10 Major Health Changes I've Made Which Drastically Improved My Life
First of all, I need to apologise to my body for not taking good care of it during my university years after leaving home. I was probably one of the bad ones; from eating bad, to drinking too often, to...
View ArticleGetting Personal At The O2 With J. Cole
It has been three days since I saw J. Cole live and it is still taking some time to sink in!I never expected to see my favourite artist in real life but I was lucky enough to catch his Forest Hills...
View ArticleEurovision, Courgette Cake Recipe, & Canary Wharf
Over the bank holiday weekend my friend Lisa and I went to our friend Pravin's new apartment which he recently settled, just around the corner from Canary Wharf with a great view over looking the area....
View ArticleInspiring Company
You become like the 5 people you spend the most time with.This is true; and I feel like more so as we get older. As we mature, the type of time we spend with friends change. Instead of seeing each...
View Article8 InDesign Tips That Will Save Your Time & Print Jobs
IMG via erinlancasterDespite having used InDesign so much in the last 5 years that sometimes when I close I eyes I see the canvas, and sometimes want to press Ctrl+Z in real life to undo something, I'm...
View ArticleNew Collab: Les Femmes Collectives
Two of my closest friends J & A; smart, motivated, career driven (so driven one has been taken all over the world on business class at 22 for work, and the other, billboard girl at AUT) and ones I...
View ArticleINSPIRED: Super Foods Volume 2
As a trilogy to my 10 Major Health Changes & Korean Skincare post, I have some additional findings to add!Please don't ask why I am currently (and maybe from now) obsessed and interested in the...
View ArticleMen With Ideas: Simpleton & Re-fold
One year after graduation and the diversion begins to grow between graduates on their respective design pursuits. I have utter respect and envy towards two groups of guys especially, who I graduated...
View ArticleSpecial Edition 'Inspiration Finder' Print
I have always dreamt of turning 24, ever since I was young. I'm unsure why this is, maybe the number is pretty! So as a designer as I turn 24 this September, I thought I would create something special,...
View ArticleThe Grill & Glow Diet
IMG via honestlyyum.comIt's barely a diet, but I literally just came up with the title as I wrote this post. It's a very simple diet inspired by my flatmate (who is currently suffering through Ramadan)...
View Article10 Most Inspiring Brands & Designers
From editorial to art direction, menswear, illustration and photography, here is a list of my 10 personal favourites that have lightly or heavily influenced and inspired my creative directions for the...
View ArticleGLOSSIER & Glycerin
Two things I have been loving lately is US skincare brand Glossier, and the sugar alcohol ingredient, Glycerin. The two go hand in hand though, as it was Glossier talking about their brand's skin focal...
View ArticleThe Influence of Strangers While One Travels Solo
For people who have experienced the hostel life, or a working holiday life, they will know what it’s like to make, meet and have new friends on a daily basis with who you’re sharing a room with for the...
View Article10 Things to Know and Love about Paris
Paris is and was many things to many people, and especially to me in terms of creative inspiration! The city really is as magic and charming as everyone makes it out to be, and here are some things I...
View ArticleHow Commitment Shapes Your Life
'Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you chose to make. Your commitments can develop you or they can destroy you. Either way, they will define you.'What commitments do you chose to...
View ArticleJULY reads: Mentors & Inspiration
I am a firm believer that reading about success breeds it, or it is the beginning of the road anyway.Two books of the moment which I recommend: From Failure to Fearless, and Getting There: A Book of...
View ArticleNEW SS16 Prints - A Reflection Of The Last Season
'It's all about the hustle' - an inspirational print for an even harder worker year to come.Hustle is a print I've created to reflect our 20's, a decade in which I along with many of my acquaintances...
View ArticleOn Wanderlust
Painting by Federico Saenz RecioSo at the end of 23, and the end of my year abroad and away from real life, I have found some pretty wonderful things in life. Things that make me see normal things...
View ArticleMy First Boss, Mentor, and Inspiration
On the week of my graduation ceremony at the end of my undergrad studies, I did not know that my work would attract and be spotted by an ex Art Director of Saatchi and Saatchi.Mr Belt felt strongly...
View ArticleMeeting New York
I am forever glad and grateful that I chose Europe, chose London for my OE; the harvest I reaped from that is irreplaceable and extremely valuable to me this lifetime. However, after returning for just...
View ArticleMayors of London and New York Say Fashion Means Business
via Business of FashionSnapshots from NYFW As fashion month began in New York this week, the CFDA and the BFC pulled in political heavyweights Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York, and Boris Johnson,...
View ArticleA List of Spring Inspiration
Here are a few things that have inspired me greatly this Spring:2016 Fashion WeekHeath Ledgers death & his acting process during The Dark Knight (see his diary he kept here)Graphic Design for...
View ArticleMuseum of Four in the Morning
A memorable and light-hearted TED talk, and one of my favourites! By Rives. Visit the museum here, you can watch his talk below:
View ArticleIn Vogue: The Editor's Eye
"Fashion to me is a reflection of culture and of the world now. A fashion editor senses what is going on around the world and translates that into a fashion story.""(A fashion editorial) attempts to...
View ArticleThe China Edit: Alibaba Singles' Day Record
I am unsure how being single has to do with shopping, I guess being reminded of it on China's popular un-valentine's day of 11:11 (November 11th) makes peope want to shop their misery away.via Business...
View ArticleFor the Dreamers, Wanderers, & Lovers
"I am one of those searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we completely content. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk...
View ArticleHappy 2016
Top of the Cable Car, Wellington. January 2016.Life is about happiness, dreams, passion & creativity. And most of all, endless fireworks and shooting stars ❤ happy Twenty Sixteen and may your year...
View ArticleWhy Traveling Matters
Traveling matter because it's hard to evolve when your surroundings never change and if you are looking to become a better human, you have to lose yourself in new surroundings in order to find another...
View ArticleThings One Does at 24
Coming home and being surrounded by a mass bunch of my early 20's friends, here are the things myself and others around me are doing, at twenty four.Falling in love, falling out of love, making plans,...
View ArticleOn Inspiration
via Pinterest.When I went to Paris, I experienced my first ever hit, or jolt, of inspiration. This is a thing, which I have been reading about in 'Big Magic' and when experienced (if lucky), one feels...
View ArticleFor the Girls with Wildfires in their Hearts
I never imagined myself to be one with a heart so hungry to see the world, to be inspired, get lost out there and crave difference, newness, and the adrenaline of a completely unrecognisable place,...
View ArticleThe One
This isn't a post about meeting a very special guy, but one dedicated to the one man up above. Something about walking into Chapter Four of my 'new beginning' back in Wellington, I felt God just say,...
View ArticleFashion & 2016
Studying fashion in 2016 was a dream come true for me. I've always been interested and dreamt of being a fashion designer and after being exposed to so much art, fashion and architecture in Europe, I...
View ArticleWellington, The City of Romance
I'm a romantic, for sure. The typical girl who loves surprises, romantic gifts and dates, flowers etc. (even asking her boyfriends to buy her flowers!) That being said, I fell in love with Paris when I...
View ArticleA Sure Thing
I'm in a great environment right now where I am surrounded by so many amazing people on fire, and in love with God. Influencing and contagious, yet I am on my own personal journey of growth and...
View ArticleMy Love for People
I have always been an extrovert, a typical ENFP. When I was a child, I used to go with my dad to dinners and gatherings with his colleagues and friends. We would go to karaoke, and they all called me...
View ArticleNot A Fan
"Most of us don’t mind Jesus making some minor change in our lives but Jesus wants to turn our lives upside down. Fans don’t mind him doing a little touch-up work, but Jesus wants to complete...
View ArticleA Dreamer, An Artist, A Creative
What a great time it is when one still has the ability and heart to dream. They say that most people die inside by 25, yet I feel like I am just starting to live!As the end of my Fashion Diploma draws...
View ArticleThe Waiting Room
So often in life, we pass through mediocre, still and silent periods. Times when we are leaving one island or chapter in life, and moving forwards onto the next. But I have found that it is during...
View Article少女时代 // 25 Things About Turning 25
Only in the beginning of this year I was writing about all the things I was doing at 24, but suddenly I'm 25, and life is definitely a whole lot different, in a good way. I used to be so afraid of...
View ArticleLove Letters
My journey of falling in love with GOD this year has been beautiful. In many ways, like a painting, a love story.I always feel that as a girl/female who develops a relationship with God, it is...
View ArticleExperience Desire
Perhaps growing up in the YOLO/FOMO generation, I am a typical young person who has a fear of missing out. Fear or no fear, I can say I am someone who loves, desires, and craves experience, in most...
View ArticleCity of Dreams // New Beginnings
A week ago I had put my foot down to leave Wellington, for good. After the earthquake, my family wanted to move to Australia, and especially with my mum being so dead worried for my safety and future...
View ArticleEverything Moves With You
This year, I have experienced the revelation of how quickly things can change, and how quickly a person can change. In my spiritual perspective, I see it in the way that how God changes people, does...
View ArticleEccentric Influences of an Artist
Recently, I renovated my bathroom. Not going to lie, but with all the silverware, art, roses, marble bench and perfume, the dingy, dark bathroom I moved into at the beginning of the year now looks like...
View ArticleHey! Content Marketing is the New Age
So my Christmas break has been spent sleeping 12 hours per night, plus an addition 2 hour nap daily, painting portraits till midnight, getting into my gym routine and lifting a lot of weights.. not...
View ArticleBullet Journalling Might Change Your Life
IMG via The Wall Street Journal Starting my 2017 with Bullet Journalling is making quite an impact. It's only been 10 days, and I feel the semi ADD, OCD, and creative thoughts racing inner me is...
View ArticleWith 500 Million Active Daily Users, Why Isn't Your Business On Instagram?...
According to recent statistics, 500 million users engage on Instagram daily. 80% of users are from outside the United States and 95 million images and videos are uploaded every day! That's a huge...
View ArticleExplosive 2017
This is a breakthrough year.As I find myself constantly being burnt through the furnace and pushed to my limits of pressure, I come out of every trial, shinier.I truly feel one of my favorite song...
View ArticleThe 4 Colors of Successful Branding & Marketing
Green Brain, Blue Oceans, The Purple Cow, and the Red Lovemark. Most people in the design, marketing, or sales industry would have heard a few of these. What do they mean? And how can you condense...
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