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A large, pink letter “Y” is painted across a wall. The background is divided into bold blocks of mint green, royal blue and white.

Art: Amy Woodside has some new paintings and a sweatshirt range to boot!

Words
Rob Alderson
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Date
16 May 2014

It’s been a while since we last checked in on Amy Woodside but the New Zealand-born, New York-based graphic artist has been as busy as ever. She’s a creative whose long been fascinated by the visual properties and potential of text and some of her new word-based work explores these qualities in quite an abstract way. She has also just launched a set of printed sweatshirts with the AYR brand, giving some of her pattern work a new lease of life on the sternums of trendy young things the world over. Nice.

An abstract collage of deep blue geometric shapes on a white background. The forms create a jagged, zig-zagging line that cuts across the frame.
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Amy Woodside: Mean

A close-up of a collage featuring fragmented, oversized letters. A bold red “N” sits above a pale yellow “M” against a white background.
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Amy Woodside: Mine

An abstract composition of bold, geometric shapes in deep red, teal, and pale pink. The forms overlap and curve to suggest the fragmented shapes of letters against a white background.
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Amy Woodside: Run

A collage of bold, oversized letters in pale pink, blue and yellow against a white background. The shapes overlap and are cropped by the edges of the frame.
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Amy Woodside: Wet

A red circular ring is layered over a turquoise zig-zag shape. The composition is set against a plain white background.
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Amy Woodside: Wow

An abstract illustration of a large, pink letter “Y” set against a background of teal and blue geometric shapes. The composition uses sharp angles and overlapping colours to create a sense of depth.
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Amy Woodside: Yikes

A person with curly hair stands against a plain white background. They wear a white sweatshirt featuring a yellow circle with a black “Y” shape drawn over it.
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Amy Woodside x AYR

A person with red hair stands against a white background, wearing a white T-shirt and dark denim shorts. The T-shirt features a colourful abstract graphic with the words “GOING PLACES”.
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Amy Woodside x AYR

A person with curly hair stands against a white wall, wearing a white T-shirt and white trousers. The shirt features a yellow graphic with the words “MAYBE TOMORROW” partially obscured.
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Amy Woodside x AYR

A person with red hair stands against a white background, wearing a white T-shirt and white trousers. The T-shirt features a light blue rectangle with the words “TOO BAD” in pink.
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Amy Woodside x AYR

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About the Author

Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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