Oktouveture

Wooden Furniture

Over the reading week, we were asked to find a piece of wooden furniture that i can transform. The furniture has to be wood so it would be easier for us to disassemble. The furniture shouldn't be massive because I should be able to carry it on the tube.

So on Thursday the 9th November 2010 my friend and I went and walk around Angle to look for dumped or second hand furniture. Wasn't easy and some cost more then £10! The day was windy and cold. It was terrable luckly it didnt rain. We went to this really quiet neighborhood and I saw some shelves beside the street not owned by someone! I was about to take some since its a furniture wood and can be carried around. When I was about to take them an African British man came to us and said in a low voice 'you girls takin' my scarp I'll cut you' He came closer to us and have us both around his arms! I quickly run but stop to realize my friend was not running with me. That man walked a way and laugh at us. It was really weird but scary at the same time. I was so shocked it was terrible remembering that but thanks God we both are good and safe. We went to one antique second hand shop and I got my self a big broken wooden chair for £10. Not bad.

Fashion Love

Was browsing youtube and look what I found;

watch till the end!

Lately I've been admiring fashion today because its not just pretty and beautiful but I think fashion is so much more than that! Its about concept, ideas and innovation. Hussein Chalayan is between fashion and technology he actually combines both which I think is pretty cool. He become the 'odd one out' but he become unique and different then others.

I was very pleased with my assessment 'Hana's performance throughout the course has been excellent and she has demonstrated through commitment.' Yeyeyeyeye! Very sorry with my late posts since the 3D spatial specialism has been very busy over the week. After my assessment week we all got reading week. I went to the barbican art gallery to see the Future Beauty: 30 years of japanese Fashion exhibition to start off.

This exhibition was a survey of avant-garde japanese fashion from early 1980's to now. Issey Miyake, Rei Kawabuko and Yohji Yamamoto redifined very basis of fashion. They take the simplicity of fabric to form expression, they turned fashion into art.

Works by Miyake, Kawakubo and Yamamoto are presented alongside also including Junya Watanabe, Jun Takahashi, Tao Kurihara and Mintdesigns.

Photograph courtesy Lyndon Douglas/Barbican Art Gallery

Junya Watanabe

Yohji Yamamoto

Issey Miyake's APOC series

Tao Kurihara SS08

close up

Yohji Yamamoto

Hiraoki Ohya

Issey Miyake Polygon series

Rei Kawakubo

Mintdesigns

Tao Kurihara

I really enjoyed the exhibition didn't realize I spend three hours inside. I was glad i went and now I see fashion in a different way.

xoxo

Two months ago

This is maybe to long to track back but I just want to put this in my blog as a documentation for my self. Around two months ago I went to see the London Design and the Anti Design festival. There are amazing out of the box ideas. Humorous as well.

Lamps

Standing lamp

Anti Design Festival

Colorful! Reminds me of ipods.

hanging lamp?

These products are displayed in tiny unseen galleries around red church street! Its a really good place to visit!

We also went to Hyde park to see some art exhibition in the serpentine gallery. Unfortunatly the gallery was close but we see this red pavilion instead.

The "symphony of reds" or "pavilion of the red sun" is design by a renowned French architect Jean Nouvel. The temporary structure is a public space, a cafe and an auditorium.

"Nouvel said he liked the surprise of finding the bright red pavilion - which echoes the red of England's iconic phone booths, letter boxes and London buses - among the green grass and trees of the royal park.

"The red for me was the idea of something very strong, energetic and optimistic and also complementary because the green, you can see that around," he said at the launch of the pavilion, which opens to the public on Saturday.

He imagined people spotting the building "through the trees and you think what is this, it's a circus?"." - written in the independent.co.uk