Online boutique // fresh design

As designers, we know how hard it is to be independent, to have your own stuff and succeed. And in those crisis times, it is even more difficult to take a step forward in the business creation. But we see those guys abroad and everywhere, they launch their illustrator career, or even their tattoo parlor slash tea boudoir and claim aloud that if they succeed now then they'll carry on that success during the good days to come.

So in those names, there is Saskia Pougnet. Young designer, studies cocooned in Florence - yes not really cocoon we all know the hectic everyday of a design student! - she came back to Mauritius and simply launch Saskia P.

Beautiful.

Saskia P.

Minimal structure, diluted pastels tones, the perfect mix and match, a modern cut with macaroons features or how to be at ease and pretty. Virgin suicides lover here are the good addresses -

Take a look at her blog on :
http://saskiap.blogspot.com/

or even become gaga of her on:
https://www.facebook.com/saskiap.clothing

No! you rather spy her perfect taste so jump on her:
http://pinterest.com/saskiap/

The Saskia P woman is young, fresh and she knows what she wants and now she can shop online on :

http://www.etsy.com/shop/saskiap

Saskia P. - Etsy

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Poster Winner // Asma Randera

Months ago, the NGO "Friends in Hope" launched a poster contest, did you hear about it?
No?
Well it was an interesting contest, published through the newspaper and posters. It was addressed to youngsters of 16-22 years old and has the aim of sensitizing the society about the leitmotiv of the association that is psychiatric disorders.
And the winner is..Asma Randera.

Asma Randera's winning poster.

So here is our little talk with the witty lucky winner:


Etc: Who is Asma Randera ?

Asma: I'm nearly 22, graphic designer and franco-mauritian. I did all my school days in Reunion island. I did a "baccalaureate Littéraire" with "arts plastiques option". After that, I went to Mauritius to do a diploma in Graphic design at Charles Telfair Institute. I did some freelance works, worked as graphic designer in a watch and jewerelly firm and now, I'm "maquettiste" in a publication agency.


 Etc: Why did you choose to do design?

Asma : I always wanted to work in an artistic field where i can express my creativity. When i was in college, we used to use photoshop and illustrator to do some art project and i find these software fun to work with. I knew i wanted to do design after.

Etc: So, congrats! You've won the first prize of the contest! Can you tell us a bit more about this contest?

Asma: Thank you. The contest was about to do a poster which have theme "Maladie mentale : Briser les Préjugés" for the association Friends in hope.

Etc: What was your concept for your poster?

Asma: When we judge people, we do it through our eyes. That's why i wanted to represent "briser les préjugés" by a broken eye. Besides, "Préjugés" can be shown by the dark colour around the broken eye. I wanted to do something simple, easy to understand and which will catch, at the same time, the attention.

Etc: We are happy that you've won, but are you deceived by the lack of motivation, as very few Mauritians participated?

Asma: I personally don't know how many of participants there were, but if there were only a few who participated; it might not be because of a lack of motivation but most probably because doing a poster is not that easy as we have to find a concept behind it and respect the theme.

Etc:  We would like to know how do you keep the flame alive?

Asma:  I try to cultivate my knowledge in everything I can see, watch, read, like and dislike.

Etc:  Do you have any personal design project that you want to achieve?

Asma:  I just bought a wacom tablet and i want to do some digital art and why not doing some stop motions. Moreover, I want to learn more about web design, as I find it's an interesting field as well.

Thank you Asma for your time

Spotted // in our streets

Street tags  in La Preneuse; with an unusual colour

Another Street art in La Preneuse. Note that pop of colour with basic black and white comes some transparent turquoise and vibrant fuschia.

Saw in Quatre Bornes, this beauty; a Peugeot with a  particularity; the driver side is the left!

Vintage beauty

We've stopped the car for this one in Albion, witty and inspiring!

Coup de gueule // what is design for you?

Hey!
So facing technical problems with a dead laptop, the only contact that him and I have with the online world is at work - obvious! And it is very difficult to have my dose with 50 mins of internet in the morning but I am not that kicking, in fact I miss writing. I miss it so much that I wrote emails to 4 persons yesterday!

So I am seizing the day, with all the technical problem, to explain you the essence of this blog!
In fact it started really in 2010, with the online Magazine Peri Meter Design Magazine! YAY!
I love it, in fact it was his idea. He. his and him is Peri. My partner in crime. He  is the mastermind behind many of our projects and I am the helping hands, the factory and magician.

We were in fact feeling so bad with the hiatus of Peri Meter. It was a decision taken and that's it.

But we love design.

We are the kind of persons who fall in love with a well mounted magazine, the kind who take pictures of graphical lines in shadows or even the kind who lose speech skills facing a terrific poster.

And we are Mauritians, like it or not, Mauritius is moving. So we try to focus the maximum on the Mauritian designers and artists.

When I was at university, I learn to make the difference between art and design and foremost graphic design and the other design. And one day I came up with this simplistic conclusion that graphic design was only to make things nice to the eye. Maybe people make you feel this way when you say that you are a graphic designer and that they are all OHHHH that fun and unofficial and all.

But in fact the design, graphic design is not that. No designer should be taken down to only that!

You Designer, You Graphic Designer, You are a Voice, a challenging step in all creation. Your imprint will be the one determining if a product will work or not, if your packaging, your logo, your typography will strike, will succeed.

We might not be nurses, surgeons, or firemen, we do not save lives, but we communicate. We communicate in the simplest form that humans does. Visually. As children who draw on wall, as minds who seeks catharsis, as people who do not know how to read or people who read all day. We communicate with images that make things move.

Long live to design

Etc