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What else if not a design? Being a designer, an artist, an architect  are not a job. This is life. At least that is  what happens with me and all of my familiar representatives of art. Have you got free time? - Yes! This is a great opportunity for self-development: visiting various exhibitions, studying "what a new  has come up with", engaging in a project " for oneself". And now I would share these moments with you.

Presentation of the "Tarkett" company.

"Tarkett" organizes meetings quite often, almost every month, and they find interesting topics for presentations each time. At the last meeting, that was at 20th of July, it was about what will be fashionable in the world of interior design at 2018. Speaking in general, all trends can be combined into several groups: Eco Design, Geometry and Graphics, Watercolor and Blur, Art Deco.

The first group - Eco Design. It will be traced at everything: the texture of natural materials, tropical prints, natural colors and shades, crafting things - anything that somehow associates with nature.

Watercolor and blur, personally from me, are associated with the times of Marie Antoinette and the French cookies - macaroons. The trend will be all pastel shades; airiness, lightness and overflows; translucent, "flying" fabrics; tenderness and playfulness. All of this is inherent in Scandinavian design, so the design of northern people does not go away, but goes to the new stage!

By the way, when we talked about Scandinavian design, we remembered about the new collection of IKEA, which was released at early August. The guests noticed that the new collection has much more color than the previous one, that the Swedes are increasingly boldly turning to deep and rich colors. For example, the updated series "Stockholm" looks, well, not really Scandinavian in the usual sense.

If we talks about geometry and graphics, the trend is not new, and it is widespread everywhere already now. Nevertheless, we expecte that the forms will become more complicated, combinations of different matrices will be more and more unexpected, and all this will occur not only in the plane, but also in volume.

It remains to be said about the "regeneration" of the Art Deco style. It is also not new and now it comes to the interior design, rather, with the form of bright elements, which should masterfully fit into another style, for example, to the loft. Gold is used very actively now. We notice it especially in combinations of different materials. The trend of decor will be pink and red copper.

In general, the main trend of all design is the synergy of all styles and riuts. It applies everywhere now. We can say that 95% of all projects, that I see and what I doing myself, are the absence of a "pure" style as such. And the skill of the designer will much higher when the combinations are more complex and unexpected. Design moves from stylistic, when we could say: It's a loft and it's a classic"; to the design of perception, when we say: "It evokes a feeling of lightness and calmness, and it's brutal and bold".

These things were discussed at the presentation of "Tarkett". Of course, there were also shown examples of future collections of flooring at the end of the event. The company "Tarkett" will go to the way of active promotion of vinyl cover. There will be different colors and modules, also they will not forget about classical collections.

As I said earlier, such events are very useful, because it  gives us a kind of impulse to want to consider something absolutely new, to learn about the latest news, because everything in the world of design is so rapidly developing and changing. If you don't follow it, you can be " out of subject".

Visiting the salon of decorative plaster.

Designers certainly knows about the possibilities of plastering and artists (I'm not afraid of this word) who works with it. But looking at the sites examples and seeing, touching the samples "in real" is quite another thing.

Usually, a huge number of samples are collected at the shops selling plaster, because for each project an example should be made and approved necessarily.

Shops hold individual and group master classes, where it shows and tells us how the process of creating a particular surface occurs happen. And I think that it is worth attending such events from time to time, especially if the creative crisis has overtaken. This statement was verified personally, because at the day of my visit my head was full of thoughts about the last project and that design does not work out, there is no inspiration. After several hours of master class and walk through the workshop, finally "a light came on in my head" and the project was continued and completed.

Those, who are not familiar with plaster still, I can say:

"You should forget the typical plaster coating pattern. Plaster now - it's all what you can think of and a little more".     

Masters can imitate absolutely any surface and create whole pictures, panels, reliefs.

For example, a stone (marble, travertine, onyx - any shade and texture)

Or maybe you have a loft-style design? Then it's streaks, roughness, scratches and, of course, concrete.

It is possible to create any patterns and surfaces as wallpapers, decorate wooden furniture.

Also, in large salons of decorative coatings, there are usually skilled craftsmens who can create different compositions according to designs sketches.

So  you can create and invent… At the modern variety of materials, any of your ideas can be realized.

And the last thing I would like to tell you is - what a designers does, if they do not work with a working project. They are improving their skills.

Today the everyone needs a universal worker. Employers appreciate workers who can come up with, and submit, and calculate, and draw. And this is not only at the field of design. For example programmers have an excellent name for the profession. It's "full stack developer". They can do both server applications and client applications. In simple terms, at the factory such a person could perform a full cycle of work or, more importantly, would be an excellent mentor.

The chief designer should be able to develop a design, to go through the planning and sketching stage, be able to competently build all this in a 3d editor and at the same time know perfectly the construction of light, materials, settings, design the project and provide an adequate engineering part. The designer now is not just a man with imagination and taste, it is a man of modern technologies.

That's why I open various materials, tutorials, I read forums of 3D-specialists when I have free time. Often I do some tasks on accessible courses. Sometimes it can be completely unrelated with the design at first glance.

For example, I finished the 3D model of a robot with rigging and animation of various devices not so long ago.

What for?

Look at the picture below.

What are the differences between these objects? No any. Both of it consists of a grid of polygons, both of it can be textured and integrated into scenes and both of it are created at the same program.

It is improvement and hone of  the skills of modeling objects. It is completely impossible to know everything in 3D, but a guarantee of professionalism is to study the various resources of the program and  study from the masters.