Welcome to my blog
As a custom Jewellery designer and television broadcast stylist, it is crucial for me to have vast streams of information from the worlds of fashion, design, architecture, art and travel at my disposal. I draw upon media research, interesting people and places as well as my everyday environment for inspiration. Inspiration is a very powerful tool - it can fill us with exalting emotion, it arouses our senses, it stimulates our energies... and drives us to create!
" The best way to predict the future... is to create it "
This blog is a chronicle of my exploration of creativity... the things that awaken my senses and the things that move me to design.
I have always believed that the process of sharing ideas with others can illuminate and inspire us. Along the way, it is my hope others will share their inspiring stories of creation with me as well.
Welcome to my world.
My Little Muse
Above are images of my niece taken with my iPhone. She is beautiful, creative, very spontaneous and always ready for the camera. At the age of four, she became fascinated with fashion. Our little fashion consultant has been developing her own style and kindly offering wardrobe advice ever since :) My niece is a constant source of inspiration and a reminder of pristine childhood creativity, innocence and wonder.
Lady Gaga Invitations
Having conquered the pop music scene, Lady Gaga has moved on to more fashionable endeavors by infiltrating Barneys New York’s Madison Avenue flagship store. The unpredictable songstress has converted the space into Gaga’s Workshop, her avant-garde interpretation of Santa’s workshop and a wonderland of eccentricities. Though all are invited to see the spectacle, only a select few will be granted VIP admittance with the coveted golden ticket – an extraordinary invitation conceptualized and produced by Design Packaging, Inc.
Approached by Barneys New York, Design Packaging, Inc. was challenged with the impossible: deliver a show-stopping invitation worthy of bearing the Barneys name while enticing Lady Gaga fans in just 8 short weeks.
Ideation began immediately. Working closely with Creative Director Evelio Mattos the design team sketched a series of concepts which emulated Gaga’s Workshop in its most basic form - an iconic Barneys’ facade literally exploding with an unexpected Gaga visual spectacular. Within hours of receiving direction from Barneys New York, these illustrations became 3 dimensional mock-up samples complete with functioning pop-up details.
As soon as approval of the favored design was given, Design Packaging, Inc. began forming the invitation’s visual design. To ensure a cohesive feel from workshop to invitation, the pre-approved color palette and patterns were utilized. By deconstructing AVAF’s artwork, Design Packaging, Inc. reinterpreted key graphic elements for the pop-up’s illustration. Bewitching finger nails became trusses. The red sequined bodysuit and blue hair became panels of the pop-up and a dynamic backdrop for a clear VIP access card glistening with a holographic hot stamp.
Without the luxury of proofing time, Barneys New York entrusted Design Packaging, Inc. to deliver this invitation without seeing a final preproduction proof for color, materials, construction, or structural integrity. So, incorporating the approved palette provided color targets for Design Packaging, Inc.’s Hong Kong office to match on press and proved to be a critical design decision since the timeline did not allow for complete preproduction samples.
Even before production was finished, Design Packaging, Inc. began coordinating with Barneys New York’s logistics team. This helped facilitate delivery of the Gaga’s Workshop VIP invitations 1 week earlier than required.
Source: Barneys This Way
Loft 24-7, São Paulo, Brazil
Ideally, wouldn't we all like to live in a climate where outdoor living is possible year-round? And wouldn't we love to live in a space where the divide between indoors and outdoors is non-existent? São Paulo-based Fernanda Marques achieved this idealistic balance in her Loft 24-7 residence, presented at the CasaCor exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil.
In the 250-square-meter (about 2,700 square feet) space, Marques has erased the barriers by using "outdoor" elements inside and "indoor" elements outside and creating easy visual links between the two. Limestone, rough stone, steel, glass, wood paneling and furnishings that speak to the architect's modernist style, all create a harmonious, seamless environment where you are never quite in and never quite out.
Fernanda Marques is the chief architect at Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados that is involved in both residential and commercial architecture, interior design, furniture design and real estate.
Source: loft-247--sao-paulo-brazil
