"the fiber artist, also known as Lace in the Moon, has produced more than 30 of these objects by hand, all of which are made from yarn. With a small hook and yarn, she builds each object stitch by stitch, and every piece is made of thousands of small loops. These patterns look like pixels on a screen, and in this way, soft yarn becomes a physical copy of these digital images."
"Before she starts crocheting, Nicole Nikolich studies the object carefully. She looks at old photos and real devices and makes drawings and plans the colors. Then she turns the image into a crochet pattern, and a very detailed one. Each square of color must match the original screen or keyboard, so she maps every color and counts every stitch. Only after this work does she begin with yarn."
Nicole Nikolich hand-crochets more than thirty oversized replicas of flip phones, Game Boy consoles, and computer icons from the 2000s using yarn and a small hook. Each piece is constructed stitch by stitch, with thousands of loops forming pixel-like color blocks that copy original screens and keyboards. She researches devices through photos and real examples, plans colors and draws detailed crochet patterns, mapping every color and counting each stitch before beginning. The works enlarge and soften formerly hard plastic electronics, shifting materiality and evoking early internet culture. The exhibition runs at Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia from March 6–29, 2026.
Read at designboom | architecture & design magazine
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