I recently liked a lot the stylings that Studio Pepe are developing for Case De Abitare new look...
Aren’t the colours just gorgeous?

I’ve been enjoying a lot of free time this weekend, having a picnic, watching Twin Peaks once more, cooking and reading some new magazines and many other things...
One of the mags I bought is Wallpaper*(october’s issue) on which Rei Kawakubo, Louise Bourgeois and Zaha Hadid appear as special guest editors!!!

On Wallpaper* I saw this tricot piece I totally love from Lutz & Patmos.



And did you see the Lutz & Patmos FW08 limited edition design created by Kirsten Dunst?

I have to admit I am crazy about this couple... I’ve been adoring Eley Kishimoto clothes for years... I love the designs, I love the prints/patterns... I definitely like them :)

And I looooove their new SS’09 collection “Little Devils” shown ath the London Fashion Week about a week ago...

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My Passion Flower (passiflora coerulea) is in bloom today!!
:D
look at her at the balcony...what a gorgeous flower!



Below some antique botanical pictures that I love too... (from finerareprints.com)

Tonight I’m attending a Great Italian Opera Night at Palau de la Música Catalana -a stunning concert hall modernista designed by Domènech i Montaner between 1905-08-.

Arias, duets and recitatives special :D
I wish some of the tenors will sing “Una Furtiva Lagrima” from L’Elisir d’Amore (Donizetti) -here’s a link for the song singed by Best Tenor Ever: Enrico Caruso-

Just send via Futureme an e-mail to myself to be received by me in 3 months time.

I’m with so many ideas for projects at the same time that my notebooks and Moleskine-agenda are full of them in no particular order -all messed up- and I’m getting a little paranoid thinking about forgeting/loosing some of them.
As I hope in Christmas time to be more relaxed I programmed this e-mail to be sent to me on that moment to refresh this projects for the new year...

Until now I was doing this kind of things in a more analogic way... letting messages for myself on the pockets of my winter coats and so...

Think I still like it more the analogic way though... but Futureme is a great idea however!



*I know this image has nothing to do with the post... but I found it through FFFOUND and I wanted to place it here :)
Love it!

Sorry for not posting this last two days, but I took a break to relax, sleep and enjoy the sun...*
now... I’m back!
:)
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Reading a magazine I recently discovered the brilliant photographic work by JeongMee Yoon.
Aren’t these pictures amazing?









Pink & Blue project (2005-ongoing project)







Natural History Museum (2001)

Today is a really happy day, my design studio Alan The Gallant has been featured on The New York Times (thanks to Design*Sponge)!!

TOPO AZUL is a handmade designed deep blue high quality wallpaper I’ve created for Alan’s pattern design brand PATTERN TALES®.

As we produce small quantities to keep it exclusive it is only available by pre-order, if you are interested in buying TOPO AZUL wallpaper or you need more info, etc check Alan The Gallant’s website or write us.

Last winter I was crazy looking for a perfect dufflecoat, the original ones, some beautiful warm coat from a vintage store or so... and I didn’t find THE COAT...
But this winter is different... Dover Street Market is here to bring us the original Gloverall Dufflecoats in an exquisite colour palette.
...a pity that they don’t have a thrift store price though ;)

I love Jeff Depner paintings.

Yesterday finished my “TOP 10 Contemporary Pattern Selection” for Netdiver’s 10 year Anniversary.*

I’ve enjoyed every minute of doing it (and I discovered how much I love curating!) but the hard time comes with choosing just 10 designs among so many beautiful patterns being created everyday... so I thought about posting some “Netdiver Anniversary selection B-SIDES”...

*Soon Netdiver is revamping their whole site, adding new contents and special features to celebrate their 10 years of life as an international arts & design reference website, stay tune for more info. :)

SO LET’S BEGIN WITH A CONTEMPORARY PATTERN ALTERNATIVE SELECTION:

Artist Michael Lin creates fantastic gigantic floral patterns on Contemporary Art Spaces (I saw one of them at Palais de Tokyo for real and I couln’t stop taking pictures of it).


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Albert Sjostam’s monochrome patterns are geometric and brilliant. Love them.


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Thematical patterns by illustrator Hennie Haworth



...MORE TO COME SOON, promise!!!

have a great monday :)

Simple and beautiful antique japanese drawings by Kyosen Gangucho.
Galleries with hundreds and hundreds of them!!
I’m mystified.

Tonight we are attending The Little Ones concert at La2 del Apolo (Barcelona).
A nice indie-pop dose is necessary when summer is fading into autumn...
See you there :)

of Montreal is one of my favourite bands... their songs are like contemporary operettas, eclectic and mutating all the time.
I’m in love with their new record.

here is a video from their last record Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?



...and today I need to talk about other of my must bands at the moment... in Pitchfork you can see a three part interview with Jay Reatard (totally love his music! -specially loud-)

My friend (and business partner) Alex spend her holidays in Portugal this summer, and as a present she gave me these fantastic vintage notebooks (and a beautiful kind-of-art-nouveau-styled soap:) ...!
Aren’t they gorgeous?


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Gracias Alex*

I love these newspaper dismantling pieces by Kim Rugg.









*Images from “Don’t mention the war” an exhibition she did last spring on PPOW gallery (NYC).

Two weeks ago I saw “Les demoiselles de Rochefort” and I still can’t take out of my mind the main song from the movie composed by le grand Michel Legrand. Catchy tune, great choreography and endless beauty by sisters in real life Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac.

See the video below, and if you haven’t seen the movie yet, run and go for it ;)




*also highly recommended “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg” directed by Jacques Demy too!

I totally love Bjorn Copeland’s artwork (I know... I’m into colorful things a lot right now :)...also I listen a lot to Black Dice music (he plays the guitar there too). Really talented definitely!
Great collages, vibrant compositions and a postmodern (or post-contemporary) pop sensibility.

ta-tá!

Our dear and beloved Alan The Gallant was born yesterday receiving lots of fantastic feedback, I’m very happy that people seems to really like our projects :)

We were featured on some inspiring blogs including DesignSponge* ! (Thank you Grace :)

Hope you enjoy browsing our new website.

Have a happy friday!


I couldn’t resist from pasting my fav dance scene from Thank God it’s Friday (the 70’s movie with Donna Summer!)

Barcelona Fashion Week’s “080 Barcelona Fashion” began yesterday and I’ll be reviewing the next days some of the shows/events, hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
:)

Here’s a clip I uploaded this morning to youtube with the end of the yesterday’s SS'09 Teresa Helbig show. 80's references with soft color palette. I personally liked the music selection... “Heard it through the gravepine” Marvin Gaye’s cover by The Raincoats is one of my favourite covers ever!!. “House of Jealous Lovers” by The Rapture is a non-stop hit too... ;)

Yesterday attended to a totally beautiful exhibition for the launch of Barcelona Fashion Week “080 Fashion Barcelona”. The venue was a stunning 15th century palace on calle Montcada (the same street from Picasso’s Museum in touristic Born neighbourhood) that’s called Palau Dalmases. Miriam Ocariz a really talented spanish designer who made an exhibition about her creative process called “From the idea to the runway”.
I loved the place, the installations and the dresses.
Vive la mode! Vive l’art!

*Some pictures I took below.








...and a miniclip from one of the rooms with an installation...

This days are quite crazy/busy, I’m just finishing Alan The Gallant’s website, the new project I’m creating together with Alex, my business partner.
We are not calling us itte studio anymore, now is Alan the brand new face for all the new services we are offering with a sense of total renewal. :)
I’ll post telling you about the launch... ( it’s going to be really soon! promise! )

And today, well... tonight, I’m posting a little illustration advance for Alan The Gallant’s website and identity... my first heraldic design for the launch!
There will be more for different occasions!

To new beginnings*
cheers!
^_^

Another media feature! Yeah!
This time full page on Tendencias Fashion Mag (Spain)...
*Gracias Victoria!

A little bit of translation...
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Aesthetic osmosis
Stamps for a better world

...... Two components who settled down in Barcelona to form itte studio, an active miscellany of projects with a common order of components, renewable ideas with intention of fresh creation and cultural reminiscences

..... in all their vast works, from books, web pages, fair stands or corporate image, manage to reach a delicate stylistic balance that awards them a proper speech. if versatility was taking bony form of creative atelier, would definetly finish resuscitating in itte studio...

Andre Herman Dune and Rachel Lipson : Metal and Vinyl



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The Electric Prunes : I had too much to dream (last night)



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Serge Gainsbourg : Almost all of his records...




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Turquoise : The Further Adventures of Flossie Fillett. The Complete Recordings




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Samara Lubelski : Spectacular of Passages / Parallel Suns



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Jana Hunter : There’s no home



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France Gall : Poupée de Son



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Free Kitten : Inherit (I just realized that I bought my first Free Kitten vinyl when I was 15!... 12 years ago :O )



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Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found BOX SET : One Kiss Can Lead to Another.



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Andy Capp : Pop-a-top (this single was on the famous John Peel box)



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