Laura Walsh

Greetings Cards – Etsy

laurawalsh — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:18:18 +0000

Beautifully written copy from VixensEmpire.

Vintage illustrations from KidsAtHeartDesigns.

Hand made prints of Manhattan Bridge in six different colours from Serimony.

Letterpress from LuckyBeePress.

Cute and girly do it yourself PDF card from Govango.

Beautiful hand cut card from Storeyshop.

Cute ‘Thanks a latte’ illustrations from nelladesigns.

Recycled, eco-friendly 3D cut sets by RUBYrecycled.

Tribute

laurawalsh — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:46:10 +0000

Today Britain, and the world, lost an amazing fashion designer. [BBC NEWS STORY]

Alexander [Lee] McQueen was, and will remain to be, one of my favourite British fashion designers. Here’s just some of the reasons why.

When I find the words to describe exactly how much I admire Alexander McQueen I will, but for now, the photos will do the job perfectly!

Bêtes De Mode

laurawalsh — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:30:47 +0000

I was vaguely aware of the series of photos I am going to share with you and was pleasantly surprised by the contextual reference I found of them in a very recent music video.

Bêtes de Mode [Fashion Beasts/Animals] is a series of photographs by Thomas Couderc and Clément Vauchez of Helmo. The images were created as a sales campaign at Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Galeries Lafayette is home to a breathtakingly beautiful domed ceiling that Couderc and Vauchez certainly made the most of.

Galeries Lafayette at Christmas

Bêtes de Mode is a series of thirteen images. Each displays a fashion portrait in blue and an animal portrait in red. On the windows of the department store there were a series of red and blue gels. These gels allowed you to see the fashion shot when looking through the blue and the animal shot when looking through the red.

The photographs were also hung around the dome with a series of red and blue flood lights creating the same visual effect with the photos as in the windows.

So here are some of the Bêtes de Mode photographs

Bouquetin

Insecte

Loup

Lynx

Ours

Zebre

The visual impact of these photographs is stunning and I would have greatly loved the see them in situ with the gels taking effect. It was fantastic to see these photographs referenced in a music video by one of my favourite bands recently.

Finnish band HIM have released their video for the first single, Heartkiller, from their new album [Screamworks: Love In Theory and Practice - Released March 2010]. Produced by James Copeman, the Heartkiller video reverses the colour usage with human in red and animal in blue. Copeman has cited his inspiration as this photo series.

I’m not much of a taxidermy fan, but there is a great artistic quality to this video, something which has come to be expected from Ville Valo [HIM frontman]. The last thirty seconds have some of the videos best human and animal combination shots.

I wish more videos had such an artistic slant, of course Valo takes his shirt off to satisfy many of his female fans, such as the wonderful women over at Valo_Daily, but this video has a lot more substance than your average music video, most of HIM’s videos do.

A Wildlife Photography lecturer once said, during a lecture on nature, that fashion was a pointless art with no ties to the worlds real roots – nature. I strongly disagree and shoots like this show just how effortlessly beautiful the combination of the two are.

Welcome

laurawalsh — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:45:50 +0000

Welcome to my visual diary. This blog will probably just end up filled with my thoughts on books I have read, ads I have seen, nice packaging I’ve disovered – all collected in one place so I have somewhere to look back at inspiration

Laura

Mix Tape

laurawalsh — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:42:51 +0000

To mark the first post I’ve decided to create a mash up post of artists scribbled in my Critical Studies notes and the odd company I’ve come across in the past few weeks.

So where to start, with the madness of Jeff Koons of course.

Post-Modernism defined. Does Jeff Koons even need an explanation? I feel if I explain him I ruin him, so I shall leave it as this photograph.

Another artist that once you start to question and explain a little bit of the magic dies, David LaChapelle.

Courtney, Curt & Frances. My favourite bit of this photograph? The building blocks as well as spelling out ‘Heaven to Hell’ spell out ‘LaChapelle’

Deanne Cheuk

My friend Rachael is a massive fan of Deanne Cheuk’s work and I can see why. I love her use of inks and delicate, yet simple, line drawing.

Phillip Jones Griffiths

A Welsh photojournalist during the Vietnam war Jones Griffiths captured the pain and torment of the war and the suffering of the Vietnamese people. Magnum found his pieces hard to sell in America for this reason. Take some time to browse his images, they are magnificent.

I’ve only just remembered this man, I was blown away when I first saw this image by Thomas Demand.

This is Copyshop. Demand creates his scenes entirely from cardboard and then photographs them. Hours of dedication go into his photographs of what could be mundane areas until you realise just how the images have been created.

Put simply, I want a Tord Boontje light!

I would have loved to have seen these high end fashion boutique installations by Andrea Mastrovito.

There is so much detail in all his pieces. Every single one is stunning.

James Jean

Most people my age I would assume know him for his work with My Chemical Romance. But he did the concept art [featured above] for a stunning piece for Prada named Trembled Blossoms. You can watch it here.