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What’s Inspiring Me – Volume 13

While we were visiting the Czech Republic we found a new sport and got hooked. After a few months of sightseeing in museums, castles, and all of the other amazing sites Prague has to offer, my mom surprised us with tickets to something we had never seen before: a hockey game. We went to see one...

Art and Design, CULTURE

February 20, 2016

What’s Inspiring Me – Volume 12

Prague has been my inspiration this week. With the weather starting to get warmer I find myself wishing I was back in the cool cobblestone streets of this gorgeous city. The smell of fresh trdelniks in the air and the sound of trams whizzing on their tracks. I miss the bohemian attitude and watching the people...

Art and Design, CULTURE

February 13, 2016

What’s Inspiring Me – Volume 11

Valentine’s day is a day of the year dedicated to people in love. Therefore, it is the one day of the year to indulge in the most romantic things. For women that means bubble baths, lacy clothing, and a lot of diamonds! Those are the exact things that have been inspiring me this week. I believe...

Art and Design, CULTURE

February 6, 2016

What’s Inspiring Me – Volume 10

As you already know, the beginning of the year means movie award season, and a year filled with amazing new films. Last year there were some pretty great films made, my favorite being The Revenant staring Leonardo DiCaprio. I was happy to see a movie like this one, with a meaningful plot and developed characters. It is a great...

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December 12, 2015

What’s Inspiring Me – Volume 9

Another weekend of Christmas, and another weekend of inspiring photos, quotes, days, and nights. I must confess that I do have a slight puppy addiction and if I could have one christmas wish, it would be to save all animals that are going extinct and give all animals in general a natural home where they could run and...

Art and Design, CULTURE

December 5, 2015

What’s Inspiring Me – Volume 8

It’s the first weekend of December and that alone has been inspiring me! I have decided to make every weekend of this month Christmas themed until Christmas day. So to start with the first week, I have been completely in love with all things winter including snowflakes, ballet, blue tinted lights, and Christmas shopping. Everywhere I...

Art and Design, CULTURE

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December 2, 2015

Prague’s Whizzing Red Trams by Clare Caulfield

Clare Caulfield is an artist based in Yorkshire, England. Her art is inspired by her travels to various cities around the world. Her distinctively styled artworks features the architecture of cities such as New York, Paris, Rome, Istanbul, and Sydney. Her collection of Prague illustrations capture the bustling pavements and whizzing red trams of the...

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November 21, 2015

What’s Inspiring Me – Volume 7

Beige suede is a resent obsession of mine, especially on cold days. Pink skies have been a big inspiration. Also, sandy beaches and deserts have been very calming since we’ve started walking on the beach every night at sunset. Plus I have always wanted to go see Namibia, Africa where the desert literally meets the sea…...

Art and Design, CULTURE

November 12, 2015

Karel Svolinsky’s Sweetest Illustrations

Karel Svolinsky was a famous, well, everything! Ask any Bohemian exactly what Karel Svolinsky was and be prepared for multiple answers. This is because he had so many talents, and unlike most people, decided to use them all. He is known to be a painter, graphic designer, illustrator, typographer, font creator, stage designer, and university lecturer. Though...

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October 27, 2015

Toys and Figures by Libuše Niklová

Libuše Niklová was one of Czechoslovakia’s most important toy designers during the 1960s and 70s. The toys which she designed were lightweight, original, and artistic. Beginning in the 1950s, she revolutionized toy design with her simple plastic forms. She believed that plastic toys were the future and often brought home the toys she designed for...

Art and Design, CULTURE

October 25, 2015

Venus on Strip Street by Ladislav Sutnar

The last few weeks, we’ve been posting the amazing work of Ladislav Sutnar. Ladislav Sutnar (1897-1976) was one of the first designers to actively practice in the field of information design and information architecture. His work was based on rationality and the process of displaying massive amounts of information in a concise and organized way...

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October 25, 2015

Karel Teige’s Jazz Age Alphabet

Abecada is the result of a collaboration between Czech artist Karel Teige and Czech dancer Milča Mayerová. Karel Teige was a Czech avant-garde artist, designer, and spokesperson for Devetsil, an association of Czech avant-garde artists founded in Prague in the 1920s. A graphic artist, typographer, and photographer, Teige was a major figure throughout the 1920s....

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October 24, 2015

What’s Inspiring Me – Volume 6

The halloween vibe has been inspiring me this week. Where I live it is just now starting to get cold and I have really been getting into the mood for all things fall. Right now Europe and Masquerades have been at the top of my list. I’ve been in love with simple lace masks, and...

Art and Design, CULTURE

October 22, 2015

David Cerny – Giant Bronze Babies

In Prague there is art wherever you go. You can stop by any grocery store and find sculptures. Walk down any street and you are most likely to see a band preforming traditional Czech music on accordions, basses, and saxophones. But there are only two places you can see the sculptures we are talking about...

Art and Design, Bohemians, CULTURE

October 17, 2015

What’s Inspiring Me – Volume 5

Another week means more things that are inspiring me. I recently went to the movie theatre to see Mission Impossible Rogue Nation and it was amazing. It seems that the more movies they make, the better they get! What I really loved about Rogue Nation was that Tom Cruise did all of his own stunts...

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October 17, 2015

The Art of Antonin Prochazka

Antonin Prochazka was born on June 5, 1882 at Vážany u Vyškova and died on June 9, 1945 in Brno. He was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator. His work early on was expressionist, as the other members of The Eight influenced him, mostly Edvard Munch. Then, he gradually moved towards cubism. After 1925, he left cubism...

Art and Design, Bohemians, CULTURE

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