b* creative Issue #6 July 2010 by b* creative

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Jul 1 – Jul 2 (p6-7) Jul 3 – Jul 4 (p8-9) Jul 5 – Jul 6 (p10-11) Jul 7 – Jul 8 (p16-17) Jul 9 – Jul 10 (p22-23)

Jul 11 – Jul 12 (p26-27) Jul 13 – Jul 14 (p30-31) Jul 15 – Jul 16 (p34-35) Jul 17 – Jul 18 (p38-39) Jul 19 – Jul 20 (p40-41)

Jul 21 – Jul 22 (p46-47) Jul 23 – Jul 24 (p48-49) Jul 25 – Jul 27 (p52-53) Jul 28 – Jul 29 (p54-55) Jul 30 – Jul 31 (56-57)

Featuring: Dongyun Lee (p14-15)

Featuring: Jana Jelovac (p24-25)

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Featuring: Patrick Gunderson (p44-45)

Featuring: Lora (p50-51) Featuring: Dan Wilkinson (p28-29)

Featuring: Bojana Knezevic (p36-37)

Editor’s Note Dear readers and friends, It has been a month of turbulence and mishaps, hence the lateness of the July issue, however, we kept our heads up high and didn’t give up! Computer viruses are a funny thing and the first time you have an experience with a serious one, you realise just how much you actually depend on your technology. Our home office was ‘out of order’ for almost three weeks and believe me, it felt like we were on another planet, completely disconnected from the rest of the world. It’s a shame too, considering we have such an awesome issue lined up for you this month. So the first thing I’d like to do is apologise to the wonderful artists that have been kind enough, not only to be a part of this issue, but also have the patience and understanding to wait for it to come out. I’d also like to send out an apology to all you fantastic readers, who make our dream possible and who have sent us all the support mail, asking when the next issue will be out – knowing you believe in us makes the wheels turn smoother! And so we come to this month’s theme…colour! I believe that colour is one of those things we tend to take for granted a lot. We forget just how important it really is and how a big a role it plays in our everyday lives. Colour can influence thinking, shape actions, and affect reactions. It can irritate or calm our vision, increase our appetite and blood pressure, and make us sad or joyful. Colour is light, a source of life within itself, and it exists everywhere. As one of nature’s most powerful signaling systems, colour is the first thing we register when assessing any situation we find ourselves in. Or instinctive recognition of colour will warn us when food has gone off, when someone is feeling unwell or when something has aged. As a form of communication, colour is an irreplaceable tool. Red means “stop” and green means “go” – traffic lights demonstrate this universally accepted colour message. Similarly, the colours used for a product, website, business card, logo or brand, create powerful reactions. So this month, we have decided to pay tribute to this amazing concept we call “colour” and bring you some inspiring work from around the globe that utilizes colour to get a message across. We have interviewed some amazing artists who all place a colossal emphasis on the importance of colour in their creations. As a special treat, we have also created a colour palette for each day of the month, hoping that you’ll be able to use them in your designs, paintings and creative concepts – or at least be inspired by them to create your own. And finally, before I leave you to check out all the remarkable inspiration we’ve got lined up for you this month, I want to urge you to keep an eye out on our upcoming issues because we will be having some awesome competitions that you won’t want to miss! So until next month, dear friends, don’t forget to: Imagine. Believe. Create. Achieve. Baki

Title: Catch The Light

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.â&#x20AC;? - Oscar Wilde

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by colour.â&#x20AC;? - Anonymous

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Christine Cushing’s Sauces At The Dieline Packaging for Canadian TV Chef Christine Cushing’s gourmet tomato sauces by Trish Papadakos in conjunction with The Movement. “The result was defining the personality of each flavour (ex. ‘Pure’ for Fresh Basil and ‘Daring’ for Spicy Garlic) and working with a colour palette which represented the flavours’ particular moods. The combination of the names and colours with an approachable and warm typographic system -- including Christine’s handwriting -- made her brand of sauces not only stand out among others on the shelf, but also seem fancy and special, while also looking like something that came from a friend. She gives you part of her recipe, along with her personal notes, right on the jar and saves the rest for her website.” - Andrew Gibbs for The Dieline

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.â&#x20AC;? - Leonardo da Vinci

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Featuring: Dongyun Lee 1. Name, surname and place of residence. Dongyun Lee, New York, NY 2. What sparked your passion for graphic design / photography / illustration/ writing / art? I was a nerdy kid who always read comic books and drew comic book characters. I always thought it would be great if I could get a job that I can draw all the time. That made me pursue to be an illustrator.

3. How creative were you as a child? I’m not sure how creative I was. But I’m sure I was good at making good (very creative) excuses to my mom when I was in trouble. I used to sell my hand drawings of popular comic book characters to

my classmates in elementary school. When I was in middle school I shared my three comic books that I made by myself. I know it was cheesy, but all of my friends loved them. 4. Where do you draw inspiration from when you set out to make one of your illustrations? I have always been interested in emotions that occur in everyday relationships, accidental interactions double meanings. Of course, movies, music and photography always inspire me as well. 5. If you could describe your work in 3 (or 5) words, what would they be? I would like to say “60’s retro with eastern philosophy”. 6. What sort of education have you had? After I have received my BFA in Visual Communication Design, I had worked as a graphic designer for a while in Korea. Then I moved to United States and received my MFA degree in Illustration as Visual Essay at School of Visual Arts. 7. Tell us a little bit about your first project and how you feel about it now? My first commissioned job was an illustration about “Hard times in New Orleans” from Paste magazine. I remember how excited I was after reading the email from the art director. As an illustrator who just finished school and tried to survive in the professional field, I felt that

the first job meant very big and unforgettable. After this job I started get more jobs from many different clients. 8. Tell us your philosophy on creativity. I believe that “me” is built by all the experience that I have done and the thought that I have shared with others. From the wider experience and deeper thought, I am changing to grow. I always want to see the changes that I am having and prefer to have the changes in good way. Having observed them, I hope to reflect the “real me” to my work. It is my philosophy on creativity.

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9. Whose work do you admire and why? I love Japanese comic artists like Akira Toriyama, Minoru Furuya, Takehiko Inoue. I grew up with their comic books. 10. What has been your greatest achievement so far? My greatest achievement so far is that I make living with what I want to do in the city where I want to live. As an illustrator? It’s too early to say something about achievement. 11. What are the top three websites you like? There are so many website I like but I say google. com, naver.com(Korean google), and dongyunlee.com 12. What is your favourite book/magazine? I love Isaac Asimov’s SF short stories. Nowadays I am so waiting for a new issue of The Deep Sea Fish by Minoru Furuya. 13. What are your plans for the future? I have not drawn comics after middle school. I am planning to drawing comics soon. 14. What is your advice for aspiring creatives? Absolutely hardworking. There are so many great illustrators and every year so many students graduate from so many art schools. If you want to survive in this field as a professional illustrator you should work harder than others. All the successful illustrators I know are extreme hard workers. 15. Personal motto? Work hard and play hard!

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resources* Why Colors Can Make or Break Your Design *re-source-s [ree-sawrs-es]: an available supply that can be Article by the good people at Instant Shift drawn on when needed. Color will be one of the first things anyone notices when visiting your site and it will be a large part of the initial impressions people form about you, your website, and your business. Color sets a moodand creates an emotional response in your audience. Set the wrong mood or create an undesired emotional response and little you do after will matter. You will have put people in the wrong frame of mind to absorb your content or buy your products and services. Color matters. There’s a lot for designer’s to learn about when it comes to color. A lot more than any one article can hope to deliver. If you haven’t studied color before consider this post an introduction that provides a path to further study. If you have studied color to some degree consider this post another in the steps along the path you previously started. We’ll quickly walk through color theory, the meaning different colors convey, and some thoughts on a few color schemes. First a little more information about why color is so important.

Why Color is Important Somewhere in the evolution of human beings sight became our most important sense for survival. Most of us rely on sight greatly and our initial impressions of anything new are predominantly based on visual cues. Marketing research has reported that approximately 80% of what we assimilate through the senses, is visual, and that much of that visual input relates to color. Brands are often defined by color (Big Blue – IBM) even to the point where there have been color trademark infringement lawsuits. Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. It

can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress your appetite. Color conveys meaning. It’s not enough to choose a color scheme for your website, because you like the way the colors look. You need to understand what messages different colors are sending to your audience and choose accordingly. A famous example of color choices is McDonald’s fast food restaurants. After commissioning a study about color McDonald’s learned that the color combination of yellow and red tended to make people hungry and then want to leave. Perfect for a fast food chain as it promotes both sales and a quick turnover. Is it any wonder the arches are golden and sit atop of field of red that contains the McDonald’s name? Color has also been used in the well being of hospital patients. Different color palettes might be use for different rooms or for different parts of the hospital. One set of colors soothing and uplifting for a patient, another set of colors designed to maximize visibility and productivity for staff.

Brief Introduction to Color Theory: Definitions We define color in 3 ways. By name, by purity, and by luminosity or the amount of light. We use a variety of terms to describe color in these 3 ways. • Hue is the actual color of an object. Red, green, and blue are all different hues • Chroma is the purity of a hue in relation to gray. Adding shades of gray to a hue reduces chroma • Saturation is also the degree of purity of a hue. It’s similar to chroma, but not quite the same thing. It’s how strong (highly saturated) or weak a color is. As with chroma, adding gray reduces saturation. • Intensity is how bright or dull a color is. Adding white or black lowers intensity. A color that is both intense and highly saturated, has

a high chroma. • Value is how much light is reflected from a color and is how light or dark a hue is. Adding white increases value. Adding black decreases value. • Shade is the result of adding black to a hue • Tint is the result of adding white to a hue. • Tone is the result of adding gray to a hue. You probably remember your primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. You’d mix red and yellow to get orange or mix blue and yellow to get green. Each color is reflecting light and as we add more colors we actually subtract how many colors are reflected. This is a subtractive system. Online we use an additive system to create colors. We aren’t seeing reflected colors, but rather colored light. Instead of a red, yellow, blue system we use a red, green, blue or RGB system. When combining colors we add more color, hence the additive system.

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mostly a cultural thing. In Western cultures white is used for weddings. In Eastern cultures, white is the color of funerals. Depending on your audience the color white can convey two very different things. Some color symbolism extends past culture and becomes global. Red is typically a color than means stop for example. When looking at the table of color meanings keep in mind that most of the color associations listed are likely for a Western audience and that some of these associations may not be what your audience will perceive when seeing the color listed. Determine who your audience is before determining what your choice in color means.

Color wheels are a way to represent the various characteristics of color defined above and there are a variety of color wheels to show different characteristics. One might be useful to show tints of a color and another might be useful to show shades of a color. Since there are different ways to express color relationships, there are different color wheels to represent those relationships. The color wheel below is an RGB color wheel. If you start at the very top and draw an equilateral triangle inside the wheel, the 3 corners of the triangle will touch red, green, and blue, which are our primary colors in the RGB system.

The Meaning of Colors Colors convey different meanings, however there’s no evidence to support a universal system of color meaning. Color symbolism is

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Color Schemes Everything to this point has been concerned with individual colors. When more than one color is used or you use different tones, shades, and tints of colors, you’ve created a color scheme. Many color schemes arise out of the color wheel and the positional relationship of one color to others on the wheel. • Monochromatic color schemes are formed by varying tones of a single color, moving toward the center or edge of the color wheel • Analogous color schemes are formed from colors adjacent on the color wheel • Complementary color schemes are formed from colors on opposite ends of the color wheel • Triadic color schemes are formed by choosing colors spaced equally around the color wheel • Tetradic color schemes are formed by choosing colors at the 4 corners of a rectangle inscribed on the color wheel • Split Complementary color schemes are a combination of analogous and complementary schemes. One of the two complements is chosen and it’s analogous colors are included in your scheme • Neutral color schemes include colors not found on the color wheel, namely various tones of gray and brown • Accented Neutral color schemes are neutral color schemes with colors from the color wheel used as accents The same way individual colors convey meaning, the way they are combined conveys meaning. Again keep in mind that the associations in the table of color schemes are culturally formed and may or may not apply to your particular audience.

A Few More Thoughts About Color We all have past associations with color and tend to be drawn to those colors in the present. While the tables above associated meanings with individual colors and color schemes, keep in mind that each of us brings our own associations to color based on previous experience. As important as color is, you still want to make sure your design works in the absence of color. Many people have color disabilities and won’t be able to clearly distinguish between some colors. Don’t let color be your only visual clue. You want to use value and intensity as well. Some people might find it easier to distinguish a dark red from a light red than they will a light red from a light green. You can run your designs through a tool like Graybit to see what your design looks like in grayscale. Too much color can be distracting and not enough color can be uninteresting. You want to vary your colors without overdoing it. Usually 3 – 5 different colors is a good balance.

Create a hierarchy of color. One color can be dominate, another color or two can be

subordinate to the dominant color, and the final color or two can be used as accents to add splashes of color where contrast is desired. Contrasting colors attracting attention and repeating colors imply similarity between design elements. Color can also be used to organize information by creating hierarchies and dividing one group of elements from another. Color plays an important part in brand and identity. If you can maintain a consistent color scheme across marketing media, your color scheme may be identified with your corporate brand. You can create depth in your designs through control of warm and cool colors. Warmer colors tend to move into the foreground and cooler colors recede toward the background. Darker colors are usually seen first and carry more visual weight than lighter colors.

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Summary Color is important, too important to ignore or tack on to the end of a design. You want to plan a color schemeearly in your design with the understanding of what meaning different colors and schemes might convey to your audience. Color helps us process and store information more efficiently than black and white and as a result we remember the information better. Remember that the meaning of color us culturally biased. Before determining what a given color will mean to your viewers make sure you understand who your viewers are and as much as you can about their culture. The same color color can mean very different things to two different people. Again consider this post an introduction to color or a waypoint on your color learning journey. Read other articles and books on color and experiment. One of the best ways you can learn more about color is through observing how others use color and identifying how their choices made you feel. Take what you observe and try applying it to your own designs.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter.â&#x20AC;? - Paul Klee

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.â&#x20AC;? - Hans Hofmann

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Featuring: Jana Jelovac

1. Name, surname and place of residence. Hello, my name is Jana Jelovac and I come from Belgrade, Serbia.

2. What sparked your passion for illustration/ graphic design / art? I really can’t say it was something particular. As the time went by my Interior Design project began to change, they had more graphics and less interior structure. At the end of the University, when we were presenting our graduated projects, one of my professors looked at my works and said “Here is our little Kandinsky” - by that time I knew that my ID carrier is finished and I found what will keep my blood rushing hurriedly through my veins. 3. How creative were you as a child? As an unruly child I was very curious and everything was attracting by my at-

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tention. I wanted to be a chemist, a doctor, but I was always making something with my hands. That was that tiny unconscious trigger I suppose. 4. If you could describe your work in 3 (or 5) words, what would they be? Emotional, honest, raw, anti-commercial and one of the kind in its own way. 5. How do you go about creating one of your fantastic pieces of work? Well, all I have in my mind at that moment is some kind of concept, which topic will suit the best for this artwork. Everything else is coming spontaneous as I continue working, what colors shall I use, what motives will be placed on them, and then, just like pieces of puzzle, they are all coming together creating that final image. 6. What sort of education have you had? My high school education started at Technical School of Architecture, and after that I got my Master degree at Faculty of Applied Art -department of the Interior Design at the Belgrade University. 7. Tell us a little bit about your first project and how you feel about it now? At the first years of my graphic design drive I was just randomly doing artworks, there were not connected to each other by topics, there were just my graphic thoughts at that time. My first real conceptual project was street and urban motivated, I’ve named it “Ghetto Youth©” and I still like it very much. 8. Tell us your philosophy on creativity. Creativity is certainly very widely topic to discus, but for me most certain thing of all is the ability to find

a very quality and original solution in a variety invincible and intricate situations. 9. Whose work do you admire and why? Obviously I like Basquiat and his art very much. He has certain incompatible combination of raw strength and fragile sensibility that I admire in his works. And also, works that he was providing was not just art because of art, they are passing emotionally strong message when you look at them, you can feel his struggle with the wrongful world.

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10. What has been your greatest achievement so far? My greatest achievement so far will certainly be the fact that I found something what fulfills me absolutely. If my artworks go with that, so it will be.... 11. What are the top three websites you like? Booooooom Design (http://www.booooooom.com/) is place you can find very interesting concepts and ideas in any kind of art form, and also Behance.net and Coroflot.com are perfect places to present yourself and you’re work to the hole world. 12. What is your favorite book? I read a wide range of writers in my past, that was the times when Márquez, Dostoevsky, Salinger and Hesse were sitting in my lap and just moved my braincells back and forth with their words. I love them all, my favorite book is always changing and maybe Selby JR. and his “Last Exit To Brooklyn” will by my choice at this time. 13. What are your plans for the future? My plans for the future are all packed in one not so easy achievement. Moving to Barcelona is that big steep that I need to make, and after that it will all go in the directions I chose and make. That is a very important thing for my because in Serbia your personal success depends on someone else decisions and unfortunately not by yours. 14. What is your advice for aspiring creatives? I must say that is very hard to be an aspiring creative these days. Design market is so high demanding for few past years, it is constantly looking for something new and fresh in the sea of lookalike works, so it is very important to stay unique and recognizable. Of course, that advice stands only for those who didn’t choose commercial and mass design for their professional destination. 15. Personal motto? There is one sentence from the film “La Haine” that says: “Mais l’important ce n’est pas la chute, c’est l’atterrissage”. That means “It doesn’t matter how you fall, what’s really important is how you land”.

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Featuring: Dan Wilkinson Congratulations it seems you are world famous in New Zealand, so to benefit those readers who live outside this hive of creativity please enlighten us as to what you do? I live on the southern coast of the north island in Aotearoa where I spend my time hanging with little ones & encouraging their creative development at our local playcentre. I have been facilitating a creative environment at NZ’s largest art provider, www. tlc.ac.nz for over a decade. People thrive when u give them freedom to express themselves. My life purpose is to capture the unique qualities of my local surroundings & decipher what gives the universe its energy & magic.

Ah I get it you’re a creative fireball then. On your website (danwilkinson.carbonmade.com) there is a piece called “Rebirth” that excites my eyes; it seems to me that chalk pastels are made of almost pure pigment does the energy in each pigment influence your work? YES!!! Because colours have vibrations, a bit like notes on a piano. When you combine those notes they can make chords & sound exquisite. Colours work like this when combined, they can create an eye pleasing effect & can give energy to the viewer. This is why one can feel so inspired & revitalised when they see a sunset or sunrise, or a brilliant flower in full bloom. I use the colours I see in nature as inspiration in my work. Talking about this colour vibration I remember being at Owhiro Bay for one of your Experimental Drawing classes. You helped me become more aware of some hidden colours that were dancing in front of my eyes without my knowing it, I felt like I was in a trance once I could see them. Can you explain what

this effect of seeing the world without labels like “blue” or “tree” is and how to induce it more? Seeing is believing, there is a lot out there... If one is willing to slow down & observe, they will see many amazing moments of visual pleasure. When one understands what one sees, he/she can develop a deeper understanding. This will, in turn, allow them to see more.

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I also remember a piece (or pieces) in a TLC tutor exhibition (can’t quiet remember what it was called please remind me I hope you have a nice photo of it somewhere) where the colours that lie beneath, which would ordinarily be an underpainting of sorts, were left exposed. How important is it for you to get under the skin of the land which seems to be a major part of your subject matter? I love giving a sense of what lies beneath, maybe the feeling associated with the land’s presence, or my experience as I drift across it. There are places that really resonate, and certain people are attracted to those areas. It’s quite a spiritual process. Is your use of colour linked to a philosophy on creativity or perhaps conspiracy theories? Yes, colour is energy that resonates, and can influence us in a lot of ways. It can affect our thinking and the way we feel. Colour is a beautiful thing that can be manifested into our creativity, and be expressed to raise the consciousness of the masses or individuals alike. Any advice for colorful aspiring creatives? Be true to your creativity, trust your own flow, and expect to find yourself in unexpected places & spaces!

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“Seek the strongest color effect possible… the content is of no importance.” - Henri Matisse

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35. “Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.” - Roy Lichtenstein

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.â&#x20AC;? - Claude Monet

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Featuring: Bojana Knezevic 1. Name, surname and place of residence. Bojana Knezevic, Melbourne.

2. What sparked your passion for fashion/ art? Well, what sparked my passion for fashion was I guess the need to be unique, eccentric, bold and exclusive â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not like anyone else. I like turning heads and showing everyone I like colours and prints.

ing through my growing up period, I collected leafs, tree branches, fruits, pets, you name it! I think this was the period where my family must have thought that I was crazy but hey I was just a little girl growing up. 4.Tell us a little bit about Borsha and where you draw inspiration for your designs?

Borsha is an up and coming label with a spin on colours, vintage fabrics, femininity and fun translated into unique one-off pieces. From classic backless to parachute 3. How dresses, my latest â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;urban fairytaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; creative collection is very feminine with a were you touch and a spin on originality and as a child? fun. It began with collecting, pretty much anything and everything I could get her hands on. In Spain when I was go-

My inspiration is from silly things such as lolly wrappers to more original things such as vintage fabrics. It is the colours and the materials that inspire me to put shapes together in my head.

5. If you could describe your work in 3 (or 5) words, what would they be?

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Colouful, unique and fun. 6. Does creativity run in your family? Yes, I believe it does. My dad is a freelance designer and poet, my sister Jelena is a Graduate Architect and my eldest sister Nina is a successful Graphic Designer working in my home town of Sarajevo. 7. Tell us your philosophy on creativity. I believe that everyone can be creative in their own way, they just have to get it out there and show the world what you’re made of. 8. Who’s work do you admire and why? Right now, it would have to be Akira Isogawa and Nicola Waite. I believe they both are amazing designers and wonderful people. The fabrics they use and the ways in which they use the shapes to suit a woman’s figure is wonderful. 9. What is your advice for aspiring creatives? Live your dreams and you’ll inspire and be inspired. 10. Personal motto? Live a colourful life.

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When life gives you an opportunity, grab it by the balls! Don’t hesitate, don’t second guess it. In our hearts and souls we have everything we’ll ever need. Reason is overrated nowadays. If Tesla had listened to his brain first, none of us would ever have heard of him. “Why is that?” – you wonder. Because he believed with all his heart and soul in what he was doing and that’s the main reason he was so successful and gave so much to human kind. Reason was just a technical thing that could never have been born if there was no heart, soul and intuition there to make it real. When I want to make a change in my life, no matter how big or small it is, I always get the feeling that I’m somehow stuck. When I feel stuck, when I feel as though my skin is two sizes smaller than it should be, that’s the time I pick up a spiritual phone and call my heart. First thing I say to it is “Sorry. Sorry for not listening to you, for neglecting you, for thinking that my brain knows better than you do, because it doesn’t! I know I made a another mistake, and I apologize. Will you forgive me and help me out?” And my heart is always kind; it never says: “I told you so.” My heart puts on its biggest smile and just says “Follow me. I know the best, shortest and fastest way to where you want to go.” And so I take its hand and close my eyes. And put it where I am. Right where I wanted to be. Right where I wanted to go with my “high IQ mobile”. So, my heart and I are best friends now, although I call on my IQ occasionally – bad habits die hard. Relying on my intuition is maybe the scariest thing in the world. Nobody teaches you how to listen to it. Nobody gives you a gold star for it at school. Nobody encourages you to use and develop it. The twentieth century has been too proud of its intellectual and material achievements to even acknowledge the existence of intuition. However, I think the twenty first century is smarter. It recognises that the universe has strict laws and it’s not about to change them, which is a good thing, since they happen to be pretty valuable ones. I used to be all about “Oh, look at me, I do this and I do that, and I have this award and I have this achievement.” And then (I cannot tell you the precise moment in time) it suddenly hit me – WTF am I doing? This was no way to live my life. It was a race and I could hear people applauding, but they are so far away that I could not see them. And the thing is, I couldn’t see myself, and it was only because I was trying to do what I was taught to do – be competitive and be the best in everything I did. No, no! That life ain’t for me. The only thing I want to be the best at is being myself! Whether you believe that “self” should be found or created, I suggest that you focus your energy on being the best at it. When one put his or her force into it, and concentrates on it hard enough, the results start to show almost immediately. And from that point onwards, it’s just a natural flow of endless inspiration and courage When I said to my heart and soul “Hey guys, I really want to meet you” – it was the best thing I could have done, because from then on, a wonderful, endless journey began. Hi, I’m Violeta and I am thrilled and delighted to meet me.

Sunday July 18, 2010

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Froosh At The Dieline Pearlfisher has redesigned the graphic design and brand identity for Swedish urban smoothie brand Froosh. Check it out below. “Tasked with creating a new identity that clearly fights smoothie-confusion in the Nordic market and powerfully communicates the pure fruit health benefits of Froosh, Pearlfisher has delivered a single-minded identity that puts key brand messages at the forefront of the design. Pearlfisher has created a unique logo, cleverly linking the double ‘o’ to symbolise a simple fruit emblem. The new logo is then complemented by the bold strapline that defines Froosh as, fruit: bottled. The bottle graphics create immediate on-shelf differentiation from the big players, with strong statements that speak directly to the consumer. The colour palette is simple fresh and contrasting, emphasizing the 100% real fruit recipe and increasing taste cues. Taken as a whole, it is a visual and verbal reinforcement of the brand’s no-nonsense approach, and has the flexibility to operate across all media. The new identity works across the 5 variants of the brand and creates a straight-talking brand that speaks with immediacy and a twist of humour. It also works to reinforce the brand’s positioning as the ultimate healthy yet filling snack. Natalie Chung, Creative Director Pearlfisher, “Froosh is one of those challenger brands that we enjoy working with, the guys were passionate about design and it was great to work on something where copy was so integral to the overall design. It’s a great brand with a new design that should help set it up for the future”. Froosh will be available by the end of June 2010 in five countries within the Nordic region and Germany. It sells within multiples, cafes, bars and vending machines.” - Andrew Gibbs for The Dieline

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Colour Blind â&#x20AC;&#x201C; By B. Subtracting colours would paint my world grey A pasty, omnibus of ashen haze Without a vivid palette of joyous shades Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be no expression, no identity, and no visual display An aesthetically baron life would exist No extraordinary kaleidoscope of colourful bliss Alas in my dreams I could reminisce About a harlequin tapestry projecting on my eyelids Everywhere I look is an explosion of illustration With lustful crimson an invigorating stimulation Bursts of colour rupture from every abrasion With water & light spellbinding a rainbow mutation Colours are an enigmatic delight From the vibrant stain of day to the deep hue of night With a masterpiece of tones continuously saturating my life I will always view the world with colour-besotted eyesight

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Featuring: Patrick Gunderson 1. Name, surname and place of residence. Patrick Gunderson Los Angeles, California, USA

2. What sparked your passion for design / photography / illustration/ art? I have been an artist since my first finger painting as a child. From the moment I discovered that things I made could look cool, I have endeavoured to make them so. Whether it was a book report or a game of sim city, my projects had style. I was lucky enough to have two computer engineers in my family who made me one of the first children of the internet generation so naturally I got into web design, my introduction to pixels. I spent all the time in

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my trig and geometry classes graphing functions on my TI-85 (ignoring the teacher), and I’ve been building from there ever since. 3. How creative were you as a child? Of course my mother would say I was a very creative child. In grade school we had an assignment to illustrate the letters of the alphabet. The other kids used “A is for Apple, B is for Bat, C is for Cat...” I changed it up and went with “A is for Acrobat, B is for Barn, C is for Camel...” 4. You have such a unique style. What inspires you to make one of your pieces and how do you go about doing it? I am really inspired by math, geometry, trigonometry, and relationships between shapes and equations. I love that perfectly curved lines can be described, transcribed and altered in a form that is nothing more than a simple, abstract set of rules. Then when the rules are executed, beautiful pictures emerge. I love the relationships of color and space and how I can manipulate their numerical relationships using mathematical rules and patterns. 5. If you could describe your work in 3 (or 5) words, what would they be? - chaotic - organized - intuitive

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6. What software and hardware do you use? I don’t really use any special hardware, I just keep my computer up-to-date and try to add as much RAM as possible - the more RAM I have, the more pixels I can manipulate, the larger the work I can make. As for software, I use Photoshop to play with colors and create a number of plates that will work as guides for color, shape and density for the final image. Then I use various programs I write myself using Actionscript or Processing to alter the plates, mixing them together and using different geometric transformations to give the images their unique look.

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7. Tell us your philosophy on creativity. A lot of people are out there saying that creativity doesn’t matter, or even that creativity doesn’t even exist. I am not one of those people. Hard work can get people a long way, but we will stall without creativity. I see creativity as the ability to solve a problem without having previously introduced to the solution. Many times that solution will differ from the standard way something is done offering a different point of view. More importantly, it prepares you for when you reach a point where there is no standard solution. 8. What are the top three websites you like? reddit - hello, my name is Patrick and I’m an internet addict. flickr - this is where i post my artwork. twitter - I get more great links from the people I follow than I can possibly look at every day. @gunderson 9. What is your advice for aspiring creatives? If you want to do something original, take two things that seem unrelated and find a way for one thing - or just a part of it - to affect the other. 10. Personal motto? Leave an impression.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.â&#x20AC;? - Pablo Picasso

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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way--things I had no words for.” - Georgia O’Keeffe

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Featuring: Lora 1. Name, surname and place of residence. Deep hidden secrets 2. What sparked your passion for graphic design / photography / illustration/ writing / art? Mostly – music I’m a music addict 3. How creative were you as a child? Creative enough to be the eremite in that childhood society 4. You have such a unique style (which we all love), how do you go about creating one of your “splashed” pieces? I really don’t know how to describe. It’s something about improvisation. The color depends on sound. 5. If you could describe your work in 3 (or 5) words, what would they be? La la la 6. What sort of education have you had? No education.

7. Tell us a little bit about your first project and how you feel about it now? Weeeell... I didn’t have any interesting project at first steps, nothing interesting to tell anyway. But one of the latest projects is working on the album of Billy’s band, which seems interesting to tell. But all I can say now is that this work has changed the feelings of my style.

Something from a dusty shelf in the deep of my heart. 8. Tell us your philosophy on creativity. One day life. don’t even try to predict it.

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9. Whose work do you admire and why? Lately - Chris Corner’s the most. Some kind of person whos work really inspires me. I like the color of his sound. 10. What has been your greatest achievement so far? Peace in my soul. Finally I’ve achived some harmony there. 11. What are the top three websites you like? Lately: - http://www.corbijn.co.uk/ - http://www.squeakecleanblog.com/category/nasamusic/ - http://www.banksy.co.uk/ 12. What is your favourite book/magazine? I am not fan of reading. 13. What are your plans for the future? No plans - i am a wave catcher! 14. What is your advice for aspiring creatives? No transactions with the devil, sweethearts! 15. Personal motto? Mäuschen!!!

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Francis Coppola Reserve At The Dieline “In keeping with the Coppola promise to make every visit to the winery memorable and unique, Francis Coppola created the Francis Coppola Reserve label—limited production wines that showcase distinctive vineyards from Sonoma’s renowned appellations.” Package design for Francis Ford Coppola Winery Art Direction / Design / 2010 Artist: Dean Tavoularis “Director of Winemaking, Corey Beck, hand-selects exceptional lots of fruit from these prestigious vineyards for crafting small-batch wines exclusively for winery guests, wine club members and those who shop with us online. Each lot is crushed, fermented, and aged separately through the final blending stage to ensure the finished wine is worthy of the ‘Reserve’ title In keeping with the Coppola promise to make every visit to the winery memorable and unique, Francis Coppola created the Francis Coppola Reserve label—limited production wines that showcase distinctive vineyards from Sonoma’s renowned appellations. Director of Winemaking, Corey Beck, hand-selects exceptional lots of fruit from these prestigious vineyards for crafting small-batch wines exclusively for winery guests, wine club members and those who shop with us online. Each lot is crushed, fermented, and aged separately through the final blending stage to ensure the finished wine is worthy of the ‘Reserve’ title” - Andrew Gibbs for The Dieline

Wednesday July 28, 2010

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Let’s Play Cooking At The Dieline Munich based designaffairs STUDIO recently finished their latest concept – Let’s play cooking. Turning a cooking kit with recipe and herbs, into a game to be played with your family. People who think cooking is a burden, or boring or dull will be gobsmacked how much fun it actually can be! Cooking is an experimental, cultural, exciting experience – and with “let’s play” it’s easy and fun! With its universal design, “let’s play” takes international cuisine to everyone’s kitchen as an easy cooking game. Greek, Italian or Thai recipes are surprising, cool experiences you can share with friends, family or kids. Divided in 3 nationalities and 4 levels, each packaging holds a unique, traditional, tasty recipe and a special herb mix fixed on the back of each package, adding an exclusive taste to every recipe. On the front of the package, the players will find 2 sets of playing cards: question as task cards. Up to 4 players can play – starting with shopping for ingredients. Opening the basket, tearing off the ingredients list and start filling in all the game elements is the next step. Wherever you want to cook, the game is then played with the 2 card sets. First, one of the players should read out a question card to the player on his left. If her or his answer is correct, the player will keep the question card and carry out the task written on the task card number 01, keeping this card too. In case the answer is not correct, the player who asked the question should carry out the task. The cooking process is the surprise element as the process is only revealed when the task cards are played (eg. chopping carrots; mixing the sauce with the herbs, etc). The cards have different value points. The player with the highest score wins the game! The question cards are culturally related to the recipes´ nationality. The “let´s play” kind of way, cooking is not only a playful and simple experience – it is even educational! The packaging design is unique, colorful and customized. Each nationality is identified with a traditional pattern printed on the central ring and the cooking levels are represented by different color codes. “let’s play” brings life to your kitchen – a playful get together experience mixed with the pleasure to enjoy a tasty homemade meal.” - Andrew Gibbs for The Dieline

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.â&#x20AC;? - Edvard Munch

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Wallpaper of the Month #1: http://abduzeedo.com/wallpaper-week-80-jameswhite Wallpaper of the Month #2: http://abduzeedo.com/wallpaper-week-112-oit8doi2 Wallpaper of the Month #3: http://abduzeedo.com/wallpaper-week-65-mu

Feature Artists Dongyun Lee: dongyunlee.com Jana Jelovac: http://boyacreative. blogspot.com/ Dan Wilkinson: danwilkinson.carbonmade.com Bojana Knezevic: http://borsha.net/ Patrick Gunderson: http://pat.theorigin.net/ Lora: http://www.bananca.co.uk/