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From my sketchbook: textile inspired

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Tags: collage, sketchbook, mixed media, textile, drawing

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28 avril 2009

IF: Theatre

Colour pencils on paper.An ornament from an ancient Greek theatre, for Illustration Friday .

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Tags: drawing, decoration, illustration friday, ornament, pencils

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28 avril 2009

Experiments with silk paper

I've been doing some experiments with silk papermaking at home. The basic materials are cocoon strippings (gummy silk), baking parchment, water and an iron. The process is pretty simple: Place a piece of parchment on your ironing board and spread the...

Posté par Laura Freire à 11:29 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: fiber, mixed media, paper, papermaking, silk, textile

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27 avril 2009

Little retro collages

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Tags: collage, retro

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26 avril 2009

Moodboard for the spiritual girl

This is another moodboard I made for a "client" - role played by my friend Elena- for my Interior Design course, describing her personality and taste. As a good Italian she loves sun, sea and food. She's very interested in buddhism and meditation, other...

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Tags: collage, moodboards, design, photography

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26 avril 2009

Moodboard for the dynamic girl

One of the exercises of my Interior Design course was to make a moodboard for a "client" -in this case a person of the course played the role of the client- describing her personality after a short interview with her. My client was a woman in her late...

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Tags: collage, moodboards, photograpy, design

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25 avril 2009

From the sketchbook to the press

I've talked about my interest on building sites and their geometry. This is a sketch about that theme I did for my etching course at Graphic Studio Dublin . You'll see birds too. That's another thing you discover when you start looking upwards. And this...

Posté par Laura Freire à 10:21 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: cities, construction, etching, print, sketchbook

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24 avril 2009

Extremely close and incredibly cute

(picture by me at Dublin Botanic Garden)

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Tags: animals, garden, nature, photography

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23 avril 2009

Street art reinvents itself

A few weeks ago I was walking in Milan next to a building site. This is a detail picture of the enclosure of the site. Interesting effect, isn't it? Builders place the timber boards, people paint on them, then they are taken down and put up in the next...

Posté par Laura Freire à 10:03 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: cities, composition, street art

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22 avril 2009

I like building sites

I had never paid special attention to building sites until I had one in front of my house in Milan. There use to be a row of old houses on the other side of the street and one day when I was walking round the corner I heard a great roar: they were knocking...

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Tags: architecture, memories, cities, photography

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22 avril 2009

The making of Akka's logo

Hello and welcome to Akka, my new blog. I’m still working on the design so consider everything as a work in progress.My name is Laura, 28, Spanish, living in Dublin since 2006. Before I lived in Milan for three years and in Prague for a short period....

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Tags: brand, graphic design, illustrator, logos, typography

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