Disciplined Illustration

Silja Goetz is a freelance illustrator with home in Madrid/ Spain, born in Germany, studied comunication design in Nürnberg,and worked 2 years as a graphic designer for Allegra Magazine in Hamburg.

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With a client list that includes El País, The New Yorker, Fast Company, among other leading publications, Silja is a disciplined multi-tasker who has overcome hurdles to make an impact in her field.

who are you?

inspired by maslow's hierarchy, build your own -and destroy it.

AMAZE ME

His name is Jordi Labanda (born 1970, Mercedes, Uruguay), and lived in Barcelona since the age of three.
He studied Industrial design and began to wrok as commercial illustrator in 1993. In 1995 his work began to appear at international press, New York Times Sunday magazine, Tatler, V or Vogue America, as well as contributed to various Spanish and international publications including Elle, La Vanguardia, Visionaire and Wallpaper*. His corporate clients include JVC, Alessi, Zara, Salvatore Ferragamo, Puig, Adidas, Knoll International and Louis Vuitton.
More about his bio and work at Jordi's offcial web site, and In Brief, you can watch the video Labanda talking.

‘I am relentlessly searching for beauty in all its incarnations � it is one of my ultimate obsessions. I would like to unlock the secret that will define beauty in the future. Describe to me one of your obsessions.’

inspirational talk on happiness and design

Via Designer Daily, great video from TED talk series by Stefan Sagmeister, Austrian graphic designer and interesting persona.
Enjoy!

"macbook - it IS so sexy...

...look at this curves, it's so sexy" - my male friend on his new macbook.
Moi-no comment. I twittered about this last evening.

Digital culture overwhelmed all barriers, can MacBook be the substitute for your girlfriend or significant other? In this case my male friend compared the 'curves' of his new MacBook with female ones.
When I asked him why? The reply was so simple: " because it's a perfect design of computer arts."

Stop the Violence: It starts with screams but must never end in silence

This happens in Europe as well, in developed countries, not only in traditional, patriarchal environments.
Statistics show that 12 % to 15 % of women in Europe face violence in the home every day.It does not have to be related only with 'domestic' violence. It can happen to you at work, on the street, at home, in everyday female-male communication, and seems like you cannot do anything about it. Recorded video hidden in the pocket doesn't work as legal process in many countries is long and is under corrupcy. Women are unprotected.
It also doesn't have to do with your education level, or if you are housewife, or young professional, calm person doing her own business, until someone comes and start to abuse/harass you. Verbaly and physically.
Someone brought laws to protect women, I am not femisnist, but when someone is abusing you in one, the other or both ways, you as a female should have some protection. It is not only the pain that can pass, but also the pain that for you as a normal persona makes introvert or wrong picture about male population (akka generalizations, etc.).

It is happening to many women, many of them are silent, many of them are loosing their cases, and many - maybe even worse: the faith.

The Council of Europe – Europe’s leading human rights organisation - has decided it is time it stopped. It has launched a campaign in its member countries to criminalise domestic violence, ensure support for victims and foster new attitudes so that violence against women in the home will no longer be tolerated. Everyone has a role to play. This site shows what is being done and where to combat violence against women - You are also concerned.

lounge anti-gravity

After resolving some of the issues and long working week, one should take a rest and relax.
This practical hammock, via, is perfect before weekend night out.

In the waiting line

In the waiting line:

. for servicing my laptop
. for the job
. for the fight of copyright violations,
e-intellectual property abuse that I am exposed.

Love to sleep

After whole week of running, running from spot A to spot B, working like mad, do not count anymore my work -time, going for an interviews (more to come next week, cheers! any good news will be good, i do hope), after the long nap I needed (I never sleep in the afternoon hours but this was exception), I rest my eyes on wonderful photos and then video was to come, thanks to Alex. Finally, read an article, via BBC, on a man who stayed awake for 11 days, wanted to break the Guinness World Record of 264 hours set by Randy Gardner in 1964. The name of the guy is Tony Wright, 42, from Penzance. He said 'he fought off tiredness by drinking tea, playing pool and keeping a diary'.
Like this one, right zen philosophy, he said: drinking tea ( I do), playing pool (another game), keeping diary (oh yes!). I wouldn't mind a peace of Tiramisu: ) And always when I wake up I'm between the dream and the reality.
Bloggers are not recommended to practice this, as Guinness killed the category due to possible health dangers.

Comme Des Garçons and PLAY!

Japanese fashion brand Comme Des Garçons (Like Boys) by designer Rei Kawabuko is introducing a new unisex fragrance called Play.
A new fragrance inspired by the brand's recently introduced Play clothing line.
Via slamxhype- The concept of the Comme des Garcons PLAY line is design by not designing. It is a collection of basic items based on original forms or prototypes. PLAY items are characterised by the iconic red heart logo designed by Filip Pagowski, a New York-based artist from Poland.
Notes include bitter orange, lime, black pepper, saffron, thyme, marine notes, patchouli, musk, and oakmoss.

History, via:
Tokyo-based fashion design house of Rei Kawakubo. "I have never really been into fragrances," said Kawakubo in 1999 (Women's Wear Daily, 9/20/2003), and perhaps that attitude explains the brand's strikingly unconventional range of scents.

Their first perfume, Comme des Garcons Eau de Parfum, launched in 1994. Other fragrances include White (1996), Odeur 53 (1998), Comme des Garcons 2 (1999), Odeur 71 (2000), Comme des Garcons 3 (2002), Comme des Garcons 2 Man (2004). The license for these fragrances is held by Puig Beauty.

In addition to the above, there is a series of series, or themed sets, of fragrances, including Series 1: Leaves, Series 2: Red (Harisssa, Sequoia, Palisander, Carnation and Rose), Series 3: Incense (Avignon, Jaisalmer, Kyoto, Ouarzazate & Zagorsk), Series 4: Cologne, Series 5: Sherbet, Series 6: Synthetic and Series 7: Sweet.

Recent releases include series 8: Guerilla 1 and Guerilla 2 (2006), Comme des Garcons Play (2007).

casting pearls...

again, today, at work, in hurry -after the colleague told the other colleague how she was watching live yesterday of 'breaking the precious glasses' for me, today i was casting the pearls...real one.
my pearl bracelet, only one I had, was torn in a motiona, and the outcome you know...
i didn't go after to pick, i am bittered.

walking on broken glasses

i just broke my nice, thin, no frame, computer protected glasses at work...phones, duties, hurry, 'i want it now and do this and that' orders etc.etc.
seems i have lot of damages those days and weeks, and signs that i notice but cannot change.
we are just little humans dying every night and having rebirth each dawn.
i shouldn't blog at work, especially on my lunch break. after this i cannot eat, i lost my appetite.

my new discovery of pc telephony

I used Skype and Yahoo messenger. Before. And always had delays. Most of the time.
Now I discovered with my French friend Google Talk. Many people use Google talk - chat is for chatting, but last night I had a chance to hear perfect sound, not only of my companion's, but the cars and mopeds on the streets - all sounds from the balcony, which was great, as from now I will use Google talk instead of Skype. This sounds like ad for Google talk, but it was really cool and I could speak back my French clearly.