Bad news knocked on the door last weekend. Maybe it’s not so bad because I still don’t understand what happened. Yes it is about my new little toy Canon 7D. I was working whole summer long to buy it and now the camera won’t turn on. Why? What happened?

During photo shooting with Elen a weekend before it turned off and we had to break off and sadly go home. I came home and recharged the battery. Green light and it turned on. I was so so happy, like I got a baby. I downloaded photos, edited and uploaded some of. Then I had to pack my stuff for moving to Novi Sad. Whole madness.

I moved to Novi Sad, Serbia three day ago. The city is cool and everything is fine but I’ll publish another post about that. Beside I was a speaker at BlogOpen 2010, here in Novi Sad, I also supposed to be official photographer and catch everything around this awesome event. It was Friday morning and I still thought 7D is all right. Before the shooting with aprons for BlogOpen I went for a photo walk and when I tried to turn my camera on, again the same story, it won’t turn on. I couldn’t believe! I was crying that night.

I was searching for the answer. Maybe it’s about the battery or battery charger. Hope it’s nothing serious. The camera was bought from UK, brand new and it’s only 2 months old. 3 year guarantee is fine but I have to send it to UK. If there is another way I’d like to try it. I need it back! Can somebody help me?

In 2009, Little & Company reached 30 years of creating, inspiring and being inspired. We decided it was time to commemorate our longevity and success. So we turned to those who keep us fascinated in this industry.

I’m following design world more and more every month and I love it. It’s a really interesting and creative topic at all. Little & Company sought out the world’s most creative professionals and asked 30 of them to record their thoughts on design. “What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?”. They also did this last year and it became a huge global conversation through social networks. Visit the site and watch their answers!

Didn’t you always wanted to design and make your own piece of clothing? My Slovenian friends Biljana Janković and Kristina Berčič have something to share with you, enjoy the story.

Last weekend City Art Gallery Ljubljana and Socialdress had an amazing workshop, but how the story begins. The link between gallery and Socialdress started because way back in the time these wide trousers were being warn in Paris for the first time, not too much behind them were the first ladies from Ljubljana who started wearing that kinda revolutionary trousers. In history at the exact gallery where this workshop took place, used to be a shop where they were selling these trousers.

Amazing one day long workshop that brings out your creativity to the fullest and at the end you end up laughing for no special reason. I chose to make one out of jeans. Love them, took me awhile but they’re just the most comfortable trousers ever. My friend made one out of jersey, also very comfortable and stylish. I love days like this. Full of creativity and hanging out with great people!

The author of Socialdress Marija Mojce Pungerčar uses the term “social dress” for clothing that has an integrative effect in terms of community. The Socialdress workshops spread knowledge about clothes making, at the same time reinforcing awareness about the consequences of globalization to the Slovenian textile industry, and about the gradual disappearance of craft skills. At Socialdress workshops they create functional items of clothing with a lot of soul that are easy to make as well. An important part of the workshops is an exchange of stories and experiences. In this way they create and propagate the Socialdress brand label. You cannot buy a Socialdress dress in a shop, you can only make it yourself.

If you are in Ljubljana, come and visit their work included into ”word for word without words” exhibition at City Art Gallery Ljubljana. It will be open till the end of October. Thank you girls!

Last days I’m working on a brand new experience of Die without Art blog, redesign. Before the launch I’m collecting and processing all important information of how people use my blog. Who they are and what they are looking for. I must admit this is really hard work. I’m reading a lot about design and user experience on the internet, and what is interesting, I’m not a web designer or any kind of a designer actually I’m a photographer and blogger, but I’m trying to do it all by myself. I need a very simple, clean and useful design for my blog. I was brainstorming till 5am last nights. I’m still drawing a new concept, testing different widths, colors and fonts. I’m learning how to use a pen tool in Adobe Illustrator, because I’ll need it for the logo.

Hope the near future will come with new pretty stuff and readers will enjoy totally new experience of Die without Art. If you wanna help feel free to leave your thoughts down below. By the way, why don’t you take a quick survey?

Photo © Rosie Hardy

Sky Nash is one amazing girl, actually my best online friend from the top of my wanna-meet list. She’s currently based in London studying a BA (Hons) Book Arts and Design. I’m talking with her almost every day and she sent me these three exclusive previews of how she started a new sketchbook. Pretty awesome. Visit her blog sky-n.blogspot.com for some more work and fresh updates.

By the way this is the hundredth post on Die without Art and I’m giving a little but special respect to Sky. Love!

After launching the 8×10 blogs & tea and getting so many requests for a coffee print, I decided to design this one. Perfect for a kitchen , office, coffee lovers or even a bedroom! This color is called ESPRESSO. It’s a beautifully, rich dark brown with some subtle highlights in light tan on the coffee cup.

Lovely Jen Ramos, the owner of MadebyGirl is making pretty designs, such as posters, cards and different prints, using recycled, post consumer paper with the hopes of creating a positive change in others. You probably saw her work somewhere on the web. She loves colors so much, because color is for her the most personal and emotional element of design. You can buy this print for only $25 from her online shop.

Bubullina thank you for the link (;

This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.

“Making Future Magic” is the goal of Dentsu London, the creative communications agency. BERG made this film with them to explore this statement. They developed a specific photographic technique for this film. Using long exposures they recorded an iPad moving through space to make three-dimensional forms in light. Each frame is a long exposure photograph of 3-6 seconds. 5,500 photographs were taken. Only half of these were used for the animations seen in the final edit of the film.

Amazing work, like the future is really here.

In EVERYDAY MAGAZINE we put the people before the work, not the work before the people. In fact, we don’t show you any works at all.

Everyday Magazine is a magazine created by Mikael Floysand as a semester assignment at Westerdals School of Communication. It’s about graphic designers and other creatives, focusing on the people behind the works rather than the work itself. That’s important here! You can download the first issue of Everyday Magazine as a PDF from Mikael’s site.

We feel that the magazine, an analogue format in a digital world, should function more as a calmer storyteller, rather than doing on paper what the internet already does for free without consuming our planets valuable forests.

This is the first magazine of this type that I have ever seen, full of behind scenes with the the focus on traditional journalism & photojournalism. The magazine features interviews with Your Friends, Uglylogo & Ian Albinson.

There is a note on the back page about next issue summer 2010, is that true? Or it’s just a semester assignment?

I always wanted to write more about my friends, especially about my online friends that I still haven’t met in person. That’s for me the best way of interaction. Ines Perković (also-known-as December Sun) is one of them and I could really write about each photo she uploads to her Flickr photostream, but let’s do it officially :P Here is a tactic: 1) Create a group on Flickr 2) Invite her to a group. 3) Let all members submit their creative shots! 4) Catch her :P

As you maybe already read on Die without Art, Ines is a 25-year-old (she says, but I don’t think so) amateur photographer, a radical Nikon shooter from Croatia. Had to mention… I’m also living in Croatia, but on the coast — I hope I’ll meet her soon!

Isn’t todays featured crazy moment awesome? Don’t worry you can also submit your crazy moment(s) to my Flickr group CRAZY MOMENTS …or maybe FEELING THE LIGHT and the official group DIE WITHOUT ART (all three groups are available for your submissions). Waiting for your new creative, thank you Ines (;

I found Helmut’s work a few months ago, and actually… this post was waiting in drafts for some time now. Helmut Smits is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In this creative public spaces set he placed Lacoste, ING and Puma logos on various locations in The Netherlands. Wild idea! Erin also wrote about his impromptu rainbow made from acrylic paint attached to a windshield wiper. Interesting artist!

Waiting for your new surprises :P