SHAREmyDesign shop

Hello everyone,

I decided to open a new store called "SHAREmyDesign".

The store create as a project called "SHAREmyDesign". 

"SHAREmyDesign" is a way of bringing my design to your home. All my designs created from a series of three posters that the common denominator between them is color. 

In my shop I'm selling series of trio posters that will change your space. All my posters created by me in graphical software as Photoshop and Illustrator and the photos were taken by me.

All you need to do after buying a series of posters is framing the posters and hang the series on the wall. I'm sure it will change your space completely.

You can see my designs in my shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/SHAREmyDesign

There are two sizes for the posters:
1. 18 X 24cm / 7 X 9 1/2" - this is a size of a frame without *Pasparto.
2. 12X17cm / 4 3/4 X 6 3/4" - this is a size for frames with *Pasparto.

All posters were printed on a 300gr. chromo paper.
The posters do not include framing.

Help me SHAREmyDesign.

Thank you
Shir

** Pasparto is used to create internal frame depth for an image framed or for protection
from adhering the poster to the glass. Pasparto is intended solely for photographs of paintings and posters framed in a frame with glass.

Street Art

Hi,

I want to tell you today about my biggest inspiration for design. From time to time I'm walking on the street and I'm taking pictures of street art and Graffiti. Some people will say that they are the same but it's not true.
There is a difference between Graffiti to Street Art.

The differences are:

1. Street Art is constructive, Graffiti Tagging is destructive.

2. Street Art adorns the urban landscape, Graffiti Tagging scars it and accelerates urban decay.

3. Street Art stretches your mind, Graffiti Tagging is a slap in your face.

4. Street Art is about the audience, Graffiti Tagging is about the tagger.

5. Street Art says "Have you thought about this?", Graffiti Tagging says "I tag, therefore I exist"

6. Street Art was done with a smile, Graffiti Tagging was done with a scowl.

7. Street Art takes skill, Graffiti Tagging takes balls.

The term Street art can include traditional graffiti artwork, sculpture, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheat-pasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, and street installations.

Artists have challenged art by situating it in non-art contexts. ‘Street’ artists do not aspire to change the definition of an artwork, but rather to question the existing environment with its own language. They attempt to have their work communicate with everyday people about socially relevant themes in ways that are informed by aesthetic values without being imprisoned by them.

Some people consider street art a crime; others consider it a form of art. It is a borderline issue.

Many street artists have earned international attention for their work and have shown their works in museums or galleries as well as on the street. It is also not uncommon for street artists to achieve commercial success doing graphics for other companies or starting their own merchandising lines. Other street artists have transitioned away from street art to traditional gallery and museum exhibitions.

One of the artist that i follow after his work in the streets of Tel Aviv known by the name Know Hope. 

His works are emotional mechanism. He takes situations from every day life and shows them with characters that has very emotional expression.  

Know Hope works

Zero Cent work

and mork street art works...

Design your world.

Shir.

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