Category Archives: Interviews

“Make Room for the Child in Us”: Interview with Illustrator Irina Dobrescu

In our interview, illustrator Irina Dobrescu gives an insight into her creative process, sharing her experiences, challenges and doubts, and talks about why it is important to forget what you have learned from time to time, why acyclic and gouache are the medium she prefers at the moment, and why we should all remain children at heart. Read More →

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“I Am Essentially Painting Light Using Colour”: Interview with Painter and Designer Flora Roberts

Flora Roberts’ paints with colour and light and feeling. Her paintings bring you close to nature, their realistic quality storing emotion and excitement to look at and to be enwrapped by. But they also seem to be filled with an imaginative space where the viewer can play in and dream. Read More →

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“The Creativity and Curiosity Are Already There in Most of Us”: Interview with Artist and Illustrator Øyvind Torseter

Illustration from the book “Mulegutten” (The Heartless Troll), Øyvind Torseter. Ink drawing, colouring in acrylic paint.     Mulegutten wakes up one day and discovers a mysterious hole in his apartment. It moves and seems to have a mind and … Read More →

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Slow Fashion Moves Us Forward: Interview with Delia Brad, Founder of She’s Linen

Photography by Denisa Coman for She’s Linen. Modelling by actress Aida Economu     Beautiful is a word I don’t use lightly. Because I believe beauty can not be defined easily or stereotyped. Beautiful is not the one blessingly bestowed … Read More →

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Interview with Avatar Costume Designer Deborah L. Scott: “The Process Is the Same. You Build the Character!”

Costume undergoes its own groundbreaking evolution in Avatar: The Way of Water while still operating within the mise en scène as an aid of character and narrative. In a unique filmmaking effort, Deborah L. Scott invented a new costume paradigm. Read More →

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