International Online Shopping: Careful what you wish for!
I love online shopping. For me, nothing can beat the convenience of sitting comfortably at my desk, looking at a large selection of interesting wares, being able to compare prices […]
Inspiration for Creative Textile Designs: from “Bombacha” to City Park
What do Brazilian bombachas – the traditional pants of Brazilian gauchos – have in common with a walk in the park? Though it may not immediately seem so, there is a fairly […]
Clarity and Mystery … the secret to good design?
Graphics Designer Chip Kidd identifies good design by putting it to a test. Good design can be clear or mysterious. What really matters, however, is that it is usefully clear or mysterious.
Less is More
Less is more. I looked at the statement my mom put in front of me for “impromptu speech training” (I have a competition at the end of the week, and […]
Adventures of a Fengshui Layman
My friend and fellow blog writer Sabine asked me to write a piece about fengshui, mostly because she either laughs or shakes her head in disbelief whenever I declare that […]
Moodboards: An easy yet effective way to communicate design ideas and vision
Digital moodboards help develop and share design ideas. Online apps such as olioboard offer easy to use tools to create fairly realistic visions of future designs.
Organic Design
Science fiction. Some people hate it, some love it, and many are impartial to the genre, but the overall aesthetic has been drilled into us by hollywood movie layered on […]
Indonesian Ikat – Inspiration for My Interior; What’s Yours?
As Sabine, my co-author (and her daughter Natasha) will tell you, I have been meaning to write this blog but got caught up in the post-summer, back-to-reality scrambling around of […]
Rendering with Copic Markers!
Tahoe, CA. The sun had barely scraped the horizon, scattering myriads of shimmering crystals on the surface of the lake when my mother and I stepped foot on a dusty […]
So, your style is … Peruvian?
When we met in Tahoe recently, for some reason my long-term friend Alexia and I came to discuss our respective interior design styles. No doubt, we tend to dress up […]
KaSa Global Interiors 