Interior decoration

Fred Gonsowki’s blog: interior decoration resources

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Fred Gonsowski Garden Home

A few days ago I came across a Thonet chair which I want to buy for a project. Today, as I was googling Thonet chairs to identify the one I found, as it always happens, I got distracted and found myself in the world of Fred Gonsowski’s guidance on interior decoration. This is something I want to bookmark for myself and feel that a lot of other people will find very useful.

Fred Gonsowski’s blog:  http://fredgonsowskigardenhome.com/

This is a great resource for interior decoration – anything from arranging decorative accessories, pictures over a sofa,  furniture layouts, pairing lampshades with side tables and much much more. There is also a gardening section which I still need to dive into.

Many thanks to Fred Gonsowki for making the resources available to us. Also, I love his  hand drawn illustrations.

Graphic design

Social Scandinavia rules again. This time in hand lettering.

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Sometimes it feels like there is a lot of noise out there. I was about to  permanently close my Facebook account thinking I couldn’t take it anymore when a friend  showed me a way of “muting”  some hyper activity and cleaning up my home feed. Instragram, on the other hand, has been a great source of inspiration, especially in the area of graphic design. One of my favorites to this date has been Jonathan Faust, a graphic designer from Copenhagen, Denmark. He runs a daily challenge of doing hand lettering and uploading his work in Instragram for us to enjoy his clean, cool, balanced, elegant Scandinavian left-handed magic. His work is so inspirational that I am seriously considering playing with hand lettering myself too.

Follow him in instagram (#jonathanfaust) and check out his portfolio at www.jonathanfaust.com.

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Photography, Travel

Food nirvana a.k.a. Mercato Ballaro of Palermo

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I come from a culture where food shopping in outdoor markets is a way of life. Uzbekistan is known for its bazaars and its fresh produce. As such I am quite used to seeing rows and rows of fresh produce and vendors praising their apples, tomatoes or whatever happens to be in season.  However, I must officially state that no fresh food market I have seen in the world compares to  Mercato Ballaro of Palermo. If there is anything greater than this, please drop me a line. I want to visit that place.

Life Design Experiments

Transition of quantity to quality or how I am going to keep up with my Italian

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I really hate the idea of waking up one day and discovering that I no longer speak Italian. It will hurt to admit that whatever I worked on so hard is GONE (like the French I used to speak quite decently or piano I used to play). My exposure to the language these days is limited to Adriano Celentano discography and email messages from Italian brands promoting their products.

I am a true believer that patience and regular practice can take you to a whole new skill level. This is applicable to practically everything – exercising, learning how to draw, learning math, etc. In other words, regular repetitions over an extended period of time will transform you.

So I decided that I need to do something and that something will be a 40 day challenge to enrich my Italian vocabulary.

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Photography, Travel

Dancing in a park

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The way it works is this - a dance teacher brings a boombox, students come to an agreed place in a park , the class starts. I love the idea!

While updating my online portfolio, which, i must tell, is a project of its own,  I came across this photo which I took back in 2011 in Bei Pei park in Beijing. This is a dance class taught in a public park. The way it works is so simple  – a dance teacher brings a battery operated boom box, students gather at an agreed place and the class begins. The idea is ingenious!

Architecture, Graphic design

Stefan Sagmeister: “stay small!”

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I am a big fan of a Danish architectural firm BIG headed by Bjarke Ingels. Needless to say, I follow their work and read their interviews. Recently, while reading up on their new book ” HOT TO COLD, an odyssey of architectural adaptation” I made another discovery – Stefan Sagmeister! The man is a graphic designer and a partner at  “Sagmeister & Walsh” which worked on a design of “Hot to Cold” book.

Hot to Cold, BIG, Bjarke Ingels
“Hot to Cold” by Bjarke Ingels

I start googling Sagmeister’s work and reading his interviews.  Just like every encounter in life is to teach us something, one specific interview I read was like a guidance from above and an answer to my questions.

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