[ Attention challenge ]

For my blog presentation I made myself a challenge. Because my blog is all about attention in your daily view I thought it was a good idea to find my inspiration and create something immediately in the classroom.

A wall-plug took my attention, several people plugged their stopper in and out.

That gave me the feeling of connecting with each other, the connection between people and I wanted to show that connection in wall-plugs.

Lifestyle & Design > Attention!

Lifestyle & Design can be everything that's wye you need to hold your eyes wide open and get your inspiration from almost everything that surrounds you. You have to pay attention to daily things and don't be afraid to lose a lot of time.

My research is divided in three subjects witch are daily inspiration, organize and old habits.

Old habits meets daily life

In other blogpost I showed you Artists inspired by old habits and Daily things. This artist placed old habits in our daily street view. Nowadays you see a lot of knitting street art witch I really like because you bring intimacy into the streets.

This street art is from Crystal Gregory

Material switch

Everyday we throw a lot of garbage away. Mostly plastic packaging like bottles and bags but also a lot of paper and pasteboard. Paper and pasteboard looks sustainable but it also needs to be recycled. If we switch these materials in some materials that life a lot longer and are sustainable, we would have less garbage.

Two designers came up with that kind of idea, an idea inspired by an common product.

Bags made from leather, you can't throw these away!

Ramon Middelkoop [ My Paper bag ]

Marie Turnor [ PicNic Clutch ]

Organize!

A new trend in arts seems to be arranging and ordering, a lot of artist are doing it.

In an earleyer blogpost I showed you some artists witch are ordering their shopping.

An other example is Steve McPherson who makes beautiful collections of plastic things arranges by color.

Today I was going to clean my closet and decided to organize that too, usually me and my closet are not that organized so it was going to be a big change.

I discovered that my color palette isn't that versatile their is only black,white,blue and pink in it.

Steve McPherson ;

Graphical food

We all eat at least three times a day, some of us eat all day long.

We eat for pleasure with out friends.

We eat because we are feeling sad.

We eat because where bored.

It seems like food is an perfect inspiration that everybody appeals.

Carl Kleiner photographed food in a graphical way

Embroidery old-fashioned?

Embroidery is an old avocation, something your grandmother does.

Nowadays we make almost everything on our computer it's fast and easy. But old habits always come back.

A lot of artists are knitting and stitching, Inge Jacobsen is one of them.

The work she is currently making is an intervention into found images through embroidery, cutting and collaging. The images she uses are from high fashion magazines.