Ilisha Helfman

Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Art, Craft, Fun, Play?
This is Ilisha Helfman's project dressing her hand crafted paper dolls in collaged articles from the New York Time's Sunday magazine.

"What would happen if I made clothing from every magazine cover The New York Times dished out over the course of a year? What fun! I could be like a contestant on Project Runway, scissors poised, ready to take on my next design challenge!" Ilisha Helfman

What did happen is an incredible body of work that has lessons to teach in using popular culture as an inspiration, in design sources, mood boards, graphic design and fashion design. 

Fifikoussout's gallery of dresses

A simple dress form is transformed radically by its surface pattern and design. Fifikoussout a French illustrator and artist has been exploring this by using photoshop to merge her favourite designs, paintings, themes and colours onto this simple dress template creating amazing dress designs that I for one would love to own. (thank you)

"This was for fun . . . an inspirational thing.
the concept behind it is like a virtual vernissage, as if you could dress up to go to an exhibition, wearing the art itself" Alice (Fifikoussout)

Ballet Russes I

Pictured above are some of the amazing costumes that are currently being exhibited around the world( at The National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra,and The Victoria and Albert Museum London) in celebration of the Ballets Russes. I love the amazing contrasts of fabrics and trims these costumes were designed in the early 1900's during the Russian Revolution and First World War, a catalytic time for design, in Western Europe and beyond. (thanks)

Paul Rand's Wisdom

A lesson in design from the wonderful graphic designer Paul Rand.