Common Roots - Design Map of Central Europe

Hi,

I want to tell you today how you can get inspired from exhibitions.
The design museum in Holon, Israel has brought a very interesting exhibition of industrial design in Central Europe.

"The identity of Central European design is as complex and ambiguous as the identity of the region itself.
Over the past century, this part of the world has experienced the rise and fall of radically different political orders, while its borders have been repeatedly redrawn.

In this historical context, design cannot be examined in terms of national categories, but must rather be studied in relation to the identities of individual designers, and to the experiences and cultural affiliations that characterize this region as a whole.

As this exhibition reveals, the individual stories of the participating designers are shaped by remarkable similarities and simultaneous developments. Despite their linguistic and national differences and the geographical distance that separate them from one another, they engage with the same concerns and questions, are inspired by the same sources, and attempt to come to terms with the same past historical events.

The network of relationships created between these designers does not overlap with existing political borderlines, but rather represents a new cultural map that will undoubtedly continue to connect the different parts of this region in the coming generations."

As you all know designers need to get inspired from color combination, shapes and structure.
When I'm getting into an exhibition I'm taking pictures of all the things that I found out as a interesting design so I can get inspired when I need to design something.

Design your world.
Shir

Photography

Hi,

I found out as a graphic designer that photography can make you really inspired.
When I need to design websites or applications I'm not once found myself uninspired from all kind of different reasons.
To get myself inspired I'm going out and start to take photos that help me get inspiration for colors, structure, textures and even sounds that can take my website to all another level.

Sometimes I love to take the color out of my photos and make them in black and white,
that way you can look at the angles of the picture and the textures much closer.

Photography is really one of the best ways to be inspire from the nature and the places that surround you.

One of my favorite places to take photos is a place called Aum Jony. This place is in kibutz Degania A, Israel. When I get there the first thing that I do is to breathe the air in that place, because of the mountains that surrounds the place when the sun is going down there is a strong wind that coming down to the valley.

After a walk around the area of Aum Jony you can see a beautiful sight that looks like that...

I hope I inspired you to go out and take pictures yourself or just to take a walk :)

Design your life.
Shir

Mini Art, "Tiny worlds, great magic!"

Hi,

I want to tell you today about an exhibition called "Mini Art" that take place in Jafa, Israel until the 7/27/13.
This miniatures exhibition is a fascinating and exciting encounter with the miniature worlds of art and design, science and technology, archeology and collections, theater and animation.

The most famous in this kind of art is a sculpture called Willard Wigan.
Willard works shows sculptures inside the hole of a needle, see an example of his work:


To read more about his work: http://www.willard-wigan.com/

The mini art is a way to make the viewer get interested in art.

In the exhibition you can see sculptures inside a ring.

Models of known women like Dali wife Gala and Frida Kahlo.

Little rooms that represent different places from different cultures. 

And books that take the story out of them.

The exhibition bring you back into your childhood and makes you look at the models as a little child that wants to found out what's inside this mysterious world of mini art.

If you have the time go to this exhibition it is really amazing and unusual.
I hope you will enjoy as I enjoyed it.

Design your world.
Shir

Maus by Art Spiegelman

I just finished reading this book called Maus. If you are into comics books and history this is the book for you, but even if you don't like comics this is an amazing book. The book is telling the story of Vladek spiegelman a  holocaust survivor. Vladek spiegelman is Art father (the writer and comics artist of this book). The whole book is written by Art as his father telling him the story of  his survival .
There are parts in the story where Art giving us a blink to his relaionship with his father.
It is very intresting to see how an holocaust survivor stays with habbits that he adopted in the days of the war.
As you read the book you srart to forget that this is a comics book, the story takes you away. The drawing inside the book and the way he choose the animals in this book as people is in one word amazing.
In this book you can find a world where maus are the jewish people, the cats are the nazis, the polish people are pigs and the french are frogs.
In the end of the book there is a picture of Vladek from the end of the world war 2 and that picture brings you back to the real life because if until now you were in a world of animals now you see that the story is about real people and that the world can change so fast.
This book takes you to a rollercoster of emotions.
I recommend everybody to read this book, no matter where you came from.
You can see a few pages from the book attached.

Fairies and demons paintings.

I read a book not long ago about fairies and demons.  The book is about the world of fairies. I found out that people invented all kind of stories about fairies according to the place that they live. For example if the person were living next to a lake, he will invent a story about a Lake fairy (or this is a real story, no one can know). So after i read this book i decided to make a few drawings that shows a few characters from the book.
As i was drawing i started thinking about how designers can use this book as a design idea for a place. When i was on vacation in Barcelona, i went out one night to a bar that his concept was a forest of fairies. In this bar you can find trees as tables and even a hidden place where you can find waterfall with a few fairies around it.
You can see my drawings attached.

Design your life.
Shir

Art

As an artist I'm always trying to explore new ways of creating new artisric things.
I started to learn how to creat a models from  paper and glue.
I learned that you can do really big models and small ones just from recycling things that made  paper.

A few examples attached.

If you want to learn how to do it, askk me for the recipe.

welcome

Hi,

My name is Shir, welcome to my design project.
In my design project blog I'm trying to investigate the world of design.
I will post all kind of cool things connected with design,
it could be Industrial design, Graphic design and even Interior Design.
I hope you will enjoy my blog and you will find new and interesting things.

Design your life.
Shir