Design Museum - Drawing Fashion

Drawing Fashion exhibition has on display the exceptional and extraordinary fashion illustrations of the 20th and 21st centuries, drawings and combinations from  international designers known around the worldwide, brands such as McQueen, Dior, Chanel, Vikroe & Rolf and Comme des Garons, the exhibition has got the exclusive drawings and skecthes you wouldn't been seen anyway else I could guarantee you that for definite.

As been a girl, and love shopping and been in to fashion this exhibition has made me love fashion even more.. :) The illustrations and drawings I have seen, I will have to say was amazing and incredible.

The exhibition demonstrates the style, passion, enthusiasm, and character the designers has put in to their illustration to fashion, combining the illustrations with art, but also raising the attraction of  elegance and appeal of glamour within their unique designs. With each design illustrating an different path way of sense of style, and reflecting it to the time of drawing, with drawings representing the time through Pop Art, Art Deco and Art Nouveau, allowing the viewer to understand the culture and spirit of the drawing at the time of the drawing.

Viewing the different style of drawings from different times, has shown me the changes that has occurred and how fashion now is displayed more abstract. Have to say it again great exhibition and inspiring in the ways of use of colour, paint, graphics and illustration. 

Images are uploaded from google images, as Photography was not permitted within the exhibition.

Design Museum - The Brit Insurance Designs Awards 2011

Great Designs, Inspiring, Creative, Simple but Genius, Wooow, Hmmmm - Great few hours spent in the Design Museum today viewing all the designs for the Brit Insurance Designs Awards, wondering which one will be the Design of the Year. From designs that made me say, that's such a ''clever idea'', to designs that made me say ''hmmm nice''

There was variety of designs from graphics, to transport, furniture to fashion on display from small scales to bigger displays. The designs were creative, some were simple, all designed for the future with beneficial aspects, and imaginative. 

Ladakh Commonealth Peace Pavilion and Classroom Initiative 

 UK Pavilion Shanghan Expo 2010

One piece that caught my eye and I did question if it was possible, but did see it was possible and has been built in a 1:1 scale in real life, I was pretty amazed of the material choose and the strength of the material. Would have loved to experience this in person especially the inside of the structure

Tape Installations - Architecture: Austria - Crostia

The continuous wrapping of the tape links to result in complex amorphous shapes reminiscent of growing organic forms developed. Up to 45km of tape went in to creating some parts of this structure, which can be experienced from inside a well as from out side. 

Fiat 500 MultiAir Engine

Sayl Task Chair

There was many designs to be viewed and to be inspired by. And also educational wise great way to learn new techniques, model structures - material uses, scale and colour use. Wish only there was more to view.. :)

AND THE WINNER OF... 

Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011

is...

PLUMEN LIGHTBLUB by Samuel Wilkinson 

It's amazing after viewing so many of the designs, and having few on mind that I believed will be the winner, I was pretty amazed the Plumen Light Bulb was the winner. To be really honest I didn't even think it would. This design was the last one I viewed within the exhibition on the day of my visit,. The light bulb does the same job of an normal light saving bulb, with using 80% lesser of it's energy and also durable for eight times more than an luminous light bulb.

'' Stephen Bayley, 2011 Jury Chair said of the winning entry ‘The Plumen light bulb is a good example of the ordinary thing done extraordinarily well, bringing a small measure of delight to an everyday product.’'

http://www.designsoftheyear.com/2011/03/15/plumen-lightbulb-wins-brit-insurance-design-of-the-year-2011/

I guess this shows that a design does not have to be over the top, or exaggerated an simple idea that has a twist and style with benefits can be a masterpiece. Relating this back to my own studies design simple, bold but clever designs that relates to the concept can be a success. But I guess that's always the case you will always start of with the simplest drawings and then later develop those simple design ideas adding more to it, but will always go back to the first drawing you have done and will go forward with that design idea with slight developments added to it. So always trust your first instinct, the first design idea that comes to your mind the minute you finish reading the brief/or design concept and be confident.

Sweden - Stockholm

The second we all got off the plane, it was freezing, and still snowing. Days before there was a snow storm in Stockholm, and when we arrived the whole country was covered in snow. I was prepared with an nice warm coat, an long thick scarf but one pair of gloves was not enough to keep my fingers warm. And this was only ten minutes of the plane.

As we took got on the coach and started making our way to the hostel, the view wasn't very appealing with every space of Stockholm was just white. To the Swedish it's all normal living, I did think if it was snow like that in London, no one would leave their homes, let alone drive.  As we got close to the city, where the snow was cleared at most places, and the land was now visible, the city was full of culture richness, historical buildings and new architectural buildings, with where ever you turn your head you see rivers and lakes. The city was full of culture, and art. The architecture within Stockholm are highly respected as well as the landscape. You wouldn't not see much modern architectural buildings as the history of the city is highly cherished and adored by it's people. Newly developments of buildings have strict regulations to be in certain height and form in order for it to fit in with the surrounding hostorical buildings and landscape. I only wished if it was summer to explore the city and enjoy it even more then I would. Stockholm is a city to visit and explore, it's a city with a old and new twist.

During our duration at Stockholm, I did experience the living there was short but nice, transport, food, culture, friendly people, historical areas and buildings.

Landscape areas we visited during our visit:

Stockholm City Hall - The city council decided and agreed to build a new city hall in 1907. For the new building an architectural design contest was held and within the first stage at the contest a range of design selections were chosen by Carl Westman, Ivar Tengbom, Carl Bergsten and Ragnar Ostberg.

 City Hall

SkogskyrkoGarden - The Woodland Cemetery - This place is breath taking an amazing with  an huge open space of landscape at the entrance with an free-standing scared stone cross. The Woodland Cemetery was built between 1919 and 1940 by the young architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. The architects intentions within their design was to use the natural surrounding landscape and create an peaceful and restful experience for it's visitors. There is several chapels within the woodland cemetery engaging with the natural surrounding, all the architectural buildings are symbolic and aspirational of the Swedish Architecture. The collaboration between the landscape and architecture compliment each other.

Entrance to the Cemetery

SkogskyrkoGarden has been inscribed on the World Heritage List of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Inscription on the List confirms the expectational universal value of cultural or natural site which deserves protection for the benefit of all humanity.