peak district

This trip to the peak district inspired the mountains ranges in my "The Little Book of Positivity".

copenhagen

When in Copenhagen I managed to visit the studios of Kontrapunkt and Hvass and Hannibal. 

So inspiring to see their innovation and current designs, I even used Kontrapunkt's type face in my homeware design project due to its simplicity and elegance.

MoMA

When in New York I visited the Museum of Modern Art. Here are the pieces that interested me the most due to their textures, interaction and abstract qualities.

LAKE GARDA

Vibrant coloured houses in Italy. Inspiration for colour schemes.

Dali museum berlin

When in Berlin I visited the Salvador Dali Museum and it did not disappoint, amazing designs, lovely staff and an insight into Dali's processes, including print making, film, photography, illustration, collage and the list continues! He literally is the master of experimentation. I especially enjoyed my visit as his work was displayed in a series, showing his initial roughs and thought process behind his famous works of art. I love seeing the development stages involved in design as they help you to see his flawed ideas before they were refined for the final outcome (or not in Dali's case). One of the most intriguing and funny things I found out about Dali's work was when his cat peed one of his painting in his Alice in Wonderland series (top image second from the left), yet Dali didn't get annoyed about the incident, he just embraced the dripping effect it created on his work and he went on to display it. 

Dali's main signature was his moustache that he would include in many of his paintings, it was really interesting to spot this throughout his work, sometimes his signature would include it yet sometimes the character he had created would have one. I loved his use of optical illusions in his work which you wouldn't necessarily spot unless you were looking very closely, one of his designs which is shown above had what looked like a victorian collar on, but when you look closely you can see it is made up of lots of tiny people fighting in armour. If you're heading to Berlin I would defiantly recommend giving the Dali Museum a visit, you won't regret it! :) 

A COLOUR BRIGHT

I visited the studio of A Colour Bright in Berlin. It was a great experience to see the work the company has produced and the design process that is involved to create their interactive web designs. They work mostly with music, technology and the media. On one of their recent projects they worked with Red Bull to create a new music streaming service, its really eye opening to see all the different platforms design can fall under!

It was also lovely to see the studio they work in, such a light, spaceous and contemporary area to inspire them to come up with such innovative ideas. I'd love to return! 
View their work here: https://www.acolorbright.com

                                         

NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY

I visited the Nottingham Contemporary to see their exhibitions by Wu Tang and Lara Faveretto. I went to the gallery to gain overall design and colour scheme inspiration. The darker colours on the canvasses against the bright red was something that caught my eye as an interesting design decision to explore.