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5 BEST BLOGS FOR DESIGNERS 1. Design Clever
Design Clever is a collaboration by Jonathan Ring and Bethany Baker - two aspiring Graphic Designers with a passion for everything design related. So, they created this brilliant Tumblr blog to collate anything and everything that inspires them. “This blog was created to showcase talented designers all over the world and their amazing talents,” they explain.
2. Adult Art Club A creative practice working in the grey area of design, art direction and illustration, Adult Art Club is run by Jonny Costello. The Tumblr is packed full of inspirational imagery including beautiful photography and graphic design. Head here for class and elegance.
3. Design is Fine, History is Mine A creative practice working in the grey area of design, art direction and illustration, Adult Art Club is run by Jonny Costello. The Tumblr is packed full of inspirational imagery including beautiful photography and graphic design. Head here for class and elegance.
4. Design Everywhere
Design Everywhere is a daily dose of visual inspirations found by Preston Tham and Michelle Yong. Unless otherwise stated, everything you see or read on the DesignEverywhere blog is the property of respective owners. We adore their selections, which make for that perfact impact of inspiration.
5. F*ck Yeah Interior Designs!
Surprisingly, you can find tonnes of inspiration in interior design no matter which design method you currently practise. There’s hundreds of influences and styles, which can only help to improve your own work. What’s more, you can stare at your dream home for hours. 4
1. When your friends ask you to hangout, and you don’t feel like it, don’t go. Don’t ever do things halfway
or do something that makes you uncomfortable. With everything, give all of yourself, even the pieces you never knew existed.
2. It is okay to not know. Everyone always despises the phrase, “I don’t know” but no one tells you that it
is okay to not know. The becoming is more important than the being, anyways.
3. If someone ever makes you feel less, in any way, you have every right to walk away. You have
every right to cut out toxic people in your life. To close the door on people who make you feel bad about who you are or what you stand for. Friends don’t tear down, they build up.
4. Loss is always going to happen. Just like paint will always chip and rain
will always fall, loss will always be part of life. No matter how much I don’t like it, or avoid it, it is going to walk my way at several times in my life. Learn to embrace it and learn to get closure.
5. Give yourself a chance. Stop saying, “I don’t think I can” or “But what
if I am not able to?” and give yourself a chance. This may be cliche, but try to believe in yourself. When you get older, your knees won’t work the same and you won’t have the best memory, and you are going to wish you’d given yourself a chance years sooner.
10 things I learned before I turned 20 Amanda Heln
6. Fall in love. Don’t be guarded before you fall in love. You could
fall in love three times and still not find the right one, but none of it is going to make “the one” matter less. Don’t fall into that idea that your first love has to be your best love. Fall in love as many times as it naturally happens.
7. Firsts are going to be messy. First loves, first kisses, first dates,
first failed tests, first college class, first time you drive a car, first time you ride a plane - first times were made to be imperfect. Just because it’s messy and all over the place, doesn’t mean it can’t be good or worthwhile.
8. You want another scoop of ice-cream? Go get it. Get three more scoops
of ice-cream if that is what you want. “Fat” is not the opposite of beautiful and it is not the opposite of happy. Don’t let anyone tell you that your body type isn’t beautiful. Beauty is a social construct, create your own, become your own.
9. Let yourself be alone. Loneliness is not a bad thing. It is healthy and normal. Everyone needs to spend a good portion of their life alone. We learn who we are when we are alone; life is less crowded and more clear when we are alone. 10. If you aren’t happy where you are, change it. Quit your job, move, become a vegetarian, get a new hobby, pick up an old hobby, whatever you do - make sure it benefits you. Life is too short to not be alive, to not be passionate, and overflowing. amandaspoetry.tumblr.com 5
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LANG LEAV The enchanting work of contemporary author and artist Lang Leav swings between the whimsical and woeful, expressing a complexity beneath its child-like facade. Her imagination stretches across a variety of disciplines encompassing art, poetry and books. She is currently represented by New York literary agent Al Zuckerman from Writers House. Frequently invited to exhibit at high profile exhibitions locally and overseas, she has since built up a loyal following of international fans. Her handcrafted book, Charlie’s Widow, was presented to iconic film director Tim Burton at the opening of his Wonderland exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Lang is a recipient of The Qantas Spirit of Youth Award and was later granted a coveted Churchill Fellowship.
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Her fashion label Akina has achieved critical and commercial success, stocked in key boutiques around Australia and later in cutting edge Harajuku, Japan. She has completed shows in several cities including Santa Monica for the renowned Copro gallery; who have worked with artists such as Mark Ryden and Audrey Kawasaki. She was hand-picked to exhibit in the landmark ‘Playboy Redux’ curated by The Warhol Museum and Playboy Enterprises; alongside contemporary greats such as Gary Baseman and Tara McPherson. In 2013, Lang launched her latest book Love & Misadventure, published in the US by Andrews McMeel. The Amazon #1 Bestseller is now available from major bookstores worldwide including Barnes & Noble, Kinokuniya, Fully Booked, Waterstones, Periplus and Chapters/Indigo.
SOULS THE KEEPER You were like a dream, I wish I hadn’t slept through. Within it I feel deeper, than your heart would care to let you. I thought you were a keeper, I wish I could have kept you.
When two souls fall in love, is nothing else but the yearing to be close to the other. The presence that is felt through a hand held, a voice, or a smile seen. Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to be with one another. This is the reason why you miss someone so much they are not there- even if they are only in the very next room. Your soul only feels their absence- it doesn’t realise the separation is temporary. Can I ask you something? Anything. Why is it every time we say goodnight, it feels like goodbye?
JUST FRIENDS I know that I don’t own you, and perhaps I never will, so my anger when you’re with her, I have no right to feel. I know that you don’t owe me, and I shouldn’t ask for more; I shouldn’t feel so let down, all the times when you don’t call. What I feel, I shouldn’t show you, so when you’re around I won’t; I know I have no right to feel it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t.
WALLFLOWER Shrinking in a coner, pressed into the wall; do they know I’m presnt, am I here at all? Is there a written rule book, that tells you how to beall the right things to talk aboutthat everyone has but me? Slowly I am witheringa flowerdeprived of sun; longing to belong to, somewhere or someone.
HER WORDS SOUL MATES I don’t know how it is you are so familiar to me– or why it feels less that I’m getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, and every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before– in another time, a different place, I guess,some other existence.
Love a girl who writes, and live her many lives; you have yet to find her, beneath her words of guise. Kiss her blue inked fingers, forgive the pens they marked. The stain of your lips upon herthe one she can’t discard. Forget her tattered memories, or the pages others took; you are her ever afterthe hero of her book.
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FAN ART Miley Cyrus victoria-shiryaeva-art.tumblr
Madonna najashleemercury.tumblr
Bruno Mars mister-evol.tumblr
Demi Lovato victoria-shiryaeva-art.tumblr
Sometimes, pop star fans are as creative as the artist themselves. One needn’t look any further than Tumblr for fans using their talents and skills as a way to demonstrate their love for their favorite musicians.
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Katy Perry jedavu.tumblr
Lady Gaga dollichops.tumblr
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