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tessa edwards

 obviously consistency isn't a strong point.
Here we go AGAIN!

I just found about Tessa Edwards.

She has some pretty cool work.. from journal work to finished product! Reminds me that I must try harder to put more consistent effort into things.. geez.. Anyway, enough about me, check out her site http://tessaedwardsworks.tumblr.com/

words

Isn't it odd... and perhaps fitting, that the word 'magniloquent' is rather magniloquent itself?
It does make me feel slightly pretentious but I do love florid language.

let technology inform design

Incredible video and article about 3d printing in the NY times.

If only i could...

 afford Visionaire's Alexander McQueen edition.
I'm a sucker for poetic touches and this one wrenches the heart like no other.
Images inspired by McQueen that, when planted and nourished turn into a bed of wildflowers... The idea itself is just incredible (Personally, I would wish for a flowering tree  - not for a long long long time please, but anyway...) and a poignant reminder that death begets life, life begets death and so the cycle continues, the living a memorial to those who lived.

From QS

Postcards from Paris - Lacroix

Christian Lacroix, known for his deliciously extravagant haute-couture ladies wear - dripping with embroidery and lace, is also a highly regarded illustrator.
What excites me is the way that he uses modern technology to a traditional effect, as seen in these postcards picked up at the Lacroix exhibition at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in 2008. Using a program such as illustrator or photoshop he has 'painted' these figures in a freehand style that one might ordinarily create manually with ink pen and watercolour. The lively, loose illustrations go against the grain of regular digital illustration as they do not aspire to perfection or tidiness, but take advantage of the crazy  unpredictability of mouse and digital brushes.

Postcards purchased at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.
Want more? Check out the book cover for the Christian Lacroix tome @ Polyvore
and for a little bit more info on designers' personal sketches - this article @ nymag.com

looooove

Organise

 This is what I did today:

Reorganise my past, filing trips, memories, tickets, postcards and assorted scraps according to place and date.

I think this may mean a new start for my blog. I was starting to find the way in which I was blogging to be unnatural and tedious. So here's to a new start - curiosities from everyday life. 

#1. 

From my time in Strasbourg, the 'centre of Europe' and stronghold of the EU parliament,  a town which for me is filled with brilliant sunlit memories which seeps through every crack and corner of my mind. 

From the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain - for their Art is Arp exhibition (dedicated to one of the most renown dada families  - the Arp family). 

This delightful poem, printed on the back of the brochure is at first apparently simple, then amusing, confusing and whimsical... it is also beautifully clean and clear in design. 

Configuration Strasbourgeoise

je suis né dans la nature.

je suis né à strasbourg.

je suis né dans un nuage.

je suis né dans une pompe.

je suis né dans une robe. 

j'ai quatre natures.

ja'i deux choses.

j'ai cing sens. 

sens et non-sens. 

nature est sans-sens. 

place à la nature. 

la nature est un aigle blanc. 

place dada à la nature dada.

je me modèle un livre à cinq boutons. 

le tour de force du sculpteur est une sombre bêtise.

extrait 1931

My translation : 

Strasbourg Configuration

I was born in nature.

I was born in a cloud.

I was born in a pump.

i was born in a dress.

i have four natures.

I have two things.

sense and non-sense

nature is without sense.

space to nature.

Nature is a white eagle.

dada place to dada nature.

i mould myself a book with five buds (my note: could also be buttons).

the tour de force of a sculptor is a sombre foolishness.