New portfolio

want to have a look to my new portfolio?



hope you like it!

birdie nam nam - Made by Joel

I found this great kids crafting website that looks completely different from all those crafting projects blogs. Made by Joel really makes a difference, design for kids!

I include myself in this collective so I tried out this necklace.



Next try will be to make one in the shape of the Eames House Bird.


image via vitra

Nova fliegt zum Mond

Currently listening on a crafty saturday!

http://www.novafliegtzummond.de/



by the way, summer is over...

Triángulos

having empty golden chains in a box is just boring!

in Spanish: TRIÁN-GU-LOS

gifts

What is travelling to my friend Colet from platform 79-the berlin project? I couldnt be there but I hope this will make you feel better!

Makerhood St.Pauli

This is an awesome logo design by Alexander Ertle using this font.







Makerhood St.Pauli is an online community for all makers in the St.Pauli district in Hamburg.

White Birthday+Monki

My Birthday Party in Berlin invitation.



And today I woke up to get this package at my door, so even if it wasn't actually a present, it felt the right way!



and you know what? it snowed!! thank you, Berlin!

Michael Sontag F/W Preview

Berlin Fashion Week is almost over and now you have very few days to see the video of Michael Sonntag´s F/W 2012-13 Preview.

The music is dreamy and misteriuos. I love it, and no, it has nothing to do with the fact it has been composed by Erik Levander, one of my first friends here in Berlin and great support of my messy life in this heart-eating city.



You can imagine how this collection is appealing to me, geometries are (and will always be) part of mi imaginario personal.

Soon I´ll be posting the photos I did at the MBFWB and I hope I can also post the photos I was made for the Grazia Magazine. I saw some other girl-blogger who was making photos of me too, so if you´re that blogger and you read this post, please send!

happy new year!!

My Little Architect has welcomed the new year in Berlin, the sky by night was was full of fireworks and it was impressive!

To start the year properly, mylittlearchitect is featured in an awesome webshop, I AM THE LAB, where you can enjoy a 15% discount!

What will happen in 2012? Lots of necklaces, for sure!

Interview with granvía 3. Vigo

Let's make a break over Berlin to speak about a nice spanish girl-designer. Some months ago I found the stand of María from granvía3 at a fleamarket in Cádiz. It was actually the first time I spoke to a handcrafter! With her I have finally learned the first rule of a photographer: Never go out without your camera! So unfortunately I don't have photos of the encounter...
Her stand flashed to me among all the rest for its nice shapes and materials. Her necklaces and accesories are sold in many places around Spain and Europe. I find them really classy and elegant as well as easily wearable in any occasion.
She has been kind enough to answer some questions for My Little Architect.




MLA: Could you tell us a bit of yourself and your background and how you came to design your own accesories? How long have you been working on GranVia3?

granvia3: It was almost by chance I became an accessories designer. After getting the degree on Business Law, I went to London to study Fashion at the London College of Fashion, it was there when I realised how enjoyable it was the Fashion Business! Fortunately, when I was back in Spain, Bimba&Lola was about to open its first shop and I was one of the shoes designers, incredible job, I learnt a lot of things! After a couple of years, I moved on to Mango in Barcelona to work in the same department. Not even one year ago, I decided to create my own brand, granvía3, focused on creating accessories (headpieces, jewellery and scarves) which most of them are made to measure. The final client can choose the colour, the material, …


MLA: What do you enjoy most when working on your designs?

granvia3: I really enjoy making pieces which I can wear, I never design anything that I don´t like. This is something difficult when you work for a big company as you need to adapt to its profile, but when I started this business I wanted to enjoy so I try to make nice things all the time!

MLA: Do you produce your designs yourself ?

granvia3: We try to focus on the handcraft work, so each piece which is made to measure is developed on the studio, every headpiece is made to measure so we try, sew, cut, add and try again until the piece is ready for the customer. On the other hand, for the jewellery is different, as this is not made to measure, we buy the materials from different suppliers in Europe, then we develop the sample on the studio and then, we work with different Spanish suppliers who produce a number of articles exactly as the sample approved on the studio.




MLA: Which difficulties do you find in promoting your creations?

granvia3: I guess starting up a business is difficult! They said: “Who are you?” “Why should I buy your accessories if I don´t know you?” Where do you sell? Then, someone buys your accessories and advertising by the word of mouth is very powerful! It was difficult to show the brand to the people, it was difficult to get the first stockist and I think I still have a long difficult way… However, after one year, things are getting easier.


MLA: Where do you find your inspirations? Do you have any idols?

granvia3: Maybe it is a topic, but I like to look at real life, a film (or more than one! I find a great inspiration from the cinema!). Usually I ask my friends what they like or would like to wear and don´t find, sometimes I test them to check if the collection is commercial! Because sometimes, designers tend to do impossible things!
I also like travelling to see what is going on in different cities, I go to fairs to see the new staff from the suppliers and so on.
Idols? Do you mean designers? I love following the fashion shows, each season you find new designers, new themes,… And each season I find a new favourite designer.


MLA: Any plans for the future concerning your designs? And what about dreams?

granvia3: I love my job, I spend most of the time creating new pieces for the collection or for clients, discovering new materials, colours, speaking with the team how to develop a new idea, … I would like to keep doing this and become a bigger team.



Find out more about granvia3 here.

Thanks for helping me to make the first interview of My Little Architect!

BIG BIG BIG friends

My Little Architect is now happily sponsoring this awesome blog and shop, BIG BIG BIG Things.

Have a look!

in Berlin. Meet some more friends.

near KOW Berlin - KOW!




me Collectors Room Berlin - ME!

in Berlin. Oh Land

Tonight I was at the concert of Oh Land and I enjoyed it sooo much. I was standing on the first line, in the middle, and I couldn't have had a better place! And of course I forgot my camera, so I could only get some shots with the iphone.



The music took me back to February, when My Little Architect wasn't still born and I was feeling so depressed I couldn't even go out of bed before one o'clock in the evening.

Tonight I had the chance to speak to Nanna, and thanked her for her music, because it took me out of bed and got me doing something nice and magical like the project of My Little Architect.

I gave her my card and I she said she would have a look at my work. I really wish she likes it, because she is part of it too.

in Berlin. The Berg

I'm really enjoying this project by Mila. It's one of the first things I found out when I had just arrived to Berlin and it still amazes me each time I think about it.

The Berg

What would happen if we all imagine a gigantic mountain located at the highly historical airport of Tempelhof? It will start existing! Of course! How couldn't it?



The video is a great example of the trashy berlin easthetics and it's just brilliant!

Wolf and Moon

Please, Wolf and Moon, we need you to re-stock the Chevron Point necklace!





Some more great (really great) necklaces:





And while writing this post, this little marvel is coming home con mamá!



I decided to take a brooch so I can place it on a hat, on a turbant, on a chain...

can't wait!

in Berlin. Meet some friends

Outside, in Kreuzberg.





Inside, at Qubique Berlin.


Hi Ho Rocking Horse by Jarrod Lim Design.


These friends are more abstract but fun just the same. 3:1 Table by TJOKEEFE.


Heike Buchfelder's kugel k lamp.


making friends is easy...

in Berlin. Hello Monki!

Hello Monki! The world of the Monkis, creepy and cute at the same time, has finally come to me.

All the way from the North, this little beauty just arrived to Berlin to be my warmest friend! I'll need a great dose of color to survive to the coldest winter of my life...

lookbooks, packaging, community, interiors... one could live in Monki, if you dare to deal with their little black mean-looking monsters...

in Berlin. Henrik Vibskov

This have been the two first weeks of my little architect in Berlin. As the reason to be here is work there was not much time to go around.

Last saturday was the first day of real hanging around and right after stepping out of the bus I saw Henrik Vibskov's pop up store.

They were truly simpáticos (if you check the dictionary you'll see that's quite a nice word) and I think the guy really liked my business card (ego).

So, only 73 days to visit again for amazing clothes (now 7 less 'cause I have had not a single minute to make this post). I liked the space, balanced and backed-up with objects. I hope to have some time to pas by again










When I innocently looked at his website and realised how great was the man...On the other side, had I known, I wouldn't have dared to get my camera and ask for permission so easily!

click for his online shop:





Anyway, I find his art collaborations dark and disturbng but so attracting at the same time...





See you soon for a post on Qubique, Berlin's furniture tradeshow which I have visited today.

My little Architect's store opening!!

From Berlin with love,

Wo bin ich?

Where am I? Correct!

Berlin!




Soon all the news about the new collection.

Give time please!