Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Design Year Book

Design Year Book



Nokia Lumia 800 Illuminate London's Skyline in 4D

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 04:56 PM PST



To celebrate the launch of Nokia new smartphone Lumia 800, Nokia is bringing together world renowned producer, deadmau5 and the world's leading 4D projection team for an unprecedented projection show on this November 28.

Plans are to put on a spectacular light show on the full length of the 120 meter building of London's Millbank Tower. The show will use the 800 windows of the skyscraper as the canvas for the spectacle accompanied by a live music performance. deadmau5 will be performing two new tracks created especially for the event.

The 30-minute show will be able to be viewed from both the north and south sides of the River Thames, and will also be broadcast live online on Nokia UK's Facebook page.

Known as a "4D" projection (a term the team made up to distinguish it from normal projections), the 4D team scanned the exterior of the tower using lasers, and built a 3D model of it accurate to within 5mm. They then create animations and map them exactly to the building. The Millbank Tower will be effectively blacking out to project images of it back onto the building.

Of course, the show will culminate with a giant mobile phone appearing to mark the launch of Nokia's Lumia 800- to signals a new dawn for the company.





+ Nokia

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Flipping Through Wuthering Heights....

stop motion,wuthering heights
I tried to make a stop motion gif, but I'd like to learn how to make my own using a program and try to animate my pics. :)
I took these pics on Nov.12th and finally had a chance to make a gif  and show you guys. :)
I def. want to make more, and I would looove to make a stop motion using my illustrations. :D
Think it would be fun, but at the same time frustrating. O.o


Alien,toy,figurine
My lil alien guy tried to escape my jewelry box while I was gone, but...I caught him in the act. hahhaha.
I just had to post this GIF as well. :)

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Thanks For Your Giving, Have a Happy One! :)




Photography by Anna (: 

Happy Thanksgiving Guuuys!!! 
Hope everybody had a good thanksgiving!

The highlight of my day, was talking on the phone with my best friend who lives miles and miles away, in the east coast. :/   I love my best friend, and I'm thankful for my best friend still being in my life and hope to be friends till we're old and wrinkly LOL! But I'm also thankful for my twin being in my life, my family, my other friends, all the positive things that happened this yr, this lil blog, and just whatever I have. :)

*How was your Thanksgiving?*

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Design Year Book

Design Year Book


Passive House by Architect Lieselotte Steurbaut

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 07:30 PM PST



The house for Belgium architect Lieselotte Steurbaut is a wooden house constructed in only 6 months, with a budget of 1.140 euro/m2 and a monthly gas and electricity bill of 10 euros. The house in every way is a fine example of green residential where energy efficiency, reducing ecological footprint is the priority.

Everywhere we heard & knew that constructing a green building will be more expensive than a conventional building. But the Passive House is an answer to the challenge of an 'economic house'.

Build on a small plot, this compact size, relatively close-looking cube house, which is perpendicular to the south from a big bite taken and windows provided, that act as the 'radiator' for the house. A timber frame, with ThermoWood wall paneling, wood joinery, and a complete interior finishing in OSB (Oriented strand board).

Reduced pipe lengths for ventilation, water, gas, electricity provides a simple technical installation. All rooms were place together to reduced the used on walls which leave plenty of free space for creativity and family gathering.





+ Lieselotte Steurbaut | ilovebelgium

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Design Year Book

Design Year Book


Bracelli, Muletas, and Cajones Lamp-Sculptures by Salvador Dali

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:00 PM PST



The year 2009 marked the 20th Anniversary of the death of this brilliant universal artist and Barcelona-based Bd wishes to add its special homage by producing a special limited edition of his fantastic furniture collection.

Since Dali never specified which materials he would want his furniture to be made from, the challenge for the Bd team was to balance the tastes of the painter and production viability. All the finishing's are based on black, with aged black patina on the casted brass, Black Marquina marble for the famous egg, darkened gold leaf and dyed lime wood satin in black for the upholstery and lingerie chiffon, also black for the lamp shades. Refined materials and handcrafted manufacturing to bring up to date a furniture collection thatBd has sold exclusively all over the world since the 90s, guaranteed by The Gala Salvador Dali Foundation responsible for the painter's rights. The black label collection comes to market in a limited edition of 105 pieces (the age of Dali in 2009).



When with Robert Descharnes we chose projects for furniture from the ideas with which Dali had filled his note pad for his work with Jean-Michel Frank, we had to imagine the colours which Salvador would have chosen to make his single-colour drawings, and we did soremembering the preferences and obsessions of the maestro (gold, Carmin Schiaparelli…). The furniture was really very much in Dali style, but difficult to combine in not absolutely surrealistic interiors. When we made a Leda chair with aged black patina for a special set-up and observed the enthusiastic reaction of the professionals, we were convinced that these crazy objects would look much less controversial in a decor if they were dyed black. From my extensive work with the Maestro I feel that this collection would meet his approval and I am absolutely sure that Gala would prefer it to the multicolour. Oscar Tusquets

Each piece is accompanied by the Certificate of the Dali Series.



Original Bracelli lamp at Clift hotel (San Francisco)


+ Bd

Monday, November 21, 2011

Design Year Book

Design Year Book


Vac from the Sea by Electrolux

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 05:30 PM PST



Initiated by Electrolux, Vac from the Sea is a project aiming at raising awareness about the immediate need for the world to take better care of plastics and support the heroes that do. Plastic is the main raw material when making a vacuum cleaner. From a sustainable business point of view, Electrolux relies on an increased global supply of recycled plastic.

The project will see a limited number of Electrolux vacuum cleaners to be made from marine plastic debris – harvested from the Pacific and other sites where the plastic problem is immense.Depending on the local plastic situation the gathering of plastics will vary – from diving among coral reefs, clean-ups closer to shore to scooping up plastic directly from the water surface. The vacuum cleaners that are to be produced from the material gathered will be put on display for the world, decision makers and consumers to see. 




+ Vac from the Sea

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Thread Show Videos


Anna & I looved this sunnies vendor!
Very cool and unique sunnies! :D



The Nail bar - Dipped Nails
Beautiful Bliss for the braided headband with the feathers :)


:)

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Wind Paintings by Bob Verschueren

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 07:58 AM PST



Artist Bob Verschueren 'painted' these Wind Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s on empty and desolate landscape with the help of wind.

He used crushed charcoal, iron oxide, chalk, terra verte, flour, yellow ochre, terre de Cassel, burnt and natural umber, which was then laid out in a linear motif on the land. Verschueren would wait for the wind to distribute the coloured pigments and materials over the land. The resulting work was a stunning collaboration between man and nature. The artwork usually only last a few hours, before the wind that created them likewise blows them away. 





+ I Love Belgium

Friday, November 18, 2011

Thread Show Style

 I looooved her outfit!!
I love the color palette of her outfit, a really nice sophisticated look, and she's pretty too. :)
I thought she looked great from head to toe!

 Sorry for the shaky picture :(
I loved her bag

Looooved her style!
I loved everything she was wearing, love her leather jacket and I love how she did her boots. :D
Very cool person too. :)


While looking around at the vendors, I spotted some shoppers with nice style and had to take pics of them :)
I wish I did more though. :/

The Thread Show 2011




Loooved her jewelries!!
Very fun, pretty and cute. 



The highlight of my day, giving the original drawing to Mel from Modanista Junkie. :D
I brought the drawing with me, just in case I saw her at the Trade show, so that she can have the original copy, it's hers, and I thought that she should have it. :D  
It was really cool to meet her and to see her in person, she's so sweet and so nice. :)

 I love the city, soo beautiful!
I can def. imagine myself living in a place like this, and looking out the window and into the city day/night 
L.A. LVE

Anna & I loved her headpiece
We looove her work, soo good!
 Looove all these necklaces!!! 



 Anna & I loved the necklace at the far left end






So beautiful, I looved the green color stones



I wanted to buy the Heart necklace, but the owner said, she's going to make a ring just like the necklace in a heart shape, and oh my god.....I was like, never mind, I want the heart shape ring instead! :D

 

I loooooved her awesome braided feathered headband! Very cool!!
She made it herself, Beautiful Bliss


Sorry that this picture came out really blurry :/
Loved the body Jewelry


And here are my nails being done by Dipped Nails
I chose the nail art on my ring fingers because I wanted something to represent me, and since I love art so much I picked that design. :D

Anna and I attended the Thread Show for the first time, and we loved it and had a good time! There was a lot of great talent amongst the jewelry artists, and Anna and I loved loots of the jewelry pieces! Some were beautiful, fun, cute and cool. :D There were also some clothes, and I got to meet the designer from the clothing line of Roja's :D! I had to tell him that I have been a fan of his clothes and used to follow him on myspace, lol. He laughed and said something along the lines of, "Thank you for following the line", he's a pretty cool designer. :)

At the Thread show event, I also got to meet a few blogger girls, which was AWESOME!! I finally got a chance to meet Mel from Modanista Junkie , Melissa  from The Key To Chic, and two other blogger girls that Anna complemented on their style , Teresa & Emily from The Style Map, and I also noticed Zoe from lookbook.nu . I wanted to say hi to her, but she was with her bf, and I just felt uncomfortable, so I just looked at her, lol.

Anna bought three items from the thread show :D. First item was a strange, odd and creepy copper ring of a face, second item was the Roja's Earthy colored long tee, and the third item was a Oval Druzy Agate earthy necklace by Love Tatum that matched with the Roja's tee :D
I didn't buy anything, which sucks, I wanted to buy a necklace from Bella Koi, but I couldn't make up my mind on what to buy! >.< All of her stuff are soo good! But I did get a feather extension in my hair, but the woman didn't place the feather extension good. Because the feather doesn't hang well, it sticks out! Not cool! >: |
And as you saw in the last pics, I got my nails done by Dipped Nails @ the Nail Bar, which I love soo much! The nail polish hasn't chipped away yet, yay! :D

I defiantly want to attend next yr's Thread Show and I like to say my final Thank You to Mel, for giving me a ticket for the show! :D