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Cross stitch installation for a faux ceiling and Yarn installation for a window display.

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Each month, Miranda van den Heuvel talks to creative people in Luxembourg and says "look, Luxembourg is creative! Here's how and where!" The July talk is with Gabriela Pinaud, creative director of her own studio offering various creative services.
Creativity to me is the art of finding alternative solutions to everyday situations - thinking outside the box and finding new ways to express yourself. It can be through art, fashion and food, but also while doing everyday work, raising children and how we react and express feelings. Creativity is in every one of us and can be used in every thinkable situation.

I'm a crafty person by nature, with an educational background in design and marketing. Today I work in visual merchandising and styling. My job requires that I execute different techniques depending on what the project needs. I prefer everything DIY even if it takes longer, and I get a lot of satisfaction through creating something myself. I'm constantly exploring new forms of creative expression and I'm more than happy to see it applied to a client's project. My main objective is to transform items (commercial spaces, event venues, etc) into a more aesthetic piece, through small and big details reflecting brands and clients' personalities.

3. Suggest a simple creative activity to our readers that can make them more creative

Creativity comes with practice; the more you exercise a technique, the easier it gets to come up with new ideas. I'd say that whatever it is that inspires you, start doing it now! Start following tutorials, recipes, instructions from books and at some point you will find yourself creating on your own.

4. What are your top 3 websites for creative inspiration?

Designlovefest.com for design and styling inspiration

HonestlyWTF.com for nice fashion editorials and DIYs

Spoonforkbacon.com for recipes and nice food styling
5. What are your 3 tips to become more creative in Luxembourg?
I would suggest attending an event at The Impactory, there you will find very creative minds working on new business ideas.

Also Lëtz go Local markets are the perfect place to meet great designers and get to know their products and services.

And in general the international athmosphere in this country is inspirational enough, having friends from all over the world really opens up your mind.

6. What's your suggestion to make Luxembourg a more creative, innovative place?

Initiatives like The Impactory or Lëtz go Local, as I mentioned before, are a great way to encourage and gather creative minds. I think there is a lot going on in Luxembourg in terms of creative projects, what's really missing are more spaces for these people to showcase their work. We need to create a strong and active community that is constantly working on behalf of our interests.
Gabriela Pinaud, interviewed by Miranda van den Heuvel, July 2014

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Each month, Miranda van den Heuvel talks to creative people in Luxembourg and says "look, Luxembourg is creative! Here's how and where!" The July talk is with Gabriela Pinaud, creative director of her own studio offering various creative services.

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layout of how the continuous line idea.

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quick drawing of how the board could be positioned on the wall and how text could be incorporated. i was also playing around with the type of font we could use and the layout of the elements.

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Use the different color of strings
to answer 5 simple questions.
What made you Think?
What made you Create?
What made you Angry?
What made you Happy?
What made you Change?

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WHAT MADE ME Interactive Public Installation

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Interactive installation exploring a concept of a large-scale visualisation of information.

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during high school we had sessions on continuous line in the aim that we would be more free and expressive with our drawing and stop trying to be perfectionists. i think continuous line helps people to relax about drawing and is also very fun it lets you play with drawing and the rule of you cant take your pen of the paper means you cant spend ages trying to create a masterpiece.

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has a variety of interactive activities.

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The uniform color palette of the exhibition is clearly evident as soon as you enter the exhibition. You also realize that every surface of the gallery has been altered by Sagmeister. Along with the clever graphic on the elevator doors, the up button is labeled "Adderall, Ritalin, Cocaine" and the down button, "Xanax, Valium, Percocet". The entrance of the gallery is blocked by a monolithic yellow machine that dispenses simple advices on how to be more happy.

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The Happy Show at MOCA - Minimally Minimal

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The uniform color palette of the exhibition is clearly evident as soon as you enter the exhibition. You also realize that every surface of the gallery has been altered by Sagmeister. Along with the clever graphic on the elevator doors, the up button is labeled "Adderall, Ritalin, Cocaine" and the down button, "Xanax, Valium, Percocet".

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Styn Flipper used a pinball machine to allow people to create one of a kind fun patterns by playing pingpong. unconventional and fun way of drawing that takes away the pressure of creating something 'good'

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Click to enlarge For his senior project, Dutch designer and typographer Sam van Doorn designed Styn. a deconstructed pinball machine reconstructed as a design tool. The idea behind the installation is that by creating new tools one is able to break free from standards in design.

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string typography exhibition

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Behind the scenes installing Pae White's work at the South London Gallery

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Pae White is an American artist best known for her large-scale, site-specific interventions. Working with a variety of media including aluminium, yarn, vinyl, birdseed, porcelain, paper and thread, White's work explores her interests in design, craft, architecture and elusive, fleeting moments.

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making pattern and lines with tape.

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mt ex 仙台展のメイキングムービーです。

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String Typography.

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Minneapolis-based street artist-and NYC frequenter- is known for his yarn-bombing typography, usually found on-but not limited to-chain link fences & telephone poles. Most often the words HOT TEA are geometrically spelled out, seemingly interlocked in three dimensions. I've run into several of his pieces over the past couple of years around NYC, one in Soho, another Nolita, and DUMBO as well. A couple of weeks ago, shortly after Banksy finished his month-long scavenger-hunt-like show around the city, I came across a tribute to the reknowned street artist by, I assume, HOT TEA, though this speculation is based soley on style. The piece, which was on East 4th Street, was gone in less than 24 hours replaced with a real estate sign by the owners of the empty lot where the work stood. I've looked around to see if this Banksy tribute appeared anywhere online, including , but so far nothing. Earlier in the fall, HOT TEA created his largest site specific piece to date with over 1600 knots and 800 pieces of yarn installed on the Williamsburg Bridge walkway. You can see the installation in the video below:

Top two photos: collabcubed. All others courtesy .

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Click to enlarge Minneapolis-based street artist-and NYC frequenter-HOT TEA is known for his yarn-bombing typography, usually found on-but not limited to-chain link fences & telephone poles. Most often the words HOT TEA are geometrically spelled out, seemingly interlocked in three dimensions. I've run into several of his pieces over the past couple of years around...

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Drawing with string.

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Click to enlarge Tokyo-based textile artists Mana Morimoto hand-stitches black and white photographs with colorful thread to create a unique, somewhat surreal effect. Her love of geometric shapes, embroidery, and weaving all come together in a self-described "creepy and funny" contemporary style. Morimoto enjoys the idea of combining digital and analog in her work.

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Interesting way of mark making

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Matt Reilly of Japanther performs live skateboard painting at Mana Contemporary on May 6th, 2014

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i think this is a really, really lovely exhibit. it has a lovely theme and visual identity its playful and interactive and incorporates lots of interactivity.

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Studio Matthews | Bezos Center for Innovation

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The Bezos Center for Innovation at Seattle's Museum of History and Industry features 5,000 square feet of exhibits which tell a story of science, design, and technology through a sense of place. Exhibits include an 360-degree immersive timeline of Northwest innovation and a 9-feet-high graphic novel depicting stories of Seattle's global pioneers, including Boeing, Starbucks, and Amazon.

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Shows that museum attractions can and should be sustainable.

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For this exhibition about human impact on the world's oceans, we developed one of the most sustainably designed permanent exhibitions in the UK. Almost every material in the gallery is either recycled or reclaimed, and it was built with sustainable construction methods.

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Thought provoking interactive displays. the aim was to involve the audience and make the experience personal and relate to them in made them think about themselves. i think this is a great idea for interactive museums as it helps to give a experience or message that the audience will hopefully think about outside of the museum and is more likely to get them to engage with the exhibit and not just be passive.

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Does London really need another museum? Who are museums for, anyway? The Museum Of was an influential series of five pop-up museums housed in former bargehouse in central London that explored these questions and invited visitors to contribute their own voice to the discussion.

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I love the simplicity in the interactive activities and the clear good design and aesthetic appeal and the inviting and playfulness of them.

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We conceived and designed this pop-up space for the first-ever Seattle Design Festival, held in September 2011. A series of playful, low-tech interactives invite visitors to contribute their ideas about design and Seattle, including writing an enormous, communal letter to the city.

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they had up a roll of paper encouraging people to draw. the drawings were mainly from children and i noticed that most adults only wrote on the paper as many feel more comfortable writing a message than drawing and also many didn't know what to draw.

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me and Cindy went to see the museum and look at what existing interactive features they have. the most interactive room was the nature/animal room however most activities were aimed at young children and many weren't noticeable. The temporary children's tv show exhibit was a lot more interactive and engaging and i especially liked the theme tune quiz.

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How a large gallery has made the museum experience interactive. http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/transforming-the-art-museum-experience-gallery-one-2/

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https://uk.pinterest.com/jesscolclough/finding-lines/