Together with a friend of mine, Laurette Levi, I’m working on a project to get the Uit Je Bak festival more sustainable. The Uit Je Bak festival is an inspiring festival with music, theatre, art and more. We searched the internet and pinterest for ideas regarding this theme and found some really inspirational stuff:

Seating area made of pallets

Mason jar chandelier

Recycle empty paint cans to make an artwork.

Merchandise packaging that can be transformed into something else

Lampshade made of can tabs

Newspaper seat

Flyers stamped on recycled paper

A black-light disco or artwork based on fluorescent bacteria instead of chemicals.

An old suitcase transformed into a bar

Egg carton lights

Take a book and leave on behind trading post

Sometimes you stumble upon really great bands and start to wonder why you never found their music before. Today I was digitalising my cd collection and add them to my digital collection when I stumbled upon The Golden Filter. They caught my eye because of their albumcover for the album Voluspa which is a photo of a person covered with a red cloth in the middle of an abandoned landscape. I started listening to it and it’s a really great album! I can’t really remember where I found it, probably on Last.fm in a list of recommended artists because it does sound a bit like some other bands I love, like iamamiwhoami and Zeigeist. I looked them up on the internet and found out that one of their latest records is an audiovisual project. I really like it when visual artists collaborate with bands to create something that’s somewhere in the middle of a movie and a videoclip. The film Syndromes is a about a young girl which seems to have some sort of talent to heal people. You see her struggle with the power to heal but also feeling sick because of all the ill people she has to visit.

Go to www.thegoldenfilter.com to see the film.

I also found that besides an interesting film the band also has some interesting photos, including the Voluspa album cover:

I want to start some new categories on my blog I want to write about every week or month. One of them is the product category where I want to show product brands I like. This week I want to show the products of the Danish brand Hay. I like Hay for their colourful but simple designs. They use simple geometric forms and patterns. The other thing I like about them is how their photography matches their products. In their photos they cleverly use colour, shapes and composition to display their products. The combination of their photography and products is what makes their brand stand out.

Last week I searched pinterest for inspiration about product styling

Jewelry by Joanna Rutter


by Hay

Photography by Susanna Vento

Photography Carl Kleiner

Photography by Floor Knaapen

by Marsha Golemac

by Dietlind Wolf

Weekly inspiration from pinterest!

Idea for flyers for the Uit Je Bak Festival I’m working on.

Alpine Prism

Bunnies by OYOY

Nice workspace by OYOY

Engraved glasses, another thing I want to add to my project to-do list

Adorable

The snow is gone and so is the winterfeeling.. Today it’s grey and raining all the time. Can’t wait for spring.

I love to look in magazines like 101 woonideeën to collect ideas for my own place. Since a year me and boyfriend have our own place which we like to decorate with products we like. Before he lived with his parents and myself with two room-mates so we never had a real place of our own which we could style and decorate the way we wanted. We started here with stuff I already had from my old place but in that time I bought stuff which I liked just a bit because it was cheap and kind of nice to look at (or because it was cheap). Furthermore we had lots of stuff which I got for free from my parents who recently moved to a new house so they got lots of spare furniture and accessories. So over the past year we got rid of lots of old stuff which we didn’t really like anymore and only bought new stuff which we really like and fits with our style. I posted some photos of our house on my pinterest and want to make some more photos soon (after I organized everything)

This week it was time to replace our coasters! Today I went to Amsterdam to buy paper for my exhibition and on my way back to the trainstation I paid a visit to De Bijenkorf and found these real cool coasters from Kikkerland . You can rotate the transparent top to get a kaleidoscope effect.