here a new wonderful example how to combine information and build a good infographic image! Interesting to look at it closer and see the couleur differences in the world!!!
Couleurs in Culture
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Monthly Archives: August 2010
fluid ink line
Click to see the video here
Fase call themselves a “music collective, a magazine, or a design studio,” which doesn’t entirely make sense to us, but this confusing blend of descriptives becomes utterly clear when the Argentines apply their love of music with motion graphics. Their music clip for “Me and Miss Rand” by Brendan Crosskerry is an exercise in fluidity as ink-like blots blossom and dissolve through space in sync to the melody, like watching a live watercolor painting.
more turkish music
beautiful men and women performing together in Istanbul!
sounds of istanbul
This is a movie about the music that is currently being played in Istanbul. Istanbul was the center of the two Old World superpowers, the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Today, it is a megalopolis of almost 10 million. So it is to no ones surprise that a lot of music is being played in Istanbul, with a great variety of voices, styles, and influences from everywhere on the globe. It is Turkish music, of course, and I was fascinated by Turkish music ever since I bought my first record long time ago. The movie features different singers, instrumentalists and bands. Spoken comments from the musicians nicely illustrate the music being played, and the social context in modern Turkey. For my perspective, the most interesting comments were from Orhan Gencebay. Furthermore, the movies shows urban scenery mainly from Istanbul which is very pleasant to watch. The movie is done by Fatih Akin.
It’s quite amazing that you can watch the whole movie on google! Have fun exploring the video and the music that is coming from this city!
the other way to make patterns
Having graduated from the RCA, Julian Roberts developed his own unique method of pattern cutting, ‘Subtraction Cutting’. His is a hands on hands-on, fluid approach which doesn’t use drawings but instead relies on a fast-paced physical manipulation of fabric.
“I sometimes cut from the inside of the garment outwards,” he explains “from back to front, or upside down, or my patterns sometimes represent the hollow space within the garment that the body occupies, rather than the positive space that IS the garment.”
His career has been a mega monumental array of creative projects, collections, and academia and his work today includes lecturing, graphic design, website design. He teaches his pattern cutting techniques across the UK Europe and Asia.
you can visit HIS WEBSITE ONLY ON WEDNESDAY FROM 10am-8pm!!!
Circles in the air
she knows what we want
Lidewij Edelkoort, often called Li is a Dutch trend forecaster. For more than 30 years Li Edelkoort has been analysing moods, fashions and feelings and translating them into trends. When she speaks, the industry listens: major brands count on her to successfully target consumers.Specialized in trend forecasting and the creation of a collection of seasonal trend books and audiovisuals for the textile and fashion industries as well as the interior, retail, design and well being markets.
Travelling, shopping and searching the world over, she is constantly gathering information and emotions, studying the fabric of society, picking up materials, words, figures and flowers like a global beachcomber
Twice a year, Li Edelkoort also creates a 20-minutes audiovisual presentation that sets out in a clear and inspiring manner the trends that correspond to her general Trend Book( printed in a limited edition of 250 books). This presentation is shown to Trend Union’s clients, with viewings in Paris, London, Stockholm, New York, Tokyo, Seoul and Amsterdam and expresses the trends in images, words, fabrics and materials that are sourced from all over the world and carefully assembled by the Trend Union team.
The British design magazine i-D listed her among the world’s 40 most important designers and Time magazine named her one of the 25 most influential fashion experts of our day.
Studio Edelkoort’s philosophy can best be described by four key words, which are leitmotifs:
- holistic, understanding the singular thanks to knowledge of the global;
- audacity, choosing for preferences;
- exclusive, made-to-measure, that which is unique and confidentiality;
- prospective, providing a modern and avant-garde approach.
transform fashion
Style.com fashion reportage of his fashion show 2007 with the wonderful Tim Banks:
Hussein Chalayan was born in nicosia, cyprus in 1970.Chalayan is an internationally regarded fashion designer who is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitude to new technology. he was educated both in cyprus and england,at london’s strict highgate boarding school.in 1993 he graduated from london’s central st martins college of art and design. he caused a sensation with his graduate collection – decomposed silk dresses he had buried and exhumed. since then he has produced more than 20 collections and twice been crowned british designer of the year (1999, 2000). Chalayan is inspired by architectural theories, science and technology. he famously produced a collection which included chairs and tables that became garments.
Chalayan has also designed costumes for opera and dance performances.Hussein Chalayan represented turkey at the 51st art biennale in venice (2005). He was awarded the M.B.E. (member of the order of the british empire) in the 2006 queen’s birthday honors list for his services to the fashion Industry. Since 2008 he is also Head designer of the german brand Puma.
In early 2008, he designed a series of laser LED dresses in collaboration with luxury label Swarovski, showcased in Tokyo.
His newest exhibition:
“İstanbul Modern is pleased to present the most comprehensive exhibition in Turkey of works by Hussein Chalayan, one of the leading names of contemporary art and fashion.
Presenting fashion as an area for exploration, where concepts find an expression, Hussein Chalayan challenges the preconceived notions about the meaning of clothing. Inspired by ideas drawn from disciplines not readily associated with fashion, and motivated by the political, social and economic realities of today, he creates designs that explore his conceptual ideas with a philosophical approach. His garments are imbued with the thought processes behind them while his acclaimed runway shows function as performance pieces. Besides fashion collections, he makes installations, directs short films and designs costumes for stage.
Previously presented at the Design Museum, London and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, this touring exhibition curated by Donna Loveday brings together fashion collections, installations and films produced by Hussein Chalayan between the years 1994 and 2010. Inspired by architecture, philosophy, science, history, anthropology, biology and technology, the selected works reflect Chalayan‟s views on a range of themes including genetics, technological progress, displacement, migration and cultural identity.”
Amazing fashion show, where the cloths can transform themselves! really impressive!
can’t wait
Istanbul, I am coming. I will spend 9 days there. And I am looking forward to see O., B., S. and S.. It is going also be interesting to see what the Istanbul Fashion Week is producing, I will report after my holidays!
couleurful
Françoise Nielly’s massive, couleurful portraits are delicious to look at.. She paints her vivid, passionate canvases from black-and-white photos, further proof of her unfailing ability to interpret light, shadow, hue and tone by applying brilliant colors and daring strokes.
Born in Marseille, brought up near Cannes and Saint-Tropez, and now living in Paris, Nielly is at home among bold contrast and dazzling light. To add to her likeability, here is the list of her loves: Life, wide open spaces, sushi, blue lagoons, the Internet, humor, books, Paris, New York and Vancouver.
just lean back and listen and laugh
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.
She’s a longtime magazine writer – covering music and politics for Spin and GQ – as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Her books include the story collection Pilgrims, the novel Stern Men (about lobster fishermen in Maine) and a biography of the woodsman Eustace Conway, called The Last American Man. Her work has been the basis for one movie so far (Coyote Ugly, based on her own memoir, in this magazine article, of working at the famously raunchy bar), and now it looks as if Eat, Pray, Love is on the same track, with the part of Gilbert reportedly to be played by Julia Roberts. Not bad for a year off.
looking forward to September
My illustration teacher and also one big role model is Tina Berning, an illustration star in Berlin and around the world ( already done an article about her, click here) is showing more than 30 works with the famous fashion- and beauty photographer Michelangelo Di Battista. Their exhibition called FACE/Project is going to start on the 4. September at the gallery Camera Work.
Within their collaboration, they aim at blurring the boundaries between fashion photography, drawing, and painting. Ignoring the computer’s possibilities for manipulation, they combined their fields of work, photography, and drawing, in an analogue way. ( via Gestalten)
Under the portrayed model, there are for example Claudia Schiffer, Amber Valetta or Julia Stegner. And the exhibition is supported by Vogue Italia, Hatje Cantz, Moet & Chandon, Estée Lauder. Not bad! I am looking forward to see her, their, his work!
4. September 2010 – 30. October 2010
Galerie CAMERA WORK
Kantstrasse 149
10623 Berlin
Opening time:
Tuesday – Saturday 11:00 – 18:00 h
Aitor Throup
Aitor Throup was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1980. He graduated with the MA Postgraduate Degree in Fashion Menswear from the Royal College of Art in London in 2006. The illustrator / fashion designer Aitor Throup’s intriguing work has been well documented. not only have most of the better-known fashion magazines closely monitored the young designer but his illustrations also seem to have won him plenty of fans. He describes his work as wearable characters. clothes with anatomy. fabric art.
Aitor is fascinated with anatomy and his main interest is drawing. His hand drawn characters become the primary tool in the exploration of his ‘justified design philosophy’, which highlights the necessity of a reason or function behind all design features
how to architect informations
Information architecture (IA) is the art of expressing a model or concept of information used in activities that require explicit details of complex systems
Between 2008 and 2009, they architected and designed eight news sites, two online services and ten corporate sites. All our clients’ websites combined produce over 3.4 billion page views per year. (ZEIT ONLINE, krone.at, Tages-Anzeiger, Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung, FACTS 2.0) they invented also the “tabs” system for Mozilla.
And they design each year the Web Trend Map!
AND THIS IS A REALLY COOL OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNET!
Edgy
Xavier Veilhan (1963) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris.Whether he uses digital photography, sculpture, public statuary, video, installations or even the art of the exhibition, Xavier Veilhan builds his work around the same axis: the possibilities of representation. One of the most striking features of his polymorphic practice is that he treats generic objects and shapes of everyday life so that they come out smoothed, without details, and resistant to any psychological insight. Since the 1990s, bestiaries occupy a significant place in this process, and among them, penguins and rhinoceros of unnatural colours, made of painted polyester resin.
In 2009 Xavier Veilhan showed his works in the Gardens of Chateau de Versailles near Paris, France, and apartments of the Versailles Palace.“My project for Versailles mainly addresses the outdoor realm, following an east/west axis across the estate”
