A short discourse upon a style.

  It was a great month. For two first weeks I was in Tuscany, if you want to see some photos from the place please visit my girlfriend's blog (link is on the right-hand side). It is really beautiful place, the only thing is that when you just arrive and see the views you feel as if you were at home, in Poland. It's not so different. Then you begin to discover more and more differences as you have more contact with locals, their espresso-perversion, dining times, siesta, everything makes you more and more distant from the people there. It's because they act naturally and you just try to do it their way, that makes you a little overwhelmed then. But hey, the feeling is still great!

  I realised I have so much to make before my studies start. On top of that I wanted to sell something in our shop, it didn't come up well. Still patiently waiting for my first customer (Julia has already sold a set of 5 postcards, lucky she). I have much ideas to realise in my projects, so many inspirations back in Italy. When I've been seing all those big old buildings, like Sienese cathedral - really beautiful, or Florentine cathedral - that one is huge!, I wanted to memorise as much as I can to be able to incorporate their styles to my works. Although that sounds so pathetic as if I was a well-known designer or someone, I want to tell you I am not and I don't feel like. I use to think  in a very simple way about designing items. The look of the Florentine duomo is full of horizontal lines, line of cornice under it's windows lines up with cornices of side-chapels' domes, but the effect works only if you look at the cathedral from sides and from a distance. Look at a bell tower of the Sienese cathedral, count how many windows it has on every floor, then you'll see there is something odd with them.
  If you try to take designs to pieces, you learn a lot how to design your own items. How to do it from the very beggining still not using previously prepared styles and motives that would make your work unoriginal. Athough it's easy to design you own piece of art, it's far too easy to folow any of those hundreds of schemes created before. Then you must either choose one style or make your own one. Build your own brand.

  I don't have any experience to be able to learn people, but I have enough pride to show you how I see the world and how helpful it is. I hope I'm not only a theorist and will be able to show you some of my ideas incorporated to my works. And, what's more, I hope maybe someone will appreciate that.
  What do you think about the whole process of creating your own brand ? Have you found your own style, either as a person who makes things or someone who experiences art ?

Something different

I don't feel like a painter or even sketcher. What's more I'd feel more convenient as a drawer in a desk than the one behind it. But sometimes it just comes to me and I have to make a use of it. And here, 'it' is for an inspiration.

Plans of a notebook-in-bed table.

...or however it could be called, hah, I don't know English THAT much :)
My dad asked me if I made him rotating table so he could comfortably use his notebook in a bed.
Moreover, he promised to buy me a bandsaw if I did it, and of course I agreed, who wouldn't!

So here I am, I drew some projects and finally I made this project with some dimensions attached. It doesn't show everything, because I hit on some more ideas of making joints - attaching the top to the rest with some pins etc. There is an interesting point in the project, the table stands on office-chair legs so it can move on some wheels and even change it's height. I think it's a really useful idea (as long as you have any chair to get rid off, I have :).

The best is that I've almost finished making it. It's really easy to build and it's a great occasion to try your jointing skills.