written June 22nd, 2009 ·
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The idea for this project came to me as a mental image. I began by taking photographs in my kitchen. The first round of images were not great so I did the photo shoot once again and got a good amount of usable photographs. Then I photoshopped all the images and created the collages in InDesign. I first paired the images. One arm with one leg. I tried to come up with visually interesting combinations with a lot of bodily movement. Then I created the black and white forms between the body parts so as to allude to a hidden torso and also to create tension and visual movement within the square canvas. This was an intuitive process. I didn’t do any sketches for the black and white shapes. I did view the collages as a series though and made sure that each individual piece was standing on its own as well as working with the others, so there was a lot of editing of the black and white shapes after the initial designs were done. read more…
Posted in Collages, Fashion, My Design Work, My Photography
written June 22nd, 2009 ·
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A while back, I designed a CD cover for the Rokia Traore album Bowmboï, and since then, I have extended the project to include a poster design as well. I used the circular elements from the CD cover in this design as well, and chose not to include the musical notations that I developed for the CD cover, because I wanted to make the poster more minimal and visually striking.
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Posted in Music, My Design Work
written June 22nd, 2009 ·
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I have been using my time off to complete all of the projects I have been meaning to complete for the past (sad, I know) year or so. Selling my jewelry online was one of the main projects on my to do list and I have been working towards that goal for a few months, taking high quality photos of my creations and working on many new designs.
So here it is! My Etsy shop is called Chic Handmades.
Posted in My Jewelry, My Work
written June 22nd, 2009 ·
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My username on Flickr is Delftie and my images are here. So far, I only have a few random photographs uploaded, but I also have uploaded multiple images of my jewelry designs! I will try hard to upload more of my photography soon.
Posted in My Photography, My Work
written June 22nd, 2009 ·
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For those of you who do not already know, I have my Graphic Design portfolio online! I am so happy that I was able to get everything online this past January with much help from my boyfriend Wojtek, my personal programmer. Enjoy!
my website
Posted in My Design Work, My Work
written June 19th, 2009 ·
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Image from Spiegel.de
Back in April after reading a review on Spiegel.de, I immediately bought tickets to see Shakespeares Sonette (german title) directed by Robert Wilson and music written by Rufus Wainwright in Berlin. I was totally intrigued. read more…
Posted in Art, Life in Berlin, Music
written June 19th, 2009 ·
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Holi, the Hindu festival of colors.
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Posted in Inspiration
written June 19th, 2009 ·
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When I read fashion magazines, one of the things that always seems to bug me is when an article discusses specific work of an artist or designer, but they don’t show a coordinating image, so those who are not in the know are totally clueless as to what the author is referring to. Even worse is when there are photographs to refer to, but there are no credits indicating what is what, and it leaves the reader with no idea of whose clothes are being shown! (Honestly, I have not seen this that often, but was shocked to find it in a really well designed fashion magazine.)
Here is what I came across. read more…
Posted in Graphic Design, Typography
written June 2nd, 2009 ·
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I just listened to the BBC’s World Have Your Say podcast from yesterday, June 1st. They were discussing whether it was fair that the judges on the TV program Britian’s Got Talent completely and obviously prejudged a contestant Susan Boyle as having no talent based solely on her looks. I watched a clip of her singing before I listened to the podcast to see what all the fuss was about and I was really shocked at the way the judges looked at her in disbelief when she came on stage and also how the audience members looked around as if, how on earth could she have any talent. It was almost like these clips were purposely thrown together to increase the drama and push viewers to question her talent as well.
I think it is horrible how we judge people based on looks, but I also think it is in our nature to do so, unfortunately. This, however, does not make it right and we, as morally decent human beings, should strive to overthrow these inclinations as best we can. We should only look to our own friends and coworkers to see that people are varied in appearances and talent. read more…
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