(sonia delaunay inspiration)
(susan delaunay inspiration)
(vintage quilts)
(old windsurfing sails)
2.28.2012
Gathering thoughts on new textile design
SUN BLEACHED COLOR PALLETS & NATURAL, ORGANIC LINES. FEMININE FEEL TO THE DESIGNS, PRINTED ON STRUCTURED, MORE MASCULINE MATERIALS.
2.23.2012
TAP IN>>>TO CREATIVITY
The Handbook on Inspiration.
LESSON #2: When You Can't 'BUILD'
As an architect or designer, you feel passionate about building. Whether you are aiming to create a space for; a community to gather, a family to better utilize their main living area, an office building for millions, a cook to enjoy their kitchen more efficiently....it is all meeting some need concerning your "life's work" within this vast industry.
With a world in financial crisis, many architects and designers are left without knowing if they will be the next to go when the office is downsizing. Or if you are a small firm, what your next job will be...and how to maintain your business if it becomes months before the next project arises.
Something else to think about....
Even when you are living amongst a thriving economy and you are still finding yourself NOT 'building'....instead of holding on to your many years of schooling and that laundry list of credentials, why not do something you do best.....BE CREATIVE!
You can prepare in so many ways, but there is always the unexpected. Don't be caught off gaurd....Expect to HAVE TO BE CREATIVE in these days.
GO 'BUILD' from your creative energy....
confidence
clients
an audience
a business
a brand
a website
a garden
a relationship
KNOWLEDGE!
Some amazing inspiration comes from author Leonard Koren. A trained architect that created an avant-garde publication, out of Venice, CALIFORNIA, called WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing.
2.21.2012
AIA 25 YEAR AWARD>FRANK GEHRY.
The American Institute of Architects has announced the winner of its 2012 25 Year Award. The Gehry Residence, the longtime home of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, has been recognized for its contribution to design history and its continuing importance as an architectural touchstone over two decades since its construction.
Honored on its completion by, among others, The New York Times‘ Paul Goldberger, the Gehry House exudes the irreverent, DIY spirit of the designer during the early phase of his career. Humble materials like wooden 2X4′s and chain-link fencing wind in a series of seemingly arbitrary configurations around the shell of a conventional suburban house. As the AIA noted in its commendation, “The exposed structure, chaotic fusion of disparate materials, and aggressive juxtaposition of old and new communicate a sense of real-time formal evolution and conflict.”
Though doubtless causing some consternation among its neighbors (one of whom is rumored to have shot a bullet through a window), the house instantly caught the attention of the architecture world. In 1988, it was included by Philip Johnson in the Museum of Modern Art’s Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition, helping to launch Gehry into the starchitectural stratosphere.
The architect will receive the award at the AIA’s National Convention in May of this year.
*images Tim Street-Porter//text DesignWire
When i lived in LA i would often make a day of finding all the amazing homes and buildings that display rather unusual architecture. Frank Gehry's home in Santa Monica was one of the more frequented. It has changed form quite a bit since he orignialy moved in...and what an interesting form it has become.
California was where i became so sure i was destined to be apart of the design world. Having a plethora of world renown architects and designers out your door was so comforting...i felt there was never a day i couldn't easily be reminded, through lectures, classes, installations, openings, museums, buildings & homes...why i chose this industry to be apart of my life's work.
Honored on its completion by, among others, The New York Times‘ Paul Goldberger, the Gehry House exudes the irreverent, DIY spirit of the designer during the early phase of his career. Humble materials like wooden 2X4′s and chain-link fencing wind in a series of seemingly arbitrary configurations around the shell of a conventional suburban house. As the AIA noted in its commendation, “The exposed structure, chaotic fusion of disparate materials, and aggressive juxtaposition of old and new communicate a sense of real-time formal evolution and conflict.”
Though doubtless causing some consternation among its neighbors (one of whom is rumored to have shot a bullet through a window), the house instantly caught the attention of the architecture world. In 1988, it was included by Philip Johnson in the Museum of Modern Art’s Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition, helping to launch Gehry into the starchitectural stratosphere.
The architect will receive the award at the AIA’s National Convention in May of this year.
*images Tim Street-Porter//text DesignWire
When i lived in LA i would often make a day of finding all the amazing homes and buildings that display rather unusual architecture. Frank Gehry's home in Santa Monica was one of the more frequented. It has changed form quite a bit since he orignialy moved in...and what an interesting form it has become.
California was where i became so sure i was destined to be apart of the design world. Having a plethora of world renown architects and designers out your door was so comforting...i felt there was never a day i couldn't easily be reminded, through lectures, classes, installations, openings, museums, buildings & homes...why i chose this industry to be apart of my life's work.
2.17.2012
CONSTANT CHALLENGE 4 POSITIVE CHANGE
The HANDBOOK on Inspiration.
Living in HAWAII, the most remote island chain, poses amazing challenges... and if you focus on the positive, life reveals an abundance of creative energy.
All designers seek out different avenues to stimulate the next project. i like to chose my specific location to ultimately be the muse for all projects. currently living on the island of MAUI, i find it hard to harness my inspirational moments. sometimes it is almost paralyzing; the amount of ideas or potential projects are simply overwhelming. lately i decided to dig a bit deeper and focus more time in each area of interest or inspiration....thus sparking the need to share.
Lesson #1: ALL PROJECTS ARE UNIQUE.
Especially in HAWAII or where ever you are...take in the community and culture, natural and man-made, to shape your project.
Accepting the changes on a daily level and then seeing the positive within all major or minor challenges gives you an undeniable sense of accomplishment.
2.09.2012
NO'HU by PANORAMA(side project of CPD-ID) product updates///
NO'HU by PANORAMA
especially more durable & styley than the average picnic frock///hand made on MAUI with SUNBRELLA 18oz fabric & custom designed hawaiian tapa-inspired 12oz canvas. TWO weatherproof pockets to hold your phonez or whateverz.
2.07.2012
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