This weeks style inspiration sees red as the main point of focus. To be truthful, I’m not one to venture out into colours outside of black or white, but lately I’ve been more and more inclined to incorporate pop of colour into my wardrobe. So this week I out together 4 outfits: one for the…
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Here in Ireland, the period from mid-October to mid-November is one when hundreds of thousands of young people, most of them in their early 20s (me included!), go through a significant and often joyous rite of passage: College Graduation. We put on strange clothes robes specially for the day – which mostly look like gowns…
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If you’re into getting crafty with your hands, this is definitely for you. Phoenix The Creative Studio designed this fun modern packaging for The Bijou Factory, a company that specializes in creating self-made jewelry kits. The idea behind creating these kits was to drive home the concept that DIY and premium quality go well together.…
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Simple recipes are the most popular of all, even better if they are also beautiful and look impressive: to start of this recipe series I thought I’d post this panna cotta with yoghurt recipe, very easy to make, it will turn a delicate lilac color thanks to the raspberry juice. It ‘a perfect dessert for…
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The principle that moves The Ordinary is far from being impersonable. As you can see from the picture, the packaging of these beauty products is very reminiscent of the US drugs, where on the bottle they simply write the name of the active substance or prescription, the end. And that’s the idea behind this new…
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The future of graphic design: Motion Graphics, Infographs and negative space In the last few days, I’ve been thinking about how technology and technology innovation have influenced and continue to influence the world of graphic design; starting from Gutenbergs invention of the printing press in the 15th century to today’s powerful computers, 3D printers, interactive screens,…
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Always fashionable but always different is denim, adored fabric that has followed us everywhere through the centuries, amen. According to the great low-cost chains, the currently most-sold jeans cut is still the skinny style, but fashion prompts us towards more vintage cuts: tall waist, straight leg, frayed rim, some tear, comfortable sizes, bulky shapes. So…
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Aside from sadness instigated by abstinence from food, one of the triggers of nostalgia that I hit me the most comes from TV shows ending, and that will never be aired again. Revenge, Limitless (inexplicably lasting one season only), Gossip Girl and Mad Men. From Mad Men I adored many things: the creative world of advertising,…
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Once upon a time we used to take vitamin C by drinking juices and eating yellow peppers to avoid scurvy and other now forgotten illnesses, but now, in 2017, we practically find vitamin C even in Lush bathbombs. The wonders that vitamin C can do four our skin are: battling the effects of free radicals,…
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For a restless furniture lover like the myself, roaming the web in search of great minds that hack Ikea furniture has become virtually an obsession. Did I just decorate corridor? And I’d like to do up the bedroom again. Well then I’ll move to the sitting room! And then I’ll move to the bathroom. Oh…
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Marni and a few others aside, the bottom line is that in the various collaborations of H&M and X famous fashion designer has never shone for value, appeal and beauty. Of course, they have never reached the heights of the unrivalled, unparalleled, incomparable ugliness that is the collaboration between Kenzo and H&M will be in stores from…
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