Trick Art Exhibition

A week ago, I went to Trick Art Japan Exhibition at Grand Indonesia. This event is held by Trimitra Events. According to their website, Trick Art is a form of art interpretation using optical illusion. With the perfect color blending, perspective, and lightning techniques, amazing 3D effects are emerged from a flat painting that bring the painting to life.

I went to the exhibition with two friends of mine, Alida and Firyal, plus Alida's sister named Dinda.  I know I'm kinda late. It has already been opened since last December and will be closed on February 3rd, but well, late is better than never right? Haha. I'm not gonna talk much because the photos we took there will probably talk better than I do :p So... here it goes.

Can you see the optical illusion? Well we surely can hahaha. Just to remind all of you who want to go here, don't forget to bring a high quality camera. Unfortunately, we didn't bring one, silly us. We also didn't stay there for a long time because we still had something else to do and it made us only took a few pictures while actually there are still a lot of other artworks we could explore. Yet still, we didn't regret going since we had such a good time there :)

For more information about this exhibition, go to their website here.

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 :)

The Dean of Decorator

Don't forget to check out my first ever guest post at Susanne's blog, Kegle99, here. Hope you like it :)

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A few months ago, I bought a book about interior decoration. On the first chapter, I found a quote by someone named Billy Baldwin. It was this

And I suddenly felt in love with that. I mean, it’s totally true right? So I was curious, who is this Billy Baldwin? Then I googled ‘Billy Baldwin’ and all I found is about an actor whose name is just the same.

But then, a couple days ago, I was trying to find some interior design quotes, and I found many lovely quotes that were from the same person, Mr. Billy Baldwin. Obviously, he’s well known in interior design industry. I got even more curious and I googled ‘Billy Baldwin interior designer’, then finally, I found some infos about him.

Billy Baldwin (1903-1984) was a very famous American interior designer/decorator in 20th century. He was at once a classicist and a modernist. He is the man who gave us the slipper chair and brass bookcase.

His style is elegant, simple, and practical. This style became defined as American style. Every spaces he decorated were both beautiful and comfortable. He once said ‘Interior Design is the art of arranging beautiful things, comfortably’. He designed his rooms a long time ago, but they’re still loved. I think we can conclude that his designs are timeless.

He believed that a room should have a personal connection with the owner, that’s why he liked to keep some old furnitures of the owner . He didn’t decorate a room with some furnitures just because those furnitures are beautiful, but because his clients and him do love it. He said ‘Be faithful to your own taste because nothing you really like is ever out of style.’ And also ‘Stick to the things you really love. An honest room is always up to date.’

I’ve mentioned some of the lovely quotes from Mr. Baldwin, now let me tell you a quote about him. This is from Adam Lewis, the author of ‘Billy Baldwin : The Great American Decorator”. And it’s...

‘Billy Baldwin did for decorating what Chanel did for fashion.’

ps : I really need an inspiration to finish my work right now. Hope it will come to me soon!

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 :)

Behance

Sorry for the long gap between this post and the previous one. Well, it actually happens often but this time, I really feel bad because Elis Smirnoff from love me, Jaded said "you ought to blog more often woman!!!". So so sorry. But I promise, if I do have spare time, I will def post something here.

Anyway, yesterday me and my friends joined IDS (International Design School) High Year Book Competition #2.

Too bad we didn't win. But well, it's okay, it really got me to think about my school year book more. So while we were waiting for the relults, we went to Starbucks because we actually wanted to use its free wifi and searched for some cover ideas. We ended up finding so many cool graphic designs, and I want to share some of them with you guys here

Letterform for the Ephemeral by Amandine Alessandra. This is so cool right?

Write a Bike by Juri Zaech. Well I now, it is not year book cover material (mostly pictures I post here are not either), but it's still cute, right?



Type Treat by Alex Beltechi. This one looks so... um delicious hahahha



Super Happy Times by Jordan Metcalf. If only I can draw like these.

Well to be honest, there are still many many cool designs I found, but I think if I keep on posting it, it will take you too long to open my page. So, in case you are interested, you can find this kind of design here. Hope you like it :)

P.S : Thank you so much for your supports on my last post. I feel really glad :D

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.