American artist Rob Pruitt debuted a series of bold patterned quilts for moving furniture called Migration Moving Blankets, which reference the multifaceted topic of migration.
Designed for online retailer Yoox, and debuted at Nomad design fair 2019, the Migration Moving Blanket project saw Brooklyn-based Pruitt create 40 unique, limited-edition quilts.
They are intended to be wrapped around furniture to protect it during a move or when travelling.

Each blanket features a repeated pattern of pixelated birds in flight, bordered by the words "moving to Canada", the artist's name and the year the piece was made, printed in a digitised font.
Each piece is also accompanied by a certificate of authenticity that has been numbered and signed by the artist.
Pruitt uses the quilts as a way of commenting on the topic of migration, from a literal point of view in terms of moving furniture from one place to another, but also from an anthropological standpoint.
"In the natural world, species of all types migrate seasonally to find safety and comfort, whilst similarly, humans migrate to escape from tyranny and autocracy, or more simply relocate with the hope of finding a better life," explained Pruitt.

He collected old moving blankets, which are typically sewn together from scraps of industrial textiles, and overlaid these factory-made blankets with pixelated silk-screen prints of migratory geese that he developed in photoshop.
While these designs reference digital...