Escama- Environmental Designer

Escama Studio is based in California and Brazil producing a handcrafted range of womans bags using one main material - recycled aluminium tabs. Escama descovered a way to crochet tabs together creating bags, accessories even clothing now, it is a technique used in brazil mainly. A whole 70,000 of these bags have been produced since 2004 and the artist team has grown from 12 to 100!

Escama's inspiration originated from the Pop Top Fashions of the 70's where can tabs were in the form of pop tops and were pulled completely off the can and some people used them to make quirky hats and accessories.

I found this really cool tutorial on how to crochet can tabs together check it out with this link: http://www.escamastudio.com/how_to.html

Images found at: http://www.escamastudio.com/products.html

Umbrella Inspiration

My inspiration these past few weeks has been UMBRELLAS! 
They are simply beautiful.
Lace umbrellas, frilly cabaret umbrellas, upside down umbrellas, any out of the ordinary umbrellas really.
Their shape, structure and the amount of different designs just amazes me and inspires many thoughts in my mind that I've been relating to my designs recently.

I found these really pretty umbrella images at: http://vi.sualize.us/theduchess/umbrella/

Both of these came from this following website i find both structurally intriguing! http://www.fashion-stylist.net/blog/tag/_umbrellas_/