Design Inspiration.

So I don't know why but I never really talked "design" here. I think it's because I was building, selling, designing and it was just too much to keep going when I got home. Now that I find myself never doing it(aside from moving an accessory to the other side of the room, because I'm bored with its current place), I find myself a little inspired to talk a bit about design. Grab your pens and notebooks, ready?

When I was in college, educating myself in art and all aspects of design(how I miss those days) I started to gravitate to the 'modern' team. I kept remembering my house back in Brazil and how my mom had everything in its place, very minimal and functional. So when I first heard "Form Follows Function", those words felt inherently mine. I vividly remember the first time I saw a slide of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye,(click left to see a 3D video) I immediately began my admiration and idolization of him.




My first Design year was comprised of only "core classes" which consisted of figure and spatial drawing classes, art history, principles and elements of design, color theory, color application, sculpture and so on. My favorite class of all was Color Theory. We had to buy this box of 1000 hues paper that looked like it had been machine coated with paint. I still can smell the fresh coat of paint. Our professor Joe Ostraff(painter) made me think more than any other professor I had that year. With the millions papers in every hue and tint we had, he instructed us to make a book(which I regretfully no longer have)which showed a main color contrasted against two different colors in order to show the main color as completely different. Then he also made us find two different colors which contrasted against other colors, looked exactly the same. I remember my friend Cat and I spending hours working on that project. I swear that was the only project we had the whole semester. It was an amazing experience about the relationship and influence that colors have on each other.

Joe took us to the Folio section of the BYU library where we got to see original Joseph Albers color relationships and again I fell in love with another artist. That is when I realized, that if I mixed the international style of Le Corbusier with the color theory and application of Albers and Kandinsky, I could come up with my personal perfect style. Since then I've been trying really hard to realize my dream.

So here I sit. I have an almost blank canvas in front of me, that will be easily cleaned up. Because of these men, I have inspiration. This house, will be the one we'll grow old in(hopefully, I said that about the last couple),and I'd like it to be a sort of "warm" museum. Clean, minimalistic, bold, intriguing, welcoming. Let the remodeling begin.