http://hellovalerie.com Design, writings and musings Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:02:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How can I not love a collection named after me? The separates look great for mixing and matching. I love that red shoe. It's crazy, it's unique and it's HIGH! And that cute little gingham dress... I know where my pay's headed... http://hellovalerie.com/2008/06/30/valerie-by-topshop/ Hello, this is my new phone. Apple has announced the launched of Apple iPhone 3G! It comes in 2 colours, black and white. And get this, comes with a glossy plastic back. It's smaller, faster and hell a lot cheaper. It will be retailing for US$199 everywhere in the world ... http://hellovalerie.com/2008/06/10/apple-iphone-goes-3g/ Irish electronica star Róisín Murphy's Overpowered is one of the most polished, tightly choreographed electronica albums in recent times. Róisín Murphy (pronounced as ro-SHEEN), once one half of Moloko, returns with Overpowered. In this album, she is cheerful as she's depressing, positive as she's heartbreaking too. Róisín tells you how ... http://hellovalerie.com/2008/05/29/roisin-murphy/ I'm so happy to see the website that my team and I worked so goddamn bloody hard to create is so well received by the design community. We have won accolades on this weeks' DesignCharts, last week's E-Creative.net and won Site of the Day (15 May 2008) on Designlicks.com! Levi's ... http://hellovalerie.com/2008/05/27/levis-mix-it-up/ Indonesian born Tessar Lo displays a flair for painting pictures that speak a thousand painful words. Yet his strokes are incongruent with such dark sentiments. His paintings on mediums like wood and stonehenge are like poetry in dark, stormy night. Pensively beautiful yet perfectly comprehensible. I also like how his ... http://hellovalerie.com/2008/05/22/painting-on-wood/ ColorFlip by Rafaël Rozendaal, interactive experimenter extraordinaire, creates an entertaining, addictive site of coloured paper. All there are to the site are sheet after sheet of intensely coloured paper for you to tear and tear and tear. Sometimes, things don't have to be complicated to be beautiful and engaging. It ... http://hellovalerie.com/2008/05/18/the-never-ending-colour-book/ 2006 alternative film by György Pálfi takes the viewer on a journey of surrealism in a realistic world. Set in Hungary, the film is a chronicle of three dysfunctional generations. From a martial father who's first born is a boy with a pig's tail, to a disgraced speed eating champion ... http://hellovalerie.com/2008/05/15/taxidermia/ Have you ever been in a position where you are told to not do something by someone of authority and, no matter how you wrack your brains for a reason to not do so, you just cannot find a reason? Say for example, you were walking down the road and ... http://hellovalerie.com/2008/05/05/rebel-with-a-cause/ I had a dream that Freddie Mercury stitched me up with needle and thread. And I was grateful. http://hellovalerie.com/2008/04/25/queen/ http://hellovalerie.com/2008/04/11/portishead/