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December 8th, 2011
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone + Julia Pott
May 19th, 2011
Illustration for Atelier Love
Well if you’re here, most likely you don’t speak spanish… Such a pity, you can only look at the photos and illustrations of Atelier Love! A spin-off of online magazine Atelier, all about weddings, for couples who are scared of classical, impersonal weddings. A real pioneer on the subject in Spain,where most weddings are basically all the same.
Well if you only look at the illustrations that’s well worth it also, because this edition is featuring my birds and colour drops! Singing Ronette’s classic: be my be my be my be my babyyyy oh oh oh oh ...
Congratulations to the whole team, and see you next time!
May 11th, 2011
News, illustrations, tulips
¡Oooooh,I didn’t get the Thyssen museum project! But, I promise, I was this close! I got preselected with two other great, great works of my mates. Nevermind, I’m already thinking of something to make out of the collection and there’s also a big final project I have to focus on now.
More news: I got an email this morning from a magazine called Absenthe, which I didn’t remember at all, saying my submission was featured. Well I sent it in october, no wonder it was gone of my mind. Well here it is, Charlotte, Jarvis and Lily say hi.
More stuff: as I promised, I’ve been through all the cards I picked at Nómada Design Market and I’d like to tell you about two things:
One, Mei jewellery, combining metal and textile. What do you think? For me it’s really some fresh air.
And another one, a courageous french girl, what is she doing here? Like you didn’t know the crisis is worse here than in France. Same as Cécile, who also lives here and makes cute stuff. Besides, this girl makes textile design, just what I’m studying, so I was most interested and went to visit her blog. Quite amusing, with DIY tutorials and inspirations. I want to make those tulips. Best of all? The name: Arrête de rêver = Stop dreaming. Irony… like!
May 4th, 2011
Thyssen museum project
So. The final day is here, and I have my presentation of the masters proyect for Thyssen-Bornemisza museum shop. There you are all my stuff packed and ready to go in a while, when I have to set up a mini stand. I reinterpreted very freely the painting “The garden of Eden” by Jan Brueghel I; I loved it, full of little animals all around. There’s even a cat on the top of a tree. Or maybe it’s a lynx or some other animal, who knows…
I have really enjoyed making this project and have made things I’d definitely buy. Only one of the twenty students will see her designs produced and sold at the museum shop, along with a little tag with her name. Same as always, here’s my motto: expect nothing but give everything. This time I’m quite proud.
Fingers crossed, wish me luck!
March 21st, 2011
El Beso closed
El Beso, my dear english friends, was a lovely and loved shop in the center of Madrid, where I learnt my first little steps in the world of pattern, I went to parties, did my first solo show in Madrid and accidentally forgot a little framed drawing that I let there stay, happy and surrounded by jewellery and brooches.
They just closed though, with a nice little party where I was invited to draw on the windows. I had fun!
We were promised there will be a third edition of El Beso (well yes, I only knew the second), and I really believe there will be, because this girls can’t stop making new projects. I’ve been told the lovely vintage drawers have a new job now in the brand-new shop La Intrusa, which is just around the corner. Guess they didn’t feel like walking much, as they’re old.
I made these pictures of the results of the window decoration party, do I have to tell you which one is mine?
January 3rd, 2011
Season’s window decorations at Printemps Paris
My french host tells me that, as a kid, one of her favourite christmas traditions was the visit to the window shops of Printemps department store at Boulevard Haussman, in one of the fancy, magnificient areas of Paris – which are, say, a thousand. The main luxury fashion brands have at least one showcase at their disposal, although what my friend really wanted to see was the moving decoration: the right to fill several spaces with animated puppets is reserved to a different firm every year. This year was Lanvin’s turn, but, I’m telling you, it was massively crowded and I couldn’t get to make a decent photo.
As you may realize, christmas is like that: true glamour and kitsch, fifty-fifty. You might as well find a piece-of-art-dress with astonishing brocades or a doggy covered in pompoms. I made both pictures thinking of La Condesa, lover of imperial-decadent style and of our four-legged friends.
So I was looking at all this stuff with great curiosity when I stumbled upon this wonder. You know that I go nuts for anything that mixes art and fashion. Altough this is mixing art and dishes. And some unknown ancient gentleman. The artist who has decorated the sculptures is called Anne Brunet and needs a website – now! We need to see more of her work.
I recommend that you click on each of these photos to see them in detail. Do you think I could find some kit of ready-to-customize bust + markers at my local handicrafts store? I can picture it in my living room, already…
December 20th, 2010
Christmas stuff
I’m not the most christmasish person in the world, but I love making the e-card every year for the Think Tank I work for, Pour la Solidarité. We get along well: we don’t like clichés.
This year slogan’s is by Jérôme, and, honestly, I don’t get to understand it fully. He says it means something like “target solidarity”. By the way, Jérôme is one of these strange people who has the ability of taking good pictures. Jealousy.
For 2009 and 2008, I’m very proud to be able to say that I made up the slogan (as well as the image bien sûr).
For a 2010 full of solidarity
Everything goes better with a partner.
¡Happy holidays, parties, Santa Claus and hangovers!