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Showing posts with label Creative Ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creative Ideas. Show all posts

Sacha Goldberger Updates Vintage

These awesome photos were made by French photographer Sacha Goldberger. His 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother Frederika was feeling lonely and depressed.
To cheer her up, Sacha suggested that they shoot a series of outrageous photographs in unusual costumes, poses, and locations.

So UPDATE, UPDATE... Perhaps not your gran but those items in your  life that are looking a little tired. Visit here for one simple idea you could take on this year to bring life back to an old loved item.

Turn Your Flick'r Photos Into A Design Icon



It really is time to start using those pictures you have been uploading to Flick'r. 

 It excites me how craft, DIY is capturing this extraordinary time in design history. With the online obsession of Flick'r and blogs it is a no brainer that we are seeing young designers expressing this online past-time in their designs. Textile designer Dorte Agergaard  known for her use of digital printing is inspired by everyday objects that are rearranged and placed in a new context, playing with our notions of normality  "I'm fascinated by ordinary things which surround us in everyday life," says Dorte. 
 
"Throughout design history we have embellished and marked objects to capture the time it was made. This is something we wanted to explore more through our designs" says Stefan Baijings.

Adding digital printing to your textiles or furniture is a fantastic way to update the bland and the boring.

If you do make sure you share them with us.

Recession Design


The recession may be over (fingers crossed) but making do, do it yourself, being frugal stingy or perhaps saving costs is thriving. Yep it's become more and more obvious as I browse blogs, Etsy, websites and magazines you are all hungry in knowing how can I make that! From hanging a quirky coat hook to growing your own vegies at home to baking the perfect cake has consumed us all. The credit card is staying in the wallet and the electric screwdriver is coming out. Goodbye flatpacks hello manual books? 

As discussed on Icon Eye there were no products in the Recession Design exhibition in Milan during the Salone back in April, just a set of instructions for visitors to pick up so they could make the products themselves.

The exhibition was one of the few shows in Milan organised by a group of Italian designers. While the overall theme for the rest of the fair last year was refinement, the emphasis here was cheap and rough "because we think that in this period it's important to make design projects with no money", says graphic director Michelangelo Petralito – words that will no doubt fall better on consumers' ears than designers'.

Initiated by Italian architecture practice Pop Solid, the exhibition's 18 designers (mostly from Italy, but also Japan, Spain, Portugal and Serbia) each designed pieces that you could make with materials from your local DIY store. While the concept might be rough, each product was beautifully presented as a leaflet, with a seductive lifestyle photograph on the front, and a set of simple instructions on the reverse side. 

The paintbrush hook is my favourite and more of my speed. 

Home Alone

What do three girls do when they are on Christmas break and home alone? 


They let their imaginations run wild by dressing up and being silly. The result is breathtaking. The photographs are by the very talented 15-year-old Brit photographer Emillie Ferris who declares we inspire her... Well I'm glad we can help Emillie if it means she takes photos like this 

Cable Drawings

What a cheap but effective idea! I heart this by the talented Royal College of Art graduate Maisie Maud Broadhead.