11:04 AM
Design or DYE
June 20, 2011
Trendsetter
Lauryn Hill
Since today's song came from her I thought I'd further the love. "Selah" is my favorite song to date and its for her daughter, too precious! She WAS a trendsetter in the late 90s early 2000s. She was sooooooo beautiful, natural, and afrocentric before it was "cool" to be all of those things. It seems sadly life has gotten the better of her (six kids w/ no hubbie will do that to you) but I will always love and appreciate her & her music!
Bucket List # 8: See Lauryn Hill live
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****~ NEW DISCOVERY ~****
Well new to me anyway :) its a small software addition by adobe called kuler. This and pinterest will be the DEATH of me! I’m obsessed! Kuler is amazing for those who consider themselves color-challenged. You can make your own color combinations or take your inspiration from an image. So it works like this:
- pick a base color- you can play with the color range make it lighter, darker, more/less saturated, change the rgb/cmyk/hsv levels etc.
- then you can select a rule:
- analogous- matches colors with adjacent hues
- monochromatic- focus on one color and its varied intensity and lightness in a single hue
- triad- spaces your colors in a triangle around the color wheel for a contrasting theme
- complementary- opposes 2 colors on the wheel for a simple theme based on 2 hues
- compound- combines multiple colors to produce interesting hues
- shades- creates subtle variations from the base color’s hue
- custom- total freedom, do whatever you want!
- Finally you can import it into Adobe Creative Suite and viola!
It pretty much does all of the work for you and in the process you are able to educate yourself and understand how its combining the colors. Wish I had known about this last year! As a design student with limited resources when putting together presentations you are at the mercy of the materials available in the design library. This could help tremendously when having to put together the lesser of 2 evils of fabric choices and make them look good lol.
The other great thing about this site is you can browse other people’s creations and get inspired! Try it out and see if you don’t get addicted!!
Oh and of course there’s an app for that! Get it for your ipad, iphone, personal widget, etc.
June 16, 2011
Artist of the Week: Theo Altenberg
colour <3
I am a lover of vivid, striking colors. They invigorate me, inspire me, intrigue me! So naturally Theo Altenberg’s paintings give me LIFE!!! The German artist’s abstractions pulse from their canvas. His use of contrasting colors immediately catches your eye but the subtle marblelizations and blending draws you even closer. His work is like the "Rorschach Test" (inkblot test) where your mind tries to make out shapes, figures, forms, etc. His work is so open to interpretation! They are so beautiful I could stare at them for hours......
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| Cool Hunter |
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| Cool Hunter |
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| Theo Altenburg |
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| Cool Hunter |
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| Cool Hunter |
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| Theo Altenburg |
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| Theo Altenburg |
June 15, 2011
Designer of the Week: Sergey Makhno
Bear with me as I am changing my blog!!! Gotta figure out how to change the pictures and layout! lol
For those of you who follow me on twitter you already know how I feel about him. His work is PHENOMENAL!!! He is based out of the Ukraine and heads The Interior Workshop of Sergey Makhno. He is an artist, architect, and interior designer. His projects, mainly based in Ukraine & Russia, are residential & commercial in addition to the lighting and products he designs. He has this very angular, futuristic aesthetic that doesn’t look out of place or unlivable.
Today I am bringing to your attention his design for a woman’s clothing boutique called TAGO in Kiev. His inspiration was nature during autumn & I LOVE how he added an almost industrial twist to it. You see nature in the color choices (terracotta, coffee, golds, wood grain) and the organic forms of the furniture and decoration resemble stones, grass, water drops. Because the shop is in the center of a busy city he created this calm, tranquil oasis for women to shop. Check the flics below...
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| Interiorzine |
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| Interiorzine |
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| Interiorzine |
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| Interiorzine |
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| Interiorzine |
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| Floor Plan +mood |
June 13, 2011
Mizukagami: The NEW "It" Mirror
Japan KSA (take some time...it will come to you!) when it comes to out-of-this-world, limit-pushing, next-level designs! The Mizukagami Water Mirrors were designed by ad agency expert Rikako Nagashim and acrylic designer Hideto Hyoudou. Their pieces vary in their degree of melting from subtle dripping and puddling to completely warped shapes and ripple effects. They are dramatic statement pieces but make for a very conceptual, surrealist design. Using a combination of pieces one could even make their own melting oasis :) The mirrors, as photographed, have this very graphic and dark tone to them... I’d love to see someone use them in the opposite way (challenge!)
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| Mitsubai |
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| My Beautiful Life |
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| Chic Tip |
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| Chic Tip |
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| My Beautiful Life |
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| Mitsubai |
