mix and layer with gold bangles, friendship bracelets etc.Tuesday, May 17, 2011
JEWELRY: bright dots + oxidized silver bangles
mix and layer with gold bangles, friendship bracelets etc.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
NYC: walking across the Brooklyn Bridge
Recently I walked across the bridge one early morning encountering mostly tourists and joggers.From The Great Bridge by David McCullough:
In 1855, John Roebling, the owner of a wire-rope company and a famous bridge designer, proposed a suspension bridge over the East River after becoming impatient with the Atlantic Avenue-Fulton Street Ferry. Roebling worked out every detail of the bridge, from its massive granite towers to its four steel cables. He thought his design entitled the bridge "to be ranked as a national monument� a great work of art."
Read more at
http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/brooklyn/
JEWELRY: Opal's ring
This ring was re-created from a white gold pendant with the large blue pear shaped topaz.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
SONIA DELAUNAY at COOPER HEWITT
Sonia Delaunay's work is very identifiable but what I took away from this show was her contribution and influence in the interiors world with her work for METZ&CO, a Dutch department store. VAN CLEEF ARPELS at COOPER HEWITT NYC
I was never a big fan of their styling but this show was impressive in scale with a very complete range of early pieces to "celebrity owned" pieces. I loved the transformation group in which each piece transforms into multiple separate pieces like this bird brooch above, the wings of the bird become earrings and the drop becomes a pendant. The quality of the gemstones was astounding as most gemstones today (even very expensive ones) has been enhanced in some way, with modern technology. The colors and quality of the gemstones are amazing, for example the docent explained that the emeralds in the earliest pieces came from Egypt, today most quality emeralds from Columbia.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Vivienne Westwood 1980-1989 at FIT
pirates...bondage...tartans......bums.......s+m....she cleverly manipulated these themes to create her own original English eccentric iconic look, see the small tribute to her at FIT/NYC.
Vivienne Westwood 1980-89
Vivienne Westwood 1980-89
Gallery FIT
March 8, 2011 - April 2, 2011
Gallery FIT
March 8, 2011 - April 2, 2011
 Vivienne Westwood, “Rocking Horse” boots, leather and wood, 1987, England, Gift of Francisco Melendez A.K.A. Francois. | Vivienne Westwood 1980-89 will be the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Westwood’s fashions of the 1980s and highlight the significant shift in Westwood’s design style during this decade. Her work of the early 1980s was prominently featured in edgy magazines such as i-D, and her following was comprised mainly of street-style insiders. By 1985, her more structured, feminine, and historically-inspired styles began to attract the attention of the mainstream press and widened Westwood’s audience. The exhibition will include a unisex ensemble from the Pirate collection (1981), a woman’s ensemble from the influential Buffalo collection (1982) and a pair of Westwood’s iconic “Rocking Horse” boots from the Harris Tweed collection (1987). Editorial photographs from magazines such as The Face and British Vogue will further illuminate Westwood’s impact on 1980s fashion, as will runway footage and video interviews with the designer. |
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
GREAT DESIGN: Gandhi inspired font
♡♡♡....simply genius, read more below
Leo Burnett India ad agency commemorated the 141st anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth (October 2, 2010) by creating an alphabetical font in the Devanagari script in the style of Gandhi’s trademark wireframe eyeglasses. The special typeface was the brainchild of Burnett’s national creative director KV “Pops” Sridhar, who wanted to inspire younger generations with the teachings of Gandhi. The glasses symbolize Gandhi’s vision and his visionary thoughts on truth and nonviolence. Sridhar explains, “The way he saw the world is completely different than the way we do – and hence the glasses, to subtly nudge people into thinking like him again.” Gandhi had originally given the glasses in the 1930s to an Indian army colonel who had asked the great leader for inspiration. Gandhi reportedly gave him his glasses and said, “These gave me the vision to free India.”
Burnett staff designers and typographers spent several weeks working on the digital eyeglass font, which they posted on the website. Visitors to the site can download six posters, each featuring one saying of Gandhi, as well as the font as wallpaper or a screensaver. Currently the font is only in Devanagari, but will soon be available in English, Tamil and other major languages. The educational website also made Gandhi’s eyeglasses interactive. By clicking on the glasses, different parts fly off to become part of the font, forming a mantra or a letter of the alphabet. The site also contains a message board so people can specify which Gandhi saying they want on their poster, or make their own Gandhi sayings and proverbs for use in a nameplate or other medium. Leo Burnett India is also promoting the font on Facebook, Twitter and other social network platforms and allowing Facebook users the option of having their profile page transformed entirely into the Gandhiji font. Plans also call for the creation of typeface imprinted merchandise such as postcards, mugs and T-shirts.
http://www.atissuejournal.com/2011/02/08/mahatma-gandhi%E2%80%99s-words-in-his-own-type/#more-5341
STATE OF CRAFT part 2
Collaborative exhibit between Fendi and Design Miami December 2009. Excerpt from NYT magazine below. For three days during Milan’s design week, Spazio Fendi was filled not with models parading down the runway but with young designers cutting, pleating, weaving and generally transforming materials and processes in live demonstrations, in “Craft Punk,” organized by Design Miami. Garden hoses were turned into chairs, ceramic vases were decorated by means of an old-fashioned photographic printing technique, and scraps of leather discarded from Fendi’s factories became tabletops, to name of few of the freewheeling projects on display. http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/on-the-make-craft-punk-in-milan/
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