Wasteland: an inspiring documentary

A friend recommended to see this documentary and I'm glad we did. I watched it a few weeks ago and I still think of it often. It's so beautiful to see how art can change peoples life, and in this movie literally. It's a very moving documentary about the people who work in the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Together with artist Vic Muniz they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage (around 50m2 on the floor), that reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives.

Final Magna photographic print entitled “The Gypsy Magna–Pictures of Garbage”                                  

View down onto Irma’s portrait on the floor, here you can see the scale very well.                               

Close-up of Irma’s face in portrait

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Photographs by Vik Muniz, courtesy of Vik Muniz Studio

Steel cabinets by JSPR

I'm really into steel cabinets lately. I love that you can make composition of your favorite things within a frame. This modern handmade interpretation by JSPR is just amazing! How the forms are attached to another it becomes a cabinet skyscraper…

Definitely a piece on my wish list.

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Living blue

The theme of the Histor house during the Elle inside design was light, air and space. Everything was painted in different colors of blue and turquoise. I love blue a lot, in fashion as well, it so easy to combine. Blue is my black.

Pictures by Rosa van den Kerkhof & Kleurinspiratie.nl

Raw graphic

During my search for graphic inspiration I found the work of Jesse Harris. It's a corporate identity for a fishmonger where the designer combines illustration work with his love for packaging design and innovative branding. I love the simplicity. It's very clear and with a touch of vintage because of the brown paper. Very beautiful.

source Jesse Harris

Color inspiration

Autumn is almost there, the last sunny days and then all the colors will change.
I think this color pallet translates this autumn feeling perfectly, don't you think?

                                                                     Source Histor

My recent project: A restaurant makeover

We had to create a new restaurant with a tight budget (no budget to buy new chairs), quite a challenge. The owners are very happy with the result. And the best thing is, busy times are back again and that was the goal of this new concept and big change.

 The inspiration moodboard for the new mediterranean concept

The interior moodboard

The restaurant is situated in an old doctors house and the restaurant is spread over several rooms that each have there own color scheme.

 

In the attic the owners will create a room where people can smoke, pour their own drinks and play their favorite records. This is the inspiration moldboard.

Restaurant Diverso

This is the ocean colored room with yellow accents in the photo collages I made. This room is connected to the yellow room.

I created these collages with inspiring images that remind me of a warm south european summer. It's to create an atmosphere that's more then just good food. We printed them on large canvases

This is the restaurant before the makeover. 


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Beautiful hues of Indonesia

Photography © Rosa van den Kerkhof

This music makes me happy this monday...

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A surprising end of our trip in Jakarta

We traveled the last weeks trough Indonesia and we planned to end the trip in a beautiful resort in the tea fields near Lembang, but that turned out to be a disaster so we catched a train and went to the Morrissey hotel in Jakarta, and it turned out to be a great place! The interior design of the room was nice and spacious with black industrial lightning, a white painted brick wall and a concrete ceiling! It was lovely to end the trip in a stylish hotel with a good and clean bathroom. The lobby and study were great to, industrial with a touch of vintage, my cup of tea! And a morning swim in the rooftop pool was a great way to start our last day.

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Enjoying Bali and Lombok, I will be back within a few weeks

Moodboards, Moodboards & Moodboards

I've made so many moodboards lately. I really love doing this, it's like making a puzzle and at some point you've got it and you feel it's just right, great feeling! Made this inspiration for a coffee corner.

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The result of my first freelance job: Moodboards for KLM

Photography and work © Rosa van den Kerkhof