Had I gone somewhere warm and exotic for New Years, I would’ve surely packed a bunch of cool, gypset style Valdez accessories! I absolutely love the brand created by Gabriela Goldbaum who graduated from Istituto Marangoni in Milan for Fashion Design. She later moved to New York and interned for designers Zac Posen and Carlos Campos. Gabriela has always been a fan of Ecuadorian crafts so she began exploring all Read More ...
Thank you Serine Dalloul, our Middle East Contributing Editor for this great introduction. Beirut-born designer Racha El Abbas was raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. At the age of eighteen she moved to Beirut to join the School of Architecture & Design at the American University of Beirut as an architecture student only to find herself drawn to the world of Graphic Design, experimenting with media and discovering new graphic Read More ...
Margherita (Ghita) Abi-Hanna was born in Kuwait in 1979 where she spent the first ten years of her life. In 1990, her family moved back to Lebanon. She continued her high school education at the Lycée Franco-Libanais and then completed her studies at the American University of Beirut, obtaining a Bachelor in Graphic Design with distinction in 2002. After graduating, she worked as a senior graphic designer with local design and Read More ...
Lithuanian born Laura Theiss graduated from the prestigious Central Saint Martins college in 2009 and is now based in London.Her passion for knitwear came rather early on when she was a child. She compares it to her mother’s tongue;“It is sort of a language embedded in my DNA and I find it easy to express myself through it” The new collection does not disappoint and her unique and graphic design Read More ...
“Free Ai Weiwei” Artist and activist, Ai Weiwei has been missing since April 3, where he was detained by the Chinese authorities in Beijing. Germany, France and the UK have officially expressed concern about his detainment. In Denmark, Ai Weiwei’s art is most famous for the installation that replaced The Little Mermaid while she was in Shanghai for Expo 2010. Ai Weiwei currently exhibits at Gl. Holtegaard and at Louisiana Read More ...
Gorgeous Bohemian Jewelry Collection Julie Rofman’s background is in art, painting and sculpture but occasionally she’d pick up a hobby that is somewhat of a break from this type of creating, and during one of these breaks she picked up a bead loom, about ten years ago. At the time she was drawn to the preciseness of it and the availability of a wide range of bead colors to choose Read More ...
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Matt Pyke is one of the most innovative motion-artists of his time. His approach can be described as both scientific and holistic, as the name of his design studio, Universal Everything, suggests. The striking variety of his artistic practices (product, print, branded art, interactive design, shop installations), has positioned him as a global contributor in the diffusion and popularization of motion design. He has collaborated with Chanel, MTV and Apple. Like many Read More ...
© Luis Sevillano Jose Tomas en las ventas.San Isidro 2008 El Salvawhore is a visual diary I came across recently created to inspire. Carlos Torretta was born in Madrid, Spain and moved to the US to go to boarding school. His father, Roberto Torretta, is a known and influential fashion designer in Spain so fashion and artistic influence were always in his blood. He is now constantly surrounded by fashion Read More ...
