Category: Design is Destiny

Combining water color painting with love of watches and bracelets

My love for bracelets and watches has led to a new photo hobby, that of wrist-shots, which is obsessive, no doubt about it.  Combining this with a love of water color painting is particularly fun.

George Washington and BlackBelt braceletMy bracelets have been getting enough compliments in the last year that I’ve opened a store at http://www.vinchesidesigns.com, come visit if you are interested.

DeepBlue>Wood.1

This bracelet design for the DeepBlue series came out of a desire to change the color tone (more brown, less blue, less black) and it was surprising to see beads made of wood go so well with stone beads (the agate-blue beads of the DeepBlue design).

But it worked out and at times I cannot distinguish which beads are stone and which are wood without looking very closely.  Very unexpected, and fun.

DeepBlue-Wood Ensemble with FC718.VinchesiDesigns

My bracelets have been getting enough compliments in the last year that I’ve opened a store at http://www.vinchesidesigns.com, come visit if you are interested.

DeepBlue>Original.1

This bracelet was my first design break-through: it is centered on an extraordinary agate blue stone that evokes the earth and its oceans.  The DeepBlue>Original design integrates the blue agate with black onyx and silver pieces in a visually interesting 4 / 3 pattern.

Creating visual interest while adhering to a pattern — in this case two of them that occupy the same space — is this bracelet’s core appeal: a repeating pattern of four elements is interrupted by another pattern whose repetition is in threes

The effect is one of consistent variation: sometimes the blue stones are together, and sometimes they are separated by the silver pieces (the same is true for the onyx elements).

VinchesiDesigns.DeepBlue.white cuff

My bracelets have been getting enough compliments in the last year that I’ve opened a store at http://www.vinchesidesigns.com, come visit if you are interested.

Spanish Doors

You have to love the gorgeous design sensibilities of doors on homes in Spain.

Spanish door2

There are so many things going on in them: planks of different sizes and shapes, rivets in various patterns, handles at various levels, and the lower third made of different material in a non-uniform shape.

Here is another one:

Spanish door1

The Marketer’s Dilemma

Whenever I see a product like this, I sympathize with the business people who are under pressure to liven up a product category.

RiceKrispies

I grew up eating Rice Krispies — perhaps every day for years — and so the brand has deep resonance for me despite our household being mostly organic at this point. When I saw this crazy packaging recently I couldn’t believe it existed.

Can you imagine the meetings that led to this promotion? Starting with “How do we give people something new?” and continuing through “…which shades of green….?”