Monthly Archives: August 2013

Quite often in the history of fashion, designers appropriated elements and motifs from Native American culture. Recent seasons also saw High Street retailers joining in, borrowing this trend, and unfortunately ending up exploiting this inspiration without showing any respect towards … Continue reading →

Design Flanders is not new to travelling exhibitions: last year, as a follow up to the "Je Suis Dada" event revolving around Surrealism in Flemish design, it launched "Tales of Heroes". The latter focused on design objects based on a … Continue reading →

Previous posts on this site analysed every now and then the connection between fashion and religion, two rather different things that throughout history found themselves linked together. While the Catholic Church often used its pomp and fast or its connections … Continue reading →

Haitian Vodou has direct roots in Africa as many deities in its pantheon have African precedents, even though their characters have been elaborated and altered over time through amalgamation with Amerindian and European divinities, including the saints of the Catholic … Continue reading →

Quite often visitors to an exhibition shrug off the temptation to buy the related catalogue as they feel it contains photographic material they will be able to see online for free. This is not the case with the catalague for … Continue reading →

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) is one of those figures who can't be easily pigeonholed into a category, but could be considered an artist, painter, sculptor, sound, music and costume designer, and choreographer. Dubuffet also coined in 1945 the term "art brut" ("raw … Continue reading →

The early decades of the 1900s were particularly intriguing fashion and style-wise. When the first silent films started being released, the glamorous life of the actors and actresses generated a new passion – stardom – that made many ordinary people … Continue reading →

When stuck for inspiration listen to the material you want to use for advice, architect Louis Kahn suggested his students. Yet, while this may seem like the most natural thing to do to genuinely grasp the essence of your designs, … Continue reading →

Spending an entire summer day tidying up your personal archive may be considered by some people as a tedious activity. But it can actually turn into a fun game if, while leafing through old magazines, you spot a few gems … Continue reading →

As readers of yesterday's post may guess, the following Processing sketch was inspired by Samia Halaby's kinetic paintings and by one of her latest works, "Cadmium Red" (2013; last image featured in yesterday's post). Enjoy! Member of the Boxxet Network of Blogs, … Continue reading →