Outta Sight: February 2010

It's All Insperation

Although my work mainly revolves around the beauty seen in nature and through out the fashion industry, I draw my greatest inspiration from architecture, industrial and product design.

Thanks to blogs floating out in cyberspace(that I'm lucky enough o find) I'm provided with a wealth of inspiration. These are only a few of the amazing things creative minds are crankin out these days.

Hilariously brilliant conceptual product design is my favorite kind of inspiration.

From FlexibaleLove

Noteput By Jürgen Graef & Jonas Heuer

Noteput – Interactive music table from Jonas Heuer on Vimeo.

The Deafinite Style is a concept that turns a hearing aid into a piece of jewelry.

by Designaffairs Studio

FLKS-a flexible workplace

Dutch designers Kapteinbolt has created a flexible workplace, called FLKS. The furniture features a desk and chair that fold out from two hinged sheets. Design firm Kapteinbolt says:
"We like to introduce FLKS (flex), a flexible workplace. Just open the panels unfold the table and the chair and put the plug in for light. The legs from the table and the chair are provided with special designed joints, pull and turn 90°.

...brilliant!..would be great for art schools...

Arts and Craft Trash is Andrea Myers's Treasure

As much as I wish I knew what to do with the beautiful fragments of fabric and paper(a.k.a trash) left behind after completing a piece of clothing, collage or drawing, nothing I had dreamt up comes close to Andrea Myers's work.

Check out her work, it's outta sight

Within my artistic practice, I maintain an interest in exploring the space between the two- dimensional and three- dimensional, hybridizing painting, printmaking and sculpture. I feel my work is dependent upon various processes, such as cutting as drawing, the relationship between deconstruction and construction, and the inherent malleability and vulnerability of my chosen materials, namely fabric and paper. I identify myself as a painter who constructs painterly sculptures and installations. I am interested in using painting as a matrix to work against and to stretch into the realms of other mediums. I look to painting to inspire color and form, and extract the formal qualities to reinvent the boundaries of painting.

Rift. 2008. MDF, latex paint, layered fabric.

16x 24x 30" each piece

machine sewn fabric collage!..craziness...

For five weeks in the fall 2008, she was the artist in residency

at A Studio in the Woods, in New Orleans.

I really like this piece from this collection too..

A site specific temporary outdoor installation, the surfaces of the fragmented pieces are meant to reflect the canopy of the forest, while also suggesting references such as a broken mirror or glass, cracks in topography or a sprawl of islands.

One Love

I believe you should always take the opportunity to collaborate.

Although I primary work solo, I fell I've learned the most from collaborating with friends/fellow creative minds who work with a different set of tools.

To me, collaboration always results is a win-win situation.

Art directors Will Hudson and Alex Bec created the lovely If You Could Collaborate project.

Check it outtt.

"If You Could Collaborate is the fourth annual If You Could exhibition. Aiming to provide a platform for the finest creatives from all over the world to question their conventional working methods and outcomes. The contributors have been challenged to produce something a little unexpected, by working with a partner of their choosing from any discipline, profession or background. There is no brief to answer, or format to honour – the only limit being the enterprise and imagination of the artists involved, and a liberal 12 month deadline. Below are all of the pairings, and their outcomes."

Andersen M Studio

LekaGape

here!

Fontaine Anderson

Deanne Cheuk

here!

I came across If You Could Collaborate when hunting for news and info about my idol Deanne Cheuk.

Because she does it all, she is who I want to be.

(some of her work below)

CreativeMind:Andreia Chaves

Warning:

Hold on to your jaw..because it may fall off.

These conceptual footwear designers by Andreia Chaves are outta sight...well trying to be...check out her 'Invisible' shoes!!

I want to experiment with the Invisible shoe and wear them in different environments

(from the beach to the Saturday Night Fever disco dance floor).

"The fact that I grew up in a chaotic city like Sao Paulo, full of contrasts, being in contact with such diversity and constant exposure to different visual inputs, has inspired me in how I think and conceptualize my shoes. Looking at my work, I can clearly see influence coming from my South American sense of versatility. Also in the mix - what I have been experiencing in Europe."