Photography

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Alejandra Laviada

November 27, 2008 in Featured Artists | 2 comments

I was first attracted to Alejandra Laviada’s work becuase of the colours, then because of the unusual objects that were the colours and then … well I was hooked.

Look at all these great photographs:

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This is my favourite photograph (below):

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She “explores the shifting relationship between photography and sculpture, whereby ordinary objects are stripped of their traditional function and perceived differently. Each body of work is an attempt to record pieces of history that are simultaneously being erased and created, and reflect a city struggling to reconcile past and future histories”.

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I could not resist these chairs. The chair on the left-hand-side (below) is almost cute.

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I love the way Alejandra has made interesting and beautiful the things we would ordinarily have either thrown away or washed.

Clever advertising

November 5, 2008 in Interesting Finds | 4 comments

I love clever ideas, advertising and design. Sometimes it makes me smile and other times it makes me think - both are equally as good.

Here are some of my favourites:

I got carried away selecting my favourites….and these are not all of them! To see more of these and some other great advertising concepts visit the blog Just Creative Design.

Dylan Culhane

June 26, 2008 in Featured Artists, Inspiration | 3 comments

The other night at Pecha Kucha I was exposed to some great artists and creatives who live in and around Cape Town. Dylan Culhane was one of those that stood out from the rest and his photographic and wallpaper art really made an impression on me. Take a look at these photographic wallpapers and you will see what I am talking about.

Below: Olympus Pattern and detail.

Below: Tokyo Man-hole pattern and detail.

Dylan’s work is a result of experimentation to try and find new and interesting ways of seeing the world. As he describes it, his work “relies on a tension between the real and the imagined, blurring the boundaries between photography, painting, illustration and design”.

Below: Barbed wire fence pattern and detail.

What I love most about Dylan’s work is that his photographs (in the above examples at least) are of rather mundane everyday things. Barbed wire and towering buildings are not exactly the most beautiful thing you will see in a day, but he seen it for it’s potential. He has created art pieces that covers a whole wall and that is pleasing to the eye. He has taken the ordinary and made it extraordinary.

Somethings Blue

March 31, 2008 in Interesting Finds | 3 comments

A few of my favourite ‘blue’ finds on etsy:

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From top left in clockwise direction: Framed Pouch with middle divide which I love from Field of Roses. Handbound books/journals from Orangebeautiful (I am saving up for one of these). Print of an original photograph digitally mixed with painting called Fleur Violette by labokoff. Hand twsisted copper wire sitting red fox with bushy tail from Copper Creation. The Adorn Jewelry shop is an absolute treasure find with pendants such as the crow flies. Japanese Aizome print fabric by Karaku. The pattern is the traditional antique design of Japan and is beautiful. I wonder if it is dyed with real indigo??