I've moved!!

I have made the switch and moved my blog over to wordpress. You can find me @ http://kimberlylewis.wordpress.com/

Happy new year! I am excited for 2010! I am working on a new website and I will be transferring my blog over to it. I am also working on a big personal project that I am hoping to unveil within the year. It is really exciting to be working on something that I am so passionate about and I can't wait to share it with everyone! In the meantime here are some photos of my holiday season.


Thanksgiving was filled with wonderful food such as my grandmothers 'fruit pizza' are my mother used to call it.


My sister graduated from college!


I went to a flea market in Tennessee with my sister and found this amazing lamp for $5! I am still searching for a shade though, better get on that


Went to New Hampshire for Christmas and hung out with my sister and her dogs



My Christmas tree at home!


Don't forget about Pacha!


She turned just turned 4!

New Apartment! Still in Brooklyn but moved down to South Slope. So much more space and my own bathroom and private balcony! More photos over at my flickr

Read this on the train today...

"After-images occur when the eyes had a concentrated burst of a single colour for a period of time. It triggers the optic nerve to create a brief flash of its complementary opposite, so fleeting it hardly ever registers. Ever wondered why surgical scrubs and operating theatre textiles are blue-green? It's the complementary color of blood red and, because the optic nerve recognizes the complementary colour when they look up, it prevents the surgeons getting an after-image when they look away from the open wound."

from "Chromatic Scale" in the newest issue of Selvedge

Color is crazy!

Raw Color

Raw color is visual research project about vegetables and their colors. Vegetables are purified to their raw color and then categorized on cards, the most intense colors are then made into ink cartridges to make prints. In this series (C) = Red Cabbage, (M) = Beetroot and (Y)= Pumpkin.

Raw Color via WGSN

DwellStudio

I am really excited to attend AT Offline New York Design Meetup tomorrow. This months speaker is Christiane Lemieux in of DwellStudio I am a big fan of DwellStudio's modern graphic aesthetic. I had popped into their sample sale that was happening Memorial Day weekend in Soho but sadly came out empty handed which was ok by me because I actually already own a Duvet of theirs that I bought two years ago when I moved into my apartment and I still love to pieces. I am really looking forward to hear Christiane speak candidly about how they got their start and how they have grown their business especially since I remember when it was much smaller and they didn't have all of the partnerships that they do now. If you are in the area you should come on out! Everytime I go I always bump into two (or three or four...) people that I know. I guess that the design world is pretty small after all!

A couple of months ago I got an email from Brittany asking me about the DIS Textile Design Program that I did two summers ago. I've been following her blog ever since and it looks like she finally arrived in Copenhagen and I am excited to relive Copenhagen and DIS all over again vicariously through her blog!

Speaking of blogs I stumbled upon this one this morning while through flickr. All of the photos are super organized by type of design and then time period and I spent a ridiculous amount of time browsing through a good chunk of them this morning. Check it out over here

Here are a few of my favorites


Madame Raisin 1925


Christopher Dresser 1876


I absolutely love this color palette


More Sonia Delaunay


Ok so I really like Sonia Delaunay


Last Sonia Delaunay I swear

Busy, busy, busy

Lists of things to do/accomplish/check off/see/finish in the next week-ish

-Work field trip tomorrow! Seeing with all of the Clinique creative packaging team with perhaps lunch afterwards...
- Hopefully make a quick stop at the Pratt show after work tomorrow
- AT Offline: John Christakos from Blu Dot at Blu Dot Showroom on Thursday
- finally cracked open my sketchbook from London tonight, finish scanning in drawings that have the potential to turn into patterns
- scan and start to live trace/play with 1920s wallpaper samples that I bought at Portobello Market in London
- figure out/rsvp/plan which parties and exhibits I want to check out for design week
- go to above parties during design week, bring lots of business cards
- trade shows trades shows trade shows! ICFF (of course), Surtex, National Stationary Show and Luxe Pack
- meeting with some Design Dames + Babes to discuss future volunteer opportunities
- BBQ in Prospect Park?
- a very belated Cinco de Mayo celebration with the girls at our monthly baking night
- start writing written part of competition that I want to enter, deadlines are looming!
- go to work plus all the other everyday things!

London

I got back from London almost 2 weeks ago but I have been unusually extremely busy and just found the time a few days ago to put my photos on my computer. I really didn't take many photos and focused more on working on my sketchbook. Once I get my scanner back and working I'll share some pages from that. But in the meantime here are some photos of my trip. Check out the rest on my flickr
Swedish Fashion: Exploring a New Identity at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London


Columbia Flower Market


Portabello Road Market


Roman Baths in Bath


Shopping in Bath (can't remember the name of this store at the moment) Love the wire chandelier


Markets markets markets! This was taken at the Slow Food Market in London


Bath was seriously GORGEOUS and a highlight of my trip, I was probably swayed by the amazing weather that I had there too.


Explored lots of little shops and gathered up lots of inspiration

London is approaching!

I am finally ironing out my London plans. I leave the night of the 8th and come back the 20th. I have been compiling a list of things to do. This weekend I am hoping to put them all together and come up with some sort of loose plan. It is all kind of coming together last minute which is ok by me. For once it feels nice to not be so constrained. A friend of mine has graciously offered me her couch to crash on the second weekend I am there, and I should know within the next few days if another friends roommates are cool with me sleeping on the couch a few nights the first weekend . In between I plan on staying at hostels.

I plan on keeping a sketchbook my entire trip in the same vein as the one that I kept while in Copenhagen. A sort of visual travel diary, documenting color, shapes, patterns and anything else that I find interesting along the way. I haven't been keeping a sketchbook at all since I started working fulltime back in September. It will be 7 months this week. I am hoping that London will not only be a nice getaway but it will also act as an artistic catalyst of sorts for me.

Macy's Valentine's Day Packaging

I am aware that it is way past Valentine's Day but I have had these candy boxes sitting on my desk after I bought them post Valentine's Day on sale. I worked on the pattern development on both of them while I was freelancing at Macy's last summer and thought that I would share! Click on the photos to make them bigger. Oh and btw those chocolates in there are long gone! I couldn't resist.

Fashioning Felt

Earlier this evening I went to the opening of Fashioning Felt at the Cooper-Hewitt. It was a bit last minute since a co-worker of mine decided not to go and I went in her place. Funny because I had actually written a blog entry last night about how excited I was to get to see it over the weekend. I didn't finish writing it because I was so exhausted but instead I have a few photos that I snapped. I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend it!

Wednesday night I attended Apartment Therapy's Offline talk with Katherine Hable Sweeney and Susan Hable Smith of Hable Construction which was extremely inspiring and informative. So much inspiring things happening lately that I am hoping to keep the momentum going! We will have to see what the weekend holds!

Sunny Sunday

Woke up and was excited that it was warm enough to wear my purple trench coat. I paired it with a red dress, an unlikely combination for myself. Little things like color combinations can make my day. Took the bus over to Red Hook and made a quick stop at Ikea to get new curtains for my room. The ones pictured in the above photo in the kitchen I had originally bought for my room but found a new home in there because they were too busy. On my way out I got a frozen yogurt hoping that I would walk outside and it would be warm and wonderful and spring like but it was windy and much more chilly than I had remembered so I had to eat it really fast while shivering. Walked on over to Fairway and got lots of yummy food and got carried away with the 4 grapefruits for $2. Ended up trudging to the bus stop with 8 very large grapefruits along with all of my usual groceries. Happy hour and dinner with friends at a local Italian place ended my day on a perfect note.

Carnarsie Suite

Aimee posted some photos from a recent shoot for her newest show Canarsie Suite Edge of Vaudeville on flickr and I am really loving them especially the colors! Aimee and Jenny are booked for a festival in Brighton, UK and Prague, as I had mentioned previously and it looks like I may end up heading over there and joining them for a bit! Check out the rest of the photos here

Beautiful Stop Motion Animation

via Lee

Wow.

Macy's Tableware

Look what finally popped up on the Macy's website! And already on sale! The Cellar "Indigo Bloom" is one of the tableware sets that I worked on while I was freelancing at Macy's as an assistant designer working on print and pattern over the summer. It is was my first design job out of college and these are the first things that I have worked on to hit the shelves so it is exciting! Sadly you are going to have to wait for any Clinique products that I have worked on for a while, since I started at the end of the Fall 09 season!