Fashion inspired by Flowers

I love the simple reconstruction of petals and flowers into wearable outfits! I hope to find some of these in stores at some point in time! 

Original Post here: http://www.boredpanda.org/fashion-illustrations-flower-petals-grace-ciao/

Fun Design: Building Design in Harmony with Nature in Austria

This beautiful architecture  design by Rogner Bad Blumau in Styria, Austria acts as a hotel and spa to those visiting. The green design helps to decrease the movement of water, decrease heating and cooling costs because of the green design and also seems to tuck itself into the landscape. I love that from different angles, the buildings almost seem to disappear. The soft curves and colors are unusual and appealing to the eye. For a small city, there isn't the harshness that one would typically find. I like the harmony with nature created here!

Find out more information on their website: http://www.blumau.com/en/arrive-and-discover/architecture.html 

Great Design 1: Earth Without Art

I didn't realize how much pictures mattered until I saw this:

From a design perspective, it says the same thing as below much without as many words, without taking someone's time and without taking up space. 

Social media has the fortunate and unfortunate opportunity to sending out lots of messages and ideas to massive amounts of people in just a small amount of time.  An effective image will evoke an emotion, send a consistent message (or the message you want to send consistently) and be able to be viewed and assessed within five seconds.  The first image above tells you that you can't spell EARTH without ART. This is a message that brings greater consideration for artists, inspires passion while also getting you to think a little more about how ART influences the world.   The first image allows you to create your own interpretation while we read the words of the second image and instead of being left to think about EARTH = ART, ART is in the EARTH, I LOVE ART, I LOVE EARTH, etc... we think about why did they use a brown bag as a background, what would the earth be like without art? and certainly doesn't inspire me to appreciate Art or the Earth in anything more than an appreciation sense.   The second image spells out exactly what it is we are supposed to think... where as the first gives us lots of interpretation to play with. 

Chalk board designs

Elegant designs like this remind me how wonderful it is to spend half a day creating something at no cost people appreciate. I also love the gentle reminder how iconic and powerful images are. The simplest trash can or bite taken out of an apple can remind you of something so much larger than the chalk and board the images are drawn with.  Not to mention, I love the quotes!

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - J.M. Barrie

"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." - Neil deGrase Tyson

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." 

"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking."

"Don't settle."

"As with all matters of the heart you will know it when you find it."

Original From:http://www.quickmeme.com/p/3vw6x7 

Green Building Design for Haiti

Green building in_haiti from Rose Haft

Green Design: Synergizing Ecology, Economy and Energy through Greenhouses

Check out a University of Maryland Green Building Design I did a few years ago!

Odum, energy and green houses from Rose Haft

Playing with Dimension

Artist Alexa Meade decided that she wanted to explore and understand shadows -- how to take three dimensions and turn it into two by painting on bodies and removing natural shadows. Check out a preview of the process and pictures below! I think they are gorgeous!