Unicorn/Dream Magazine
“Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.�
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Behind Unicorn/Dream Editor-In-Chief: Noni May Graphic Design (letters to crushes pages: )
Anna Paramita
Cover photography: Noni May Model: Lotte Meerdink
Contributors: Kalie Garett, Charlotte Boeyden, Giulia Agostini, Anna Paramita, Caroll Plangue, Soné “Polli”, Carmela Sagritalo, Brigida “Yardia”, Ivy Hakanson, Joe Speier.
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Issue 3 page 8 page18 page26 page 30 page 36 page 50 page 52 page 66 page 70 page 76 page 94 page 96 page 105 page 108
Blackground phpto by: Anna Paramita
Flickr Feature: Anna Paramita Les Petits Voyages De Paris by Caroll Plangue Tell Us Your Dream Etsy Feature: Yardia The Boy Who Fell To Earth by Charlotte Boeyden Poetry: “awake”by Carmela Sagritalo Stormy Weather, Swinging Moods By Noni May Letters to Crushes Polaroids by Caroll Plangue Empire Of The Sun By Giulia Agostini What we love about.. Autumn/Spring A History Of Us By Kalie Garett Blog Feature: Polli Our inspiration of issue 3
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or autumn, you’ll find issue 3 inspiring. We had lots uring this issue, so it’s a bit less than the previous isributors we normally have so the ones we had, had d ofcourse because we’re already working on the the year with a blast, so keep your eyes open.
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Love, Noni May. P.s did you see our “new” website?
Unicorn/Dream magazine
She is a very succesfull blogger, a very good designer and she loves to photograph. We are talking about Anna “Much Love” Paramita. She‟s with us from the start, but who is she? We did a little interview with the lady, we talk about her favourites, her background and Friday nights.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/muchlove-anna/
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Flickr Feature
Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself? Hmm, where should I start.. well I'm a 20-something blogger, based in Melbourne (Australia), had spent a few years in England as a child, but my roots are firmly in Indonesia. Apart from blogging, I also do some crafting, graphic/web design, and photography. I have a growing camera collection, I smile a lot, I love sushi, I do a lot of shopping at thrift/charity stores, and I'm socially awkward. What's your favourite cupcake? Red velvet
When did you start creating? I started creating handmade jewellery a few years ago, I think it was 2007. It was just something fun to do, and I started selling my creations in shops and through Etsy. The blog came after that, because initially I only had a blog as a place to promote my Etsy shop. However, since then, the blog has kind of taken a life of it's own, and these days I prefer to use it as an inspiration/ photography blog. So from there, began my obsession with photography. I wanted to take better photos for the blog, and was inspired by other photographers I noticed online. So I started exploring photography, especially film photography a lot more. I guess each of my passions have been interconnected in some way. My crafting lead me to blogging, which lead me to photography.
What do you like to do when you're behind a computer? Blog, tweet, catch up with other blogs, but if I'm not online I'd most likely be playing with Photoshop. What are your favourite blogs? Theres so many!! Daydream Lily, The Clothes Horse, Our City Lights, Yes and Yes... just to name a few. I love reading a variety of blogs, I don't stick to one specific "genre". Which magazines do you like to read? Lula, Frankie. What's your inspiration for the photos? The simplicity of every day things. I like finding something beautiful or interesting in what other people may consider plain or ordinary.
What's your favourite friday night? A nice dinner out with my closest friends is probably the best way to end a long week. What's your favourite sunday(morning)? Sleeping in till 10, then have a big breakfast (toast, eggs, sausages, tea) in front of the TV. If there's nothing good on TV, I'd put on one of my Gilmore Girls DVDs, which I never ever get tired of.
What's your screensaver? We attatched it, itâ€&#x;s on the right. ♼
‌.Photography by Caroll Plague www.cutebone.net
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Dream by: Joe Speier, 18, Cincinatti, U.S / http://www.flickr.com/people/joespeier/
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Dream by: Ivy Hakanson., 23, Bergen, Norway
Hi, Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself? My name is Brigida, which is a name that combines my dad‟ s Swedish heritage and my mom‟ s Chamorro (Guamanian) background. I live in what was once the Scandinavian neighbourhood in Seattle, in a house with a black cat and a fairly prolific vegetable garden. Sometimes in the morning I can smell the ocean when I step outside my door. Where did you develop your style? I‟ ve been drawing and painting since I was a little kid. I also went to RISD to study painting, but I didn‟ t paint all that much while I was there. Instead, I made a lot of small sculptures out of paper and grouped them into installations. Then I started to incorporate drawing elements into my work, making tiny ink patterns on paper and cutting them out, then pinning the papers to the wall with straight pins. I really started to develop my drawing style after college, though, when I discovered how much I loved ink and calligraphy pens. My drawings have become more illustrative and traditional over the years, perhaps more simple in some ways, but more genuine to who I am now. Who’ s your inspiration, and this can be in life or in your drawings? I‟ m inspired by everything I read, of course, but especially Jane Austen, my favourite novelist. She is so honest with her wit! My grandmother started painting in her old age, and made these fantastic collaged seascapes and still lifes. Even though she died before I got the chance to really know her, I‟ ve always looked to her paintings for inspiration. Which artist/illustrator inspires you? There are so many! I admire Kiki Smith, Morris Graves, Charlotte Mann, and Mandy Greer. When I was in college I had an opportunity to work with an installation artist, Lynne Yamamoto, and she was a huge influence on my creative development at the time.
Etsy Feature What’ s your dream assignment? Even though I‟ m not much of a sequential artist, I‟ ve had a dream for a while of making a graphic novel version of Jane Austen‟ s Mansfield Park. Which of your paintings is your favourite? I‟ m rather fond of Crossed in Love. It was the first Austen illustration I made and I remember being so excited about it when I finished! My other favourite is Do Not Faint, simply because the quotation is something I try to remind myself of often. It‟ s a good motto to live by, I think. What kinda materials do you use for one painting? I usually work on hot-press watercolour paper, drawing with a metal tipped calligraphy pen that I dip into a pot of walnut ink. Sometimes I use a squirrel brush to paint with. My favourite pencil is made out of recycled newspaper and smells like peppermint. A student once gave it to me as a gift, and I‟ ve now used it down to a stump. I‟ ll need to find where to buy another one.
When did you start and Etsy shop and in what way did Etsy help you growing as an artist? I opened up my Etsy shop in the spring of 2008. When I started I wasn‟ t all that certain whether anyone would even see my work, let alone buy it, but then my prints were featured in some well-read blogs and things took off. Etsy helped me to become a lot more confident about my artistic decisions. Now I just make things that I really love, and hope that others will feel the same. What do you like most about Etsy? I like how it feels more like a community than just an online shopping site. I‟ ve made a lot of good connections through Etsy and have been given opportunities as an artist that might not have been possible without it. What would you like to accomplish in the future? I‟ d like to travel as much as I can to see beautiful places I‟ ve read about in novels…India, Russia, go back to England and Italy… I also want to learn more about printmaking than what I already know. Someday, perhaps, I‟ d like to get my Ph.D. in Art Education. Mostly, though, I hope to continue to draw, teach, and read lots of novels. ♥
http://www.etsy.com/shop/yardia
Photography: charlotte boeyden www.charlotteboeyden.be Model: Franรงois
Awa The thing about dreams is that they’re true.
for you. I am a star in the sky by the sea, a te
my dreams I live in a teacup in your kitchen,
a duet with the moon as our song. At sunrise
you’ll breathe the scent in with lips in a smil
flowers and walked away. You painted the w
and the windows turned to shadows. Darkn The thing about dreams is that they’re true.
and see birds die. T
Carm strikes in a te
ake I am a flower in a forest by the river waiting
eardrop in your eye, a word in your book. In
, you live in the seashell by my bed. We sing
e, I’ll find myself speckled with purple lilac,
le. One morning you understood the smell of
walls into stone, the door faded into smoke
ness said you took the stars in your pocket. It’s the middle of the night. I turn on the TV
Those birds are lies.
mela Sagrítalo is sometimes a sheep or a nocturnal woodland creature, whichever s her fancy, and refuses to reveal her true form unless she is bribed with milk tea eacup. In an alternate universe she is a Literature student at a very old university and sings as a soprano. www.facebook.com/mayseh
Stormy w swinging Photograhy: Noni May http://www.nonimay.com Model: Lotte Meerdink
weather, g moods
Polaroids by
Caroll Planque
Photography: Giulia Agostini http://www.giuliaagostini.com/
Models: Alice, Giada , Antonella, Giulia
14 Things we love about Autumn:
The beautiful sight of orange leaves Baking new recipes
Video marathons
Preparing the house for winter/december Watching the fireplace
Watching to the rain ticking on the windows
The first hot chocolate in a while
New wardrobe Cinema time again Long diner parties with our best friends—at home Starbucks’ “The Pumpkin Spice Lattes”, “Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins” and “Pumpkin scones.”
Fall tv
We let ourselfs eat just a little bit more, hello, december sweets!
Kiss and cuddle on the couch
14 Things we love about Spring: Waking up very early and not feeling tired
The flowers
New wardrobe Salade time again
Picnic’s
Open-toe wedges Sleeping with the window open First day of skirts Road trips with the windows open
Searching for new sunglasses
Craft a new photoalbum for all our summer photos
Making floral crowns
Beautiful light when the sun comes up
Spring flings
A HISTORY OF US
Photography: Kalie Garrett http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaliegarrett
Blog feature
We discovered Polli just recently, but we fell in love immediately. It’s a blog with a great vibe, you just feel loved while visiting the blog. All the inspiring photography, interior design and crafts just makes you wanna go creative. So we did a little interview with SonÊ and make sure you read the blog: http://sone-van-zyl.blogspot.com/
Hi, Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself?
I am a graphic designer, blogger, jewelery maker, collector, photographer a immigrated to New Zealand with my family and have lived here for 6 years When did you start blogging? I started in on 10/29/08
When did you first noticed your blog can be a success? When I started looking at other successful blogs, and thought "I can do tha
What do you do besides blog? I love baking! I honestly bake cookies almost every week, haha. I also play grow a little vegetable patch at the back of my house. I'd like to think that really enjoy op shopping and collaborating on graphic design projects.
and wife. I was born in South Africa and raised there till I was 17. I then s. I enjoy listening the The Beatles and drinking Moroccan mint tea.
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y indoor netball for a competitive team locally and I t I am a bit of a hippie at heart. Last but definitively not least I
What’s your favourite blog? Now this is a hard question, I honestly have almost half a b and daydreamlilly .
What are your fav. Magazines/books? I love Frankie magazine and Dujour magazine. I don't real tivate me. What’s your guilty pleasure? Strawberries & cherries dipped in chocolate with whipped
What do you like to do on a free Saturday? I rarely have a free Sunday, I usually attend church, do th nanna nap.
What's your fav. song at the moment? „Sun King" by The Beatles What can we expect from you in the future? I am working on an online shop which is vintage inspired.
book full of blogs I love. I enjoy ohhellofriend blog,
lly read books, I am visual and need pretty pictures cap-
cream and a glass of red wine hmmm.
he family or friend lunch thing and then sneak out for a
Very exciting!♼
Our inspiration for issue 3
Stay tuned for the December issue.. It’s gonna be very special! Custom drawing by Yee Von Chan and so much more!