery walls as a medium to create furniture and other items. Initially Carter develops a digital prototype, then maps out the pieces on the boards, before finally laser cutting and assembling each piece. The skeletal walls then form the backdrop to the sculptures in the gallery space.

 Matthew Shlian is an artist, and more specifically a paper engineer who works with sheets of paper to create complex three dimensional sculptures. Using his in depth knowledge of mathematical processes, Shlian is able to create complex patterns, and each precise paper fold is a painstaking step towards the greater sculptural piece. 

'Extraction series' is constructed from a systematic arrangement of pointed pyramids, and while they appear to have been patiently planned to the very last fold, Shlian insists that the process is unpredictable, maintaining that he's never certain of the work's final realisation and often sets out without a clear goal, working within several self imposed limitations, such as only using curved folds or setting each line to a particular length. 

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Mathematics was the platform for these stunning psychedelic visualisations by Jen Shark. Colour emphasises the miniscule dimensions of each piece and draws attention to repetition and pattern, creating pieces that appear like deep pits filled with the brightest of rainbows. Each piece in Shark's collection is named after physical and mathematical phenomena such as 'Centrifugal' and 'Alpha & Omega', and we cannot even begin to imagine the patience needed to create each work.

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Swarovski Crystal Palace commissioned architect Asif Khan to create a large-scale work especially for this year's Design Miami. The result? An optical phenomenon that draws on Khan's interest in ice formations, and their ability to create halos of light. Khan worked within the iconic house shape to construct the work. Walls were made out of a honeycomb structure that contained more than 1.3 million crystals, producing large circles of light that mesmerised visitors to the all-white exhibition hall, making the installation a notable highlight at Design Miami. 

There are unlikely to be many people who are not familiar with the above imagery from Windows 98 Solitaire. The heavily pixelated graphics and bright colours definitely bring about a sense of nostalgia. Designer Evan Roth has played on our obsession with retro graphics and created a limited edition run of a faithfully replicated deck of cards, signed and numbered by the artist. Roth has received many awards as a designer and the MOMA houses some of his work in their permanent collection, so it's no surprise the all of the decks sold out almost immediately.

During Design Miami this year, luxury Italian brand Fendi and Maarten de Ceulaer unveiled their collaboration titled 'Transformations'. Taking cues from Fendi's fondness for patterns, in particular their 'Pequin' pattern, de Ceulaer created leather 'planks', attaching them to tree stumps and flat wood boards. As a deliberate juxtaposition between soft and hard materials, the soft planks can be moved and placed onto any object to create a comfortable space.

If you find yourself in Frankfurt next year, in particular for the Bockenheimer Depot, you may be lucky enough to experience the next in the series of William Forsythe's famed Scattered Crowd balloon installations for yourself. Balloon art definitely isn't a new medium, however Forsythe pushes the boundaries and makes it incredibly hard for himself by assembling the balloons in a very linear and structured arrangement. This, combined with mesmerising background music and the dramatic locations Forsythe chooses creates an ethereal sensory experience.

Known for their colourful wood grain patterns, Sebastian Wrong and Richard Woods recently launched a new product - Bent Wood tables - at Design Miami. Exploring the idea of curved and warped elements using a traditional Indian warping technique, the designers soaked long planks of wood, so that they could then bend them into their desired curve or shape, before stacked the finished products haphazardly on top of each other. The tables are available in four different colour combinations.