Design Milk

Thank you for all of the concern and supports you've gave on my last post. It means a lot. Really. Things have finally become better. And I can laugh so hard again :D

Anyway, do you remember when I told you about this superb website about art and design named Behance? Now, I wanna tell you about another website that's just as cool as it. It is.... Design Milk. It's run by Jaime Derringer. This website provides the things you'll love in Architecture, Art, Home Furnishings, Interior Design, Style & Fashion and Technology world. Well, words can't express art and design as good as seeing the art and design itself (especially because I'm so not good in it), so, let me show you some of the the awesome things from that website.

Harry Potter and Sleeping Beauty from Lissy Laricchia's Get Back in Your Books set. For more info, click here

Frontyard Art Mailboxes. Click here for details.

The Whole Story by Debra Folz. For details click here

Debbie Tea's artworks. Ssst, she is from Bali, Indonesia :D for more info, click here.

STRESSSSSS by Annie Kim, a student at Otis College of Art and Design. If you like it, click here or just go straight to her society6 profile.

Zella Brown's artwork. Click here for more info or here to go to her/his (sorry, i don't know) website

Like what you see? Don't forget to check out Design Milk for more cool art and design things. Or, if you want to find some cool modern designs for the modern dogs just click its sister website, Dog Milk :)

Paper Sculpture

The art of folding papers is getting more and more popular each day. According to Jae Wagoner, Paper Sclupture is one of the most highly successful forms of advertising illustration. When it is appropriately used the viewer response is unsurpassed. People are fascinated with this art form. They do not know how the work is done, and it captures their attention in a way that regular illustration or photography cannot accomplish. One of his clients had some marketing research done to compare paper sculpture to illustration and photography. Based on the result, the reader rate of retention for paper sculpture was 25% higher than illustration and even 30% higher than photography. In fact, they found that readers even remembered the name of the product being advertised in conjunction with the paper sculpture.

I just discovered this sculptor named Jeff Nishinaka. He is amazing. He studied illustration at The Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, where he first experimented with paper art and sculptures. He graduated from there and has created sculptures ever since. Here are some of the lovely sculptures he's created.

Bloomingdale's commercial

Childrens Museum, New York

Colorado Hospital

The Lion King

US Postal Service

Barbie commercial

Knorr Cheddar Pasta Commercial

What do you think? His artworks are amazing right? For more about his infos and artworks, just go to his website. :)

Pencil vs Camera

I'm going to be 17 on the last day of this month. Yep, 17. You know in some country people say you turn into an adult when you're 16. Or maybe 18. But in my country, it happens when you turn 17. I'll get an ID card. So yes, it's kinda big for me. I don't think I'm ready yet. *sigh*

Anyway, let's move on. Do you know Ben Heine? I won't blame you if you don't. Me myself just happened to know him this afternoon when I was browsing deviantArt. He is an amazing artist. He has so many lovely artworks on his deviantArt gallery, but my favorite is on his Penvil vs Camera album. It's so cool I can't even describe it. So you might have to see it yourself. Here are some of the pictures in that album.

See? Those are amazing, right? So, come on. go to his deviantArt gallery. Or maybe to his website. It's worth it :)

The Book of Tomorrow

Have you ever read a book, that by the time you finished it, you feel like there's a part of you that has changed? That you finally realized this was the right book for you? Well I have. I just finished it this morning. This book titled The Book of Tomorrow.

"I think that most people go into bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. It’s as though they already know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time."

This book is about an almost-17 years old girl named Tamara who was used to get everything she ever wanted since his dad was a very successful man. But then her dad died and she had to lose everything. Her mother and she moved to her uncle's house, Arthur in the country. Her uncle's wife, Rosaleen, was a very odd woman who at the end, you'll know that she'd been hiding so many secrets.

Tamara was very bored. She didn't have any friends there. But then she found this book, a locked and old book, from the traveling library. She couldn't open it, until she met Sister Ignatius, a friendly 70 years old nun, who could unlock the key. And what she found on that book, was a diary of 'Tamara of Tomorrow'. The book told her some things that will happen on the day after she read it. And there her world changed.

Not to spoil the ending but that part was very unpredictable. She finally found out the truth about herself and her family. And she finally realized, that she was actually a lucky girl.

"All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, there are gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be."

This is a highly recommended book about how tomorrow can change today. So now, can you please go to a bookstore near you, take this book, then bring to the cashier and pay it? ;)

Yes,Typography IS Cool

Click the images to enlarge them. And seriously, you HAVE to enlarge them :p

Advertising Agency: Contrapunto BBDO, Barcelona, Spain
Creative Directors: Tomas Oliva, Carlos De Javier
Art Director: Lucas Jatobá
Copywriter: Emma Piquer
Illustrator: Serge Seidlitz (H), Diego Medina (D), Open the Door (Y)
Published: January 2009

When you lose a leg, you don't just lose a leg.

Advertising Agency: Publicis Mojo Auckland, New Zealand
Executive Creative Director: Nick Worthington
Art Directors: Lorenz Perry, Derrick Kim
Copywriter: Karl Fleet

We wanted to make it clear that eco-friendly fashion is not only good for earth, but also very stylish.

Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG Chicago, IL, USA
Creative Director: Steffan Postaer
Art Director: Rei Young
Copywriters: Curtis Green, Regan Kline
Illustrator: Rei Young
Published: October 2009

If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter.

Agency: M&C Saatchi, Melbourne, Australia

I found all of these pictures here.

We Should Be Proud

Jadi begini. Pagi ini gue iseng-iseng buka website Program Studi Arsitektur ITB, terus gue download pdf kurikulumnya. Nah setelah gue liat-liat, gue makin pengen masuk SAPPK ITB. Terus, kan mahasiswa/i ITB harus ngambil 4 external elective courses and 2 internal elective courses. Setelah gue liat-liat, untuk yang internal gue pengen ngambil Real Estate and Housing and Settlement Design. Buat yang externalnya, pengen yang Principle of Interior Design, Interior Acoustics and Lighting, Interior Design Computer Simulation, and maybe Interior Design and Psychology. Tapi itu cuma bayangan gue sekarang sih. Ga tau deh ke depannya akan gimana haha. Pengen banget masuk SAPPK ITB! Apalagi karena sang idola jg mau masuk ITB... HA HA :p

Nah oke lah lanjut. Abis itu gue buka-buka link yang ada dari website Perancangan Arsitektur ITB kan, terus gue akhirnya ngeliat desain-desain bangunan di Indonesia yang ga kalah kerennya sama di luar negeri. Nih contohnya

Itu adalah foto sebuah Masjid bernama Al-Irsyad yang berada di Kota Baru Parahyangan, Jawa Barat. Keren kaan? Modern gitu. Rada ga kayak Masjid...

Then this, a Marine Research Center in Bali. Buat Tsunami gitu deh. Gue juga ga ngerti sih. Males baca artikelnya :p ahhaa

KEREN BANGET GA SIIIH? Menurut gue sih super kereeen ahhaha. Maaf norak. Tapi ya keliatan kan bangunan di Indonesia juga keren-keren. Ya kita harus banggalah! ;)

Nah, kalo mau liat yang lain lagi, klik aja ini atau bisa buka www.archdaily.com

Selamat berselancar di dunia maya! ;)

Should Have, Would Have, Could Have

I copy it from Averina's blog. I think this is a pretty-nice-sad-good story and I want to share it with you! :')

10th grade
As I sat there in English class, I stared at the girl next to me. She was my so called “best friend”. I stared at her long, silky hair, and wished she was mine. But she didn’t notice me like that, and I knew it. After class, she walked up to me and asked me for the notes she had missed the day before and handed them to her. She said “thanks” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I wanted to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.

11th grade
The phone rang. On the other end, it was her. She was in tears, mumbling on and on about how her love had broke her heart. She asked me to come over because she didn’t want to be alone, so I did. As I sat next to her on the sofa, I stared at her soft eyes, wishing she was mine. After 2 hours, one Drew Barrymore movie, and three bags of chips, she decided to go to sleep. She looked at me, said “thanks” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.

Senior year
The day before prom she walked to my locker. My date is sick” she said; he’s not going to go well, I didn’t have a date, and in 7th grade, we made a promise that if neither of us had dates, we would go together just as “best friends”. So we did. Prom night, after everything was over, I was standing at her front door step. I stared at her as she smiled at me and stared at me with her crystal eyes. I want her to be mine, but she doesn't think of me like that, and I know it. Then she said “I had the best time, thanks!” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.

Graduation Day
A day passed, then a week, then a month. Before I could blink, it was graduation day. I watched as her perfect body floated like an angel up on stage to get her diploma. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn’t notice me like that, and I knew it. Before everyone went home, she came to me in her smock and hat, and cried as I hugged her. Then she lifted her head from my shoulder and said, “you’re my best friend, thanks” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.

A Few Years Later
Now I sit in the pews of the church. That girl is getting married now. I watched her say “I do” and drive off to her new life, married to another man. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn’t see me like that, and I knew it. But before she drove away, she came to me and said “you came!”. She said “thanks” and kissed me on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.

Funeral
Years passed, I looked down at the coffin of a girl who used to be my “best friend”. At the service, they read a diary entry she had wrote in her high school years. This is what it read: I stare at him wishing he was mine, but he doesn’t notice me like that, and I know it. I want to tell him, I want him to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love him but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why. I wish he would tell me he loved me! `I wish I did too…` I thought to my self, and I cried.

The Love of a Father

Found it on a blog (lupa linknya) and I really really like this post. It's about the love of a father. Just read it to know how good this article is.

'Biasanya, bagi seorang anak perempuan yang sudah dewasa, yang sedang bekerja diperantauan, yang ikut suaminya merantau di luar kota atau luar negeri, yang sedang bersekolah atau kuliah jauh dari kedua orang tuanya. Akan sering merasa kangen sekali dengan Mama/Ibunya.

Lalu bagaimana dengan Papa/ayah?

Mungkin karena Mama lebih sering menelepon untuk menanyakan keadaanmu setiap hari, tapi tahukah kamu, jika ternyata Papa-lah yang mengingatkan Mama untuk menelponmu?