Paper flowers for the holidays

Paper Flowers for the Holidays
Originally uploaded by digika

These paper flowers are super easy and quick to make:

1. Cut out paper circles and fold them in 8 (like a pizza pie slices)
2. Create a decorative edge by rounding off the slice end
3. Stack the paper circles in layers and glue together

That's it! You can add a gemstone sticker in the middle to add some sparkle to your flowers. Use double-sided tape or glue to attach the flowers to gift wrap or cards.

Happy New Year!

Is this the most magical greeting card or what :) Happy Holidays to everyone out there, and Happy Holidays to me. It's been a productive year, with many learnings and changes, and for that I am grateful.

Hope that the new year will continue to be so, and that our endeavors take more solid shape as we advance.

Hugs,
digika

Our student film "Escape From the Hamster Wheel"

This was a group project at Billy Blue College of Design for "Digital Video Composition and Storytelling" class with Damian Blayney. 

Team members include:
+ Nitesh Asrani
+ Francois Hebert
+ Lina Hallberg
+ Alex Ball
+ Tatyana Temirbulatova
+ Danilo Toledo



We were given stock footage of the Billy Blue graduate exhibition, and the assignment was to produce a movie of 2 mins incorporating this footage.

The work involved writing the script, creating storyboards and shot lists, shooting our footage (of course!), cutting and editing. We also included a pre-movie animation, done by Alexander Ball, which introduced viewers to the story.

David Pidgeon "Geometry of Type" talk

I was fortunate to attend David's presentation "The Geometry of Type" on Monday (December 7, 2009) at the Australian Museum. Looking at David's work, I got many ideas for future projects about how to take an idea and simplify it to its essence. How to use simple shapes, lines and colour to communicate deep and complex concepts.

Event Summary
Keen to see the alphabet from a different angle? David Pidgeon, from Design By Pidgeon in Melbourne, looks at restricting the roman alphabet to strict geometries in an attempt to explore form, legibility, visual perception, dimension, points of view, perspective, colour, animation and modularity.

His passion for design excellence can be witnessed in the evolution of his work in the last decade. The son of a mathematician and of Italian/Anglo Saxon descent, David has embarked on a journey in design that is influenced by the way he sees the world. He pursues diversity in clients and output, which in turn employs a curious mix of playful yet intelligent; precise yet intuitive output.

His experiments in typographic form are a process that he has pursued since being a student and one of the creative threads that draws his work together.

David is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and has recently returned from speaking at the ICOGRADA World Design Congress in Beijing.
(source: AGDA's event listing)

David Pidgeon's typography work





http://pidgeon.com.au/

COFA Colour Colloquium 2009

The official title is actually
"1st COFA Colour Colloquium: New Perspectives to Teaching Colour - An Interdisciplinary Approach"

It's an event I attended today, which was most stimulating and in a way mentally exhausting. But it made my head swirl with ideas and my belly fill with emotions. So I had this idea, while taking down notes, to capture the essence of the speeches by using just phrases. I mean, really, who takes detailed notes these days, and more importantly, who actually re-reads them? I noticed that many ideas can be captured with just a few words, so here is my version.

Word clouds generated by brilliant Jonathan Feinberg from Wordle




Text aggregation of phrases
colour is completely subjective
colour classification is complex
lightness and darkness seem to be more important than hue
Ginger Riley
Ewald Namatjira
colour teleports us to a particular space in our consciousness
colour takes us to dreaming space
anthropology of colour
language of colour
detox from overstimulation
stop and observe
nature is the best teacher
colour detox
icons are windows to other dimensions
expand the way we deliver knowledge in the future through holograms
reduce information input and seek focus
David Bachelor
colour understanding is in observation, especially observation of nature
seeing reproduction is a very different experience from seeing the original work
go to a museum!
artwork aura
experimenting and altering perception
effect is dependent on your level of awareness
ability to perceive
walking in silence awakens heightened perception
relationship between intuition and knowledge
student needs to find a way to serve her/his individual needs
pink is the colour of the future
all the knowledge you need is out there
buy paints with single pigment
mix your own!
desire to seek
colours don't exist in vacuum
year-long cruise is best for learning