Posted in color, Design, fabric, fashion, inspiration, tagged color, contemporary, Design, dolce & gabbana, fabric, fashion, inspiration, jewelry, laurie prophater, ornamental elements, polymer, polymer clay on January 19, 2018| Leave a Comment »
After a 10 month hiatus, it is time to focus on pattern, color, design and of course, a bit of whimsy now and then.
Why wait for the whimsy when Dolce & Gabbana provides us with a riot of color and pattern in the Queen of Hearts Collection. For more from this collection, look no further than the Elle online review of the Spring 2018 show.
Posted in art, color, Design, fashion, furniture, glass, inspiration, jewelry, tagged art, black & white, contemporary, Design, fashion, inspiration, interior design, joseph hoffman, laurie prophater, ornamental elements, polymer, polymer clay on October 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I stumbled across this glassware by Joseph Hoffman in a Wall Street Journal insert entitled…The Future of Everything. His background is fascinating, but the scope of his life’s work is amazing…furniture, glassware, architecture, jewelry etc.
“With an eye that favored strict geometric shapes, Josef Hoffmann was in many ways anticipatory of the cubist movement. His fondness for the square was so well-known that the architect and designer earned the nickname Quadrati-Hoffmann (Square Hoffman) among his peers.
Hoffmann was among the rare breed of designers who could make anything. Coming to prominence at the turn of the 20th century, the Austrian creative put his mark on everything from lounge chairs and silverware to a modernist sanatorium. Hoffmann undoubtedly owed much of his success to good company—working alongside artists like Koloman Moser and Gustav Klimt, the young Hoffmann founded the Vienna Secession, an organization of artists that held exhibitions of progressive work as a reaction to the prevailing conservatism of the art world.”
Posted in art, color, tagged color, contemporary, depression era art, Design, inspiration, laurie prophater, ornamental elements, polymer, polymer clay, stuart davis, wpa on September 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Recently, the Wall Street Journal’s Art Review featured a mural by Stuart Davis. “Swing Landscape”, one of a series of murals commissioned by the WPA, features the docks, houses and landscapes of Gloucester, Mass. “At some 7 by 14 feet, it explodes at us. The art historian Meyer Schapiro likened it to a “brass band.” It immediately established Davis as one of the most powerful of modern colorists.”
Stuart is considered “one of the century’s most accomplished muralists. And “Swing Landscape” (1938) is surely one of the greatest paintings of modern American art, a glorious summation of all Davis had been and was still to be.”
Posted in art, color, Design, inspiration, tagged art, color, contemporary, Design, giulio menossi, glass, inspiration, laurie prophater, mosaic, ornamental elements, polymer, polymer clay on August 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »
After many years of working with bits of glass, Giulio Menossi is still playing with heart and spirit. “His ouevre is characterized by elegant, sweeping structural arcs always emblazoned with color, color, color. There is a joie de vivre and playfulness here derived from slashes of color that look like they could have been made by crayons and his completely uncensored use of materials. Lego pieces snuggle up to pearls; smalti and marble provide the background for a bunch of twigs. What life! What fun!”
In this article from Mosaic Art Now, he describes his journey and what inspires him.
Posted in art, color, Design, fabric, fashion, inspiration, tagged art, color, contemporary, Design, fabric, fashion, gucci, inspiration, laurie prophater, ornamental elements, polymer, polymer clay on May 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Yikes!!! It has been almost two months since my last post. My excuse…well, travel, working at and for the Co-Op and…procrastination!!!
As an amends, I found the perfect ‘back to work’ featured photo. It doesn’t get any better than ants, snakes, butterflies, lady bugs and beetles on silk organdy. We can thank Gucci for this amazing combination. Scroll through the whole Pre-Fall 2016 collection for more ‘interesting’ design inspiration.
Posted in art, color, Design, inspiration, new, tagged art, color, contemporary, Design, Flowdecor, inspiration, interior design, laurie prophater, ornamental elements, polymer, polymer clay, Prestige Art on April 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »
While flipping through the pages of the High Point Accessories Preview book, metallics appear to be ‘THE’ surface for Spring 2016. I apologize for the quality of the photos. Most of the items are new and the items have not been published online.
The feature photo is an oil from Prestige Art. The reflective nature of the gold veining is not apparent in this photo, but I see translating design into a marbled polymer surface or even mokume gane. Love the tonal effect of the grays in contrast to the gold.
The trio of lamps from Flowdecor, features the metallics in a traditional greek key columnar shape, a sleek contemporary paired with acrylic and a glass & textural base.
Gold appears to dominate the metallic landscape this year, followed by bronze and then silver.
Posted in color, Design, furniture, inspiration, new, tagged color, contemporary, Design, high point furniture market, inspiration, interior design, laurie prophater, ornamental elements, polymer, polymer clay on March 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The next few posts will feature the colors, textures & trends from the Spring 2016 High Point Furniture Market. The preview books arrived yesterday and after a quick perusal, it appears this deep blue is ‘THE’ color. How to describe it…HMMM!!! The deeper blues in this beautiful agate are close, as is the background color of blueprints.
Posted in art, color, Design, inspiration, tagged color, contemporary, Design, inspiration, interior design, ornamental elements, polymer, polymer clay, sarah bagshaw on March 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Sarah Bagshaw’s work is informed by artists and designers working in a wide range of disciplines. That description applies to the underlying design process of many artists. We collect, study and ponder the world around us and then transform or translate those insights. Sarah Bagshaw “makes one-off pattern designs using handmade processes (drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and collage) combined with Photoshop. I use Photoshop in an experimental manner and love ‘happy accidents’.”
Posted in color, Design, fashion, inspiration, tagged color, Design, fabric, fashion, inspiration, laurie prophater, ornamental elements, pantone, pantone fall 2016, polymer, polymer clay on February 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »
It isn’t even Spring and I am already looking forward to Fall…at least the Pantone colors of Fall 2016. As you may know, I was not very excited by the Colors of 2016, Serenity & Rose Quartz.
From Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute: The desire for tranquility, strength, and optimism have inspired a Fall 2016 color palette that is led by the Blue family.
Along with anchoring earth tones, exuberant pops of vibrant colors also appear throughout the collections. Transcending gender, these unexpectedly vivacious colors in our Fall 2016 palette act as playful but structured departures from your more typical fall shades.
Blue skies represent constancy as they are always above us. Grays give a feeling of stability, Red tones invite confidence and warmth, while the hot Pinkish Purples and Spicy Mustard Yellows suggest a touch of the exotic.
My next project, translating these colors into the Kato color pallette.
Posted in color, Design, fashion, inspiration, tagged color, contemporary, Design, fashion, inspiration, laurie prophater, ornamental elements, polymer, polymer clay, salvatore ferragamo on February 9, 2016| Leave a Comment »
According to the March 2016 Town & Country, stripes were the dominant pattern in Spring Collections. This Salvatore Ferragamo Aileen purse is already a best seller…and Spring is a month away. BTW…more stripes in a chevron pattern on the Ferragamo home page.
Ornamental Elements 