design - *akka design*

7 mars 2010

Too late for wool?

These days you can feel the spring is round the corner, so it seemed a better idea to use cotton for my next weaving project. What looks like navy blue in the picture is actually a nice purple colour in reality, but I couldn't get it right with my camera....

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Tags: design, textile, creativity, craft, weaving, yarn, scarf

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8 juillet 2009

What time is it?

Made in Italy on the wall: Diamantini & Domeniconi

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Tags: design, decoration, interior design, products

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4 juillet 2009

Thinking origami #2: The Coot

More patterns developed from origami shapes. See what happened to the little boat here .

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Tags: illustrator, print, design, screenprinting, pattern, origami

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29 juin 2009

On Kumihimo experiments and creativity

Every time I start learning a new craft technique I always have the intention of beginning with the basics and following the instructions step by step to increase the difficulty of the projects. But I never get too far doing this. As soon as I can produce...

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Tags: design, creativity, craft, japanese, braidmaking, experiments, kumihimo

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14 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #3: A work in progress

As I mentioned in this post , in the latest screenprinting workshop at Liz Nilsson 's I had very ambitious project in mind, and this was the printing of a square tablecloth (160x160 cm) with a border of my own design (see planned layout in the last picture...

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Tags: print, design, textile, screenprinting, pattern, fabric, origami

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12 juin 2009

Thinking origami #1: The Boat

Let me introduce a series of posts where I'll present some of the patterns I've been creating lately. They are all based on origami shapes and are intended as ideas for future screenprints. The boat is one of my favourites and I really enjoyed playing...

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Tags: illustrator, print, design, screenprinting, pattern, origami

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11 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #2: Making holes

Some images of effects obtained with newspaper and a paper punch during the latest screenprinting workshop at Liz Nilsson 's studio.

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Tags: print, design, paper, textile, screenprinting, workshop

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10 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #1: the Japanese paper

You might wonder what I'm doing in the pictures above, and if you had asked me on the spot I would had told you 'I don't know!'I was again at Liz Nilsson 's studio for another wonderful 2-day screenprinting workshop and the stencil I have prepared for...

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Tags: print, design, paper, textile, screenprinting, workshop, japanese

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3 juin 2009

Art Fair at the RDS

A couple of weeks ago I visited the Interior Design and Art Fair at RDS Dublin . I came home with two artist in my mind. This is what I saw in the exhibition: Flying Souls and a Cross, 2009, gesso/oil on board, 30.5x28cm, by Fionnuala D'Arcy exhibiting...

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Tags: design, drawing, art, artists, exhibitions, painting, dublin

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9 mai 2009

Random screenprinting #3

This is another example of my experiments with screenprinting during Liz Nilsson 's workshop. In this case I put a piece of plastic lace under the fabric and then printed with green dye using an open screen.

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Tags: print, design, screenprinting, lace

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6 mai 2009

Random screeprinting #2

Another experiment from Liz Nilsson 's screenprinting workshop. I was trying to use in a different way the screen with circles I had prepared for this design, and somehow the mesh got blocked so I got these 'faulty' print with some not printed spots....

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Tags: print, design, textile, screenprinting

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4 mai 2009

Birds

One of the most interesting activities I've been doing this year was the screenprinting course at Liz Nilsson 's studio here in Dublin. The course consisted of six lessons and during this time the basics of screenprinting on textiles were explained, as...

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Tags: print, design, birds, screenprinting, pattern

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26 avril 2009

Moodboard for the spiritual girl

This is another moodboard I made for a "client" - role played by my friend Elena- for my Interior Design course, describing her personality and taste. As a good Italian she loves sun, sea and food. She's very interested in buddhism and meditation, other...

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Tags: collage, moodboards, design, photography

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26 avril 2009

Moodboard for the dynamic girl

One of the exercises of my Interior Design course was to make a moodboard for a "client" -in this case a person of the course played the role of the client- describing her personality after a short interview with her. My client was a woman in her late...

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Tags: collage, moodboards, photograpy, design

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