Dear friends,
I am participating in See Me Exposure Award 2015 and submitting 3 of my photos to the contest. I would greatly appreciate you following the link, voting and leaving a comment. I need 100 votes, I am currently at 51.
Here is a link: https://npulatova.see.me/exposure2015
Thank you!
Nilufar
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.
http://instagram.com/p/2Sj-WOt1H3/
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.
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.
Continue reading Transition of quantity to quality or how I am going to keep up with my Italian
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!
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.
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.
Welcome to my world. It looks like I got my wordpress theme under control and am ready to go live though there are still small changes needed here and there. Those I will make as I move along,
For now – hello and stay tuned!