MIKE ID: June 2008

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Inspiring Fabrics/Finishes III

Mandara

This is wallpaper design is an old favourite. It is Osborne & Little's Mandara from their Autumn 2005 collection, Adara. It is being re-released in new colourways in their latest collection, Metropolis. It is chic, moody classic.

Detail of colourway with fawn background and a metallic gold pattern.

This colourway has a silver metallic background and charcoal tree pattern.

Promotional shot of Mandara used in a bar.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

My Stuff IV

Undies

I've been working on a few designs for underwear over the past month. Still working within the Alpha Male theme.

Roos

Monkey Love

Charge

After slogging away in the residential Interior Design industry, struggling with moral dilemmas (creativity or cash?), existential angst (what am I actually contributing to the world!?) and personality clashes (botoxed, zombie, old money housewives and psychotic, backstabbing decorators) I managed to step back far enough for an objective view, and did not like what I could see.

I was working in a luxury industry, selling things to people I did not like. Things they were unwilling to open their fat wallets for. Things they thought would make them happy (which didn't) and they were ultimately ungrateful for.

No more.

MIKE.ID is my attempt at putting this right. An attempt to bring something a little more down-to-earth and genuine to this design endeavour. And an attempt to be true to myself and my sense of style.

Hence, MIKE.