Detroiter and architect Eddy Sykes, though it doesn't say he's a Detroiter in the article, is spotlighted by a
New York Times design blog.
Excerpt:
Eddy Sykes is an architect by training. But he’s also a
jack-of-all-trades, a cross between a mad scientist and a garage
tinkerer. In “Yakuza Lou,” an installation that is on view until the
end of February at Materials+Applications — an outdoor nonprofit space
in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles — Sykes pulls out all
the stops. In exploring a new type of surface manipulation with a firm
footing in real-world materials and construction methods, Sykes began
with something as pedestrian as a mailbox reflector:
when deconstructed, it reveals a complex geometry of truncated pyramids and faceted jewel-like textures.
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