Handarbeiten by S. Baltruschat | Yellowtrace.

Handarbeiten by S. Baltruschat | Yellowtrace.

Handarbeiten by S. Baltruschat | Yellowtrace.

Handarbeiten by S. Baltruschat | Yellowtrace.

 

Silke Baltruschat is a Hamburg-based graphic designer and illustrator with a real knack for transforming ordinary things into something entirely different. I recently came across her Handarbeiten series – which according to Google Translate means” handicrafts”, so I’m going to roll with it.

Baltruschat has transformed vintage posters from the 70’s Schulmädchen-report (German sex-education film, ah those Germans…) and embroidered them with black cotton thread to resemble body hairs. Awkward and wrong, but seriously funny. Or is that just me?

 

Handarbeiten by Silke Baltruschat | Yellowtrace.


[Images © Silke Baltruschat.]

 



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