Socks

There are a couple of beliefs we hold over here at Odd Pears.

1. People are strange.

2. People do odd things in Odd Pears.

Something about the excitement of our bright colours, bold patterns and, of course, the wild-card third sock is enough to get anyone a little kooky. Don’t believe us? Read on, because Wade Jeffree got on the case and created a delightfully weird collection of images to vouch for us on this one.

Wade is an Australian Designer and Art Director based in...

Forrest Aguar and Michelle Norris are Tropico Photo, a creative dream team out of Atlanta making some seriously head-turning work. The couple share a super strong eye for bold, graphic forms and colour, making for a blockbuster level of brightness and positivity whenever they join forces.

After meeting in photography class back at the University of Georgia, it took a few years of working independently before they decided to join forces, combining Forrest’s unique problem solving skills with Michelle’s knack for sourcing special props and items. Together, they...

Giuseppe Palmisano is a creative from Italy who has been turning heads with his mysterious and aesthetically pleasing still lifes. Based in Bologna and with a background in acting and theatre, Giuseppe has created his own world in which women, often faceless and anonymous, live a life like mannequins. Using bodies like forms in his own vignetted scenes, he uses muted colour palettes and anonymity to convey vague and relatable human ideas and emotions.

The models are found wedged between mattresses, slumped together on couches, bent and entwined with each others bodies in bland sets....

Sometimes we stumble across a student’s work that makes us second guess everything we ever spent our time doing while we were at university. Marc David Spengler is one of these people. A current student at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart, Marc’s giving us total design envy with his developed style, machine-like output and impressive, overflowing sketchbooks.

Spending his childhood years obsessed with drawing motorcycles and cars, Marc’s been a compulsive drawer his whole life. When he hit his teens, he picked up a spray can and spent a few years playing...

We’re all for odd, we’re all for weird. So when it comes to off-kilter homewares, we’re first in line to suss it out. Enter OLGA-goosecandle-, the candle brand from Japan making some of the most wack-a-doo objects out of wax we’ve ever seen. At a first glance, these guys kind of look like something your grandmother might have at her house tucked away in her China cabinet, melting and disintegrating slowly since the 70’s. Described as ‘conceptual ceremonial utensil made by goose women’, the family of wacky characters look like they’re either going to come alive in the...