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Mushaboom Design creates expressive textiles and wallcoverings to enliven any interior.
Mushaboom Design creates expressive textiles and wallcoverings to enliven any interior.
The goal of Mushaboom Design™ is to help create interesting and beautiful spaces through the design of innovative fabrics and wallcoverings.
We are the antithesis of beigification and believe your space should be as interesting as you are.
Each collection starts with a story that provokes the artmaking process. Starting with experimentation in the studio we create a unified narrative through pattern and colour that brings the story to life.
‘Inspiration from urban sophistication to natural beauty is found in my travels, and brought together though sketching, photography, painting and collage which all comes together in digital painting – freely combining any or all of these elements. I hope people experience my sense of adventure in the work.’ – Barry Roode
Sustainability is a inherent part of Mushaboom Design™. Creating durable products, choosing renewable recycled and recyclable materials, and better processes. Digital printing allows reduced sampling, inventory, and water consumption.
Bespoke service for exclusive designs and materials can meet the needs of any project.
Sustainability is a inherent part of Mushaboom Design™. Creating durable products, choosing renewable, natural, recycled and recyclable materials. Digital printing is one of the fastest growing sustainable developments in textile production with drastic reductions in factory size, power use, overproduction waste, chemical and water use as well as introducing on-demand capability.
– 94% reduction in the use of colourants from the simple elimination of waste by replacing processes that require quantities of chemicals and colourants that don’t end up on the fabric.
– The printing facility can be about 90% smaller than required for tradiional print.
– 40% reduction in green house gas production through energy efficiency.
– Reduced overproduction by made-to-order eliminates 30% of production waste.
– Water reduction savings up to 600%
– Wool is durable, natural, renewable, biodegradable and recyclable.
For each collection I develop a unique sketching process. My overall style is always present but changing techniques allows me to keep the look evolving and fresh. After an series of free sketching it becomes clear to me what methods will most successfully communicate the story I am sharing in the work.
The Garden of Good and Evil collection was developed while living in Savannah, Georgia, USA. The keystone design of the collection, Arbor Vitae, is a hybrid of the fountain in Forsyth Park and a majestic tree nearby. Hand drawing and painting seemed to best create the feeling of the collection.
For Multilocal, I used mostly collage referring to various cities that I travel to on a regular basis. The layering process of collage incorporated the idea of the mixing memories of various places as well as the urban environment.
In Shadow Play I photographed the shadows of plants at night and brought flowers and leaves into the studio to photograph the shadows cast by three colours of light.
Barry Roode, Creative Director, and Owner is an artist and designer based in Mushaboom, Nova Scotia, Canada and Mantova, Italy. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the Statens Høgskole i Kunsthåndverk og Design (‘State School of Art and Design”), in Bergen, Norway.
His work has been exhibited at many venues nationally and internationally including:
Heimtextil, Frankfurt
Tortona Design Week, Fuori Salone, Milan
Futura Projects, Fuori Salone, Milan
Maison et Objet, Paris
ID, Toronto
Decosit, Brussels
Neocon, Chicago
During the course of his career Barry has worked on projects for such prestigious design houses as Design-Tex, Maharam, Arc-Com, and Pollack. Created exclusive products for OEM’s such as Teknion, Global, Kimball, Steelcase, and Herman Miller. Designed custom collections for corporations such as Bell South, Guinness, UCLA Medical Centre, and Capital One in partnership with major firms such as SOM, Perkins and Will, and Gensler.
I am a bit of an adventurer…leaving my home of Nova Scotia for Montreal with a caravan of fellow art students after college and have just kept going! I’ve lived in eight countries on three continents, speak five languages, am a lover a dogs, hiking, and a dancer. Don’t let me sing where you can hear me.
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