Bag design for Chekhov

anti war poster

In the Garden of Postmodernity

Oblomov Vampire shoes

These shoes use soft materials from the Victorian dress to create teeth around a high heel base, with soft leather and rings to secure the shoe.

Penguin Classic

Here I had fun with the Classic Penguin cover. The design and the logo for me is one of the best Penguin had. The genre was instantly recognizable, the brand clear, and the space for illustration was just right. I think I never got so excited by covers like these - especially when I came across them in secondhand book stores. They also look good on the shelf. Perfect desiggn for paperbacks. So perfect I had to have my way with them.

Nabakov Book Design 2

This is where I show the cover and the source material from which I drew inspiration for a parody of a cover. I had fun here.

Book Cover Designs

I have for several months preoccupied myself with "mucking around" with book cover designs, using the simplest graphic tools - they all have a "Blue Peter" look to them! I quite liked this one where I tried to make a new cover for Nabakov more streetish - than Laura Ashley - though of course the late Laura's designs are commendable in the right context

Punky shoe

This shoe actually incorporates some of the concepts regarding Green design. I mean it is essentially a destroyed pump. However if it were to go into production it would probably have to be redesigned so as to incorporate recycled and recyclable materials. I think the black and red sums up the dark mood of classic punk - the blood and depression, whereas the spikiness reflects the raw energy. The chains of course suggest the design has "sold out", but anything post-Punk has sold out, has it not?

Climate change

Of course one of the most important elements in design is connected with its carbon footprint - how destructive will the product be to the environment. I suppose, DIY design from used clothes and shoes is a goal one might go for. Taking shoes that have been chucked away and reheeling them with recycled rubber or other materials - using materials to decorate. One could look at shoes and clothes as either daily or one-offs. The one-offs can be like high fashion - created for the moment. The beauty of high fashion and recycling integrated, is that one can look good, and so can the planet.

Climatique Shoes

I came up with shoes that are more symbolic and aesthetic than functional. I had in mind Venice and the imminent deluge. One would have to walk on stilts. So these pumps have heels which seem rather like a millipede or caterpillar which reminds me of a poor girl in the Australian model programme in which she had to come with an image. Her image was silkworm. The photographer hollered "You are not worm enough." Of course the silkworm is not a worm. She was right. She was being caterpillar-like.